Social Media and My Professional Journey

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In this 21^st century time of teaching and learning, social media and technology play such a large role in how we as educators teach and learn and how our students learn or even how they learn best. My journey throughout the last three months has shown me not only the importance of technology, but also many amazing ways it can be implemented into our classrooms. I learned that although it’s important to use technology, it’s more important to implement it safely and properly. It’s essential for students to understand their limitations and boundaries when it comes to the use of technology; and that’s where we as educators play a very influential role in their learning. I think using social media and technology in the classroom allows students to have amazing opportunities to connect with others, find resources from all over the world, share their talents, and discover things many students before them didn’t have the opportunity to do.

With the wants, needs, demands, and popularity of social media sights. The daily advancements in technology, and the students who thrive off it all … teaching, learning and educating will never be the same. Our world is running at a faster pace every year, and it’s up to us as educators to contribute meaningfully to our children and students learning by keeping up at the same pace. This course showed me that that is possible, and in the last three months I have grown and learned so much from my colleagues and educators around me.

Using Social Media in the Classroom