What Does Social Media Mean For Our Schools?
In our last post, we tackled the question, “What is social media?“
In that article, I shared a video with you that discussed “in plain English” what social media is and how it fundamentally works.
While the video does a good job of explaining the basic principles behind social media, it probably left you wondering, “What does all of this have to do with the education system and our schools?”
Well, I imagine it has more to do with our education system that we currently realize, but here are some of my thoughts and ideas pulled from the forementioned video.
The Linear Education Model Is Shot
It used to be that information was passed down a chain of command. The school administration would tell the teachers what to teach… and the teachers would then tell the students what they had to learn.
