The Future of Social Media in Grade School As we've been reading about the increasing use of social media in higher education, I've also started thinking about how this trend may impact primary education. It is no secret that many teenagers have traditional social media accounts, regardless of age restrictions or platform policies. Social media includes a wide range of tools, such as blogs and wikis, media-sharing platforms like YouTube, social networking sites such as Facebook and LinkedIn, and communication tools like email and Zoom (Zgheib & Dabbagh, 2020). As a former elementary and middle school teacher, I frequently used tools like YouTube and classroom blogs to engage students with content. At the time, I never really thought of those tools as forms of social media. This course has broadened my understanding of social media. I have started to wonder how far educators can go as schools increasingly incorporate social media into teaching and learning. I did a little r...
