Social media has changed learning because knowledge is just a click away. I remember when I first had small research projects in elementary school we would still have to find books for our research. I have siblings that use the internet for all of the sources and maybe the textbook used in the class. No longer spending hours in a public library trying to find the right book. They can literally find the information on most of their cell phones.
I feel like social media can distract children. There is so much fake news that is put out, it makes it difficult to know what real. I as an adult sometimes find myself getting caught up in the next fake new or new article that went viral. The biggest thing we need to work on now is making sure that we start to teach more related to social media younger and how to combat fake new.
Social media is the future, despite its flaws. I think the best we can do is trying to stay up to date and teach way to weed out the flaws.
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