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My position towars internet and social media is entirely positive. Our students communicate using social media and educators should use social media to fill the generation gap with our students. The Internet has radically changed the world in terms of communication .... Education can't but take advantage from the opportunities it offers.

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The social media gives great opportunities for both teachers and students. It can help motivate students, communicate and make international projects not leaving the classrooms. But I agree with whom says that we have to teach young people to use it responably and in a polite way. Netiquette is really important!

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Opportunities for our students become limitless as the world becomes networked. Students should be taught of social media and responsible use. Teachers should embrace social media and use them with their students. Dangers are in the distractions from learning objectives.

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social media are foundamental for informal education, since they provide huge information. The element to point at is the ability of educators to usee this opportunitiy to develop the sense of criticism among students and the consequent ability of making choices

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Social media has penetrated all aspects of our life, so we, as educators, are bound to use it effectively in and out of classroom. I assume the possibilities of social media for education are unlimited. The only things that limit them are purpose and responcibility.

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Social media provides students informal learning environment wich enriches their knowldge however, the danger at this point is they may not be able to eliminate rifht and wrong information. furthermore, students cannot manage their time for using social media. Mostly, they spend too much time!

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loose important time learning but also you became modern.

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Communicate, connect, create and share content. YouTube, Wikipedia, Blogging

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Las redes sociales son buenas porque amplian la comunicación, pero hay que saber utilizarlas.

Para el trabajo. a veces, son un arma de doble filo. El linkedin muy bien, pero lo que se publica de facebook no siempre es lo adecuado para que lo vean en el mundo laboral.

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Many teachers are still very traditional and are affaird of the reversed hierarchy that comes with social media. Fear can paralyse and prevent change, this is what I see in teachers I meet. Anyone taking part in this course is open to learning and adopting new ways of teaching. The challenge is to reach teachers who will not even consider change. We can no longer ignore social media it is now a part of life therefore we must embrace all the possibilities it can offer education.

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In my class I use a class blog, a virtual class on Edmodo and Twitter and another digital tools. My students (7-8 years old) are very incentivised on their studies and improve their collaboration and partecipation on class work, otherwise parents are very happy that their children improve motivation and engagement on school activities. I hope this way of use social media helps children to increase the critical thinking against Internet and social media.

Social media are a great tool for teachers too. They help to connect teachers of different cities and nations, to enroll courses and webinars for improve their own educational skills and their own professional training.​

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I teach English as a foreign language ans social media are a gret partner to connect with European cultures

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Social media are good for education if we do proper use of them. We can connect with several educational pages and take ideas for improving our teaching. We can be members in sevelar groups and get informed about seminars that take place all over the world. Children can discover games that they like and through them to teach maths or physics for example. But as everything in life there are disadvantages too. The most important disadvantage is that through social media many kids are abused by adults. Except that there is bullying. Finally, another disadvantage is that kids don t have the critical ability to decide which information is reliable and which is not.

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There are both good and bad sides in social media. On the side of the negatives is the amount of social media information that we are attacked with. Information which is neither healthy nor developing. On the other hand there are the benefits that arise from the possibility of reaching experts and solving problems within seconds. We have constant contact with our students whish is good but also this means that we are sometimes expected to react instantly despite the fact that we are not at work 24/7/365...

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Social media has already a huge impact on education.We use Edmodo in our school, which is a free teacher-student social Platform, like a school "Facebook" but all geared towards education , and without the drawbacks of Facebook, such as direct messaging between students, which could lead to bullying.As the teache ris fully in charge,it allows collaboration uunder control and social interaction online.This had a huge impact of how we teach now, as Learning continues outisde the classroom too. Dangers I see with social media are cyber bullying and the disctraction they provide,the constant need to post,check the feeds.

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To a point social media is wonderful but it does contain some drastic knock on effects in or children's lives. For example the trend of online bullying has led to a higher level of depression in youth and to suicidal thoughts and unfortunately has led in some cases to teenagers taking their lives. it has proved very difficult to police due to the sheer enormity of the internet. Nevertheless social media is an unreversable revolution that will stay with us now and we must adapt to it to make it a safe and secure place for children to use correctly. From a communications point of view social media is a fantstic way for educators and their pupils to be in contact and to produce and highlight fantastic pieces of work.

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It is true that social media started as a revolution and soon turned into a fad due to its open access worldwide. I believe it is upon education of the masses to turn them into effective tools.

Taking advantage of its basic characteristics educators can use them to have a quick access of communication and collaboration with their students. As long as netiquette and internet safety rules are taught first, social media could aim at making the best of our time with our students since the time at school is limited. I have been using closed facebook groups for project work as an innovative or reverse hierarchy way of communication and collaboration, off the school walls, which makes my teen students more enthusiastic to participate.

Thus, its up to thinking individuals and lifelong learning educators to make the best of social media instead of cutting off the habit or the addiction

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I use Facebook with my students we have a class group and it's like a virtual classroom but as they are always connected with Facebook so, they are always in our classroom!!!

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I used facebook to create closed groups in which claasrooms could upload and share their materials.

For students and parents it was amazing, especially because they realized what opportunity facebook was for educational reasons and not simply for chatting or uploading photos and comments.

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Social media is like a blade. If we can use it for education it can be perfect but sometimes teens and people waste too much time on it. Everything is on social media. But i create a group on Facebook with my students and share our thoughts about science, problems, lesson needs etc.

But i have spend my time more. I can not do it at school because of time constraints, i have to make this thing when im home and weekend.

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As part of our 21rst century lives, Social media have positive and negative aspects. We all know that our students, especially at the ages from 10 and more..., use them much more than we do. It is in our hand to motivate students to use them carefully in order to communicate, collaborate and share ideas.

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The social media gives great opportunities for both teachers and students. It can help motivate students, communicate and make international projects not leaving the classrooms etc., but the danger is not to oversetimate the role of social media in education.

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We are surrounded by social media. It's such a powerful tool that it requires lots of care when dealing with it, because at the same time as it's giving us lots of opportunities to communicate and collaborate, sharing ideas, etc., it's also tricky, due to its side-effects. In fact we run the risk of overexposure, of losing privacy and safety, among many other "dangers" we aren't even aware of. So, while dealing with social media, we have to be very careful and responsible.

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Social media is part of our lives and we have to learn to live with it. I think it's a good thing for education. It enables students to  exchange ideas and opinions, gives them the opportunity  to share information and work in international projects, it engages them in their learning and motivates them to learn more. Of course,there are also disadvantages and students must be aware of them, especially in what concerns privacy issues and overexposure to this media.

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As everything around us, so with the Social media requires right use. To do this, requires education. Education for safety use, personal data, communication, ideas for creative use. Otherwise a great tool in the hands of our students will become a tool for wasting time.

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Social media plays an important role in modern life. Our students are very active users of it. They can't imagine their lives without it. So our goal is to make social media work for us. It helps to implement the projects, find the information, share it. The social media gives great opportunities for both teachers and students. It can help motivate students, communicate and make international projects not leaving the classrooms etc., but the danger is not to oversetimate the role of social media in education. The balance is essential.

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Social media is very useful in education. In some manner, all teachers are using social media now. Some use it to its full potential and others are still afraid with the problems of privacy or sharing information with others. If used correctly it helps collaboration and allows students to participate in a more active learning.

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I see Social Media as a great advantage for everybody who is looking for a job and wants to have information on a future employer. This person can find pretty much everything from 'formal' type of information to 'informal', such as current employee's opinion on this particular job, job's  drawbacks and much more.

For a teacher, Social Media is a great source of information on  topics that are currently popular among his/her students, so that he/she can communicate in an up to date language. Also, a teacher can teach the students how to use Social Media responsibly, which is I think the most important role of a teacher in this case.

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Advantages: unique opportunities to communicate, share, learn, give advice (to mention only the most important)

Disadvantages: personal data may be retrieved and used to damage the individual.

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As for everything on internet there are positive and negative aspects of social media, it is of course the use of them that needs to be careful and always controlled. They can be used in different ways: to learn, to communicate, to share, to collaborate etc.

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Our student use social media, so we must develop their awarness if its full potencial as well as train them to think and act in a way to keep their own privacy and safety. In my courses the social madia - YouTube, Google, Wikis, Facebook, etc. take its regular place, especially in collaborative work. Although this, I dont like when my students use it for chating with friend outside of the learning activities.

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Social media can be both, depending on how you use it. Its a tool to get / keep in touch with others and to publish for others. Garbage in = garbage out, somewhat. But can also be used constructively for learning and communication.

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I like social media a lot and I use it everyday, more than my students :)

I agree with whom says that we have to teach young people to use it responably and in a polite way. Netiquette is really important!

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The opportunities that social media offers are : a better communication , share and receive easier informations , create groups of work for different activities . The dangers are : spending too much time with it ,the possibility that some students not to use social media constructively .

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I think that we as teachers must teach our students an aware use of social media, starting from the ones they use in their everyday life. Developing digital competencies means to be aware of eSafety as well

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It is true. We live in a social world in which everything is put on display and made known to the whole world. I think that this thing is not always positive! In my class I speak with my students on this subject and I organized courses for them. We are often unaware of what can be accessed if every moment of our life is posted on facebook , twitter , instagram ... I agree with the use of social but we have to be always very very careful!

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Social media has proved to be more a distraction than means of collaboration and communication in my classes. That's why I prefer social learning platforms specially designed for education.

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Students use social media a lot of times in a day. I think teachers have to recommend a responsible use, looking for an integration to classroom life

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today social media are very used by students, but not everyone know how to use social constructively.

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Social media is all around us, as Ollie described. So, most of our students already use social media to their personal life. What we can do as teachers, is to integrate social media to our classroom (e.g. have students voting or commenting to a class’s blog, sharing resources, sharing ideas, collaboration among students). On the other hand, we are responsible for the e-safety of our students. We must protect them from dangers (e.g. cyberbullying, time waste, privacy invasion) and get them use social media with the appropriate way.

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I think that students spontaneausly use social media just to share pictures and similar things. Teachers must show them other uses of social media, to share material, for example. Students must be educated in using social media, because social media are part of their world and teachers can not ignore this.

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The expansion of social media is an opportunity which hides a risk. It is an opportunity because you can get in touch with people all around the world so you can to cultivate your interests and discuss with others who think the same way you do. The risk is that your personal information can be used to collect data about you in ways you are not aware of.

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Before it was said that audience şs important for students and teachers.And social media provide us to large our audience.And a teacher can communicate with her/hir students or collegues in social media.I think that using social media in educatin is a good thing.I use Linkedin,Twitter,Slideshare ,Swarm and facebook and they give me more information about what other people Of course I can find help about a subject with my social media accounts.

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i think social media , if used in the proper way , can be a useful resource to be in touch with people all over the world. some of my students told me that we use only the 9% of the internet web , the most is dark and forbidden . they highlighted that most of the web is hidden as it is used in an illegitimate way. i do not know if it is true o not, but , wat's important , is that young people are aware of the dark side of Internet.

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Collaboration and communication increase and develop through social media. Students can see what children from other countries or cities experience and can be inspired by thier thoughts. The only problem is that they become exposed and vulnerable by giving that many details of their lives.

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I agree with Marina from Croatia that for teacher there are lots of groups or pages for communicate and exchange materials and experience, but some pupils are addicted on Facebook and that is not good at all.

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I use social media and I think they are a wonderful way to communicate, sharing ideas and collaborate with others.

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Social Media has become an amazing tool! For us and for our students. Module 4 ended talking about values. I think that is the break point. Tools are there, it just depends on how we use them. We must teach values through Social Media. I think it is wonderful to communicate, collaborate, have access and an audience. Social Media is a powerful tool!

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THe benefits with social media in education is the possibility ti disseminate everything you want to, you can share, cooperate, learn and network very easy, it allows us to communicate with anyone we need to/want to and ut unites people. The dangers are that the students can accidentally meet an unserious adult and/or they can also be unlucky and not getting any answers.

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I use social media for professional reasons and for socializing. It's a great tool

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I agree with Ollie.

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I agree with Ollie when he said the entire internet has become social. I like social media... It's opportunity for all of us. Despite all the negative aspects of the internet (cyber bullying, security, digital footprint, ...)  social networks are an excellent opportunity for educating citizenship values in our students.

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It`s not good for students that their whole life is on the Facebook but for teacher there are lots of groups or pages for comunicate and exchange materials and experiance

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Social media is all arround us. For education, as for our lives it has good and bed things. The good thing is that it gives visibility to our work, alow us to share and learn, is easy to use, and keep us toghether just whid a click. The bad thig is that it exposes us.

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Poor Internet connectivity insufficient number of computer access.

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I use social media to comunicate and collaborate with my students.

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I love that everybody really has a voice today but as that is we need to choose our word vicely.

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I agree with Ollie when he said the entire internet has become social. Despite all the negative aspects of the internet (ciberbullying, security, digital footprint, ...)  social networks are an excellent opportunity for educating citizenship values in our students.

All of them are already in one or more social networks so the more informed they are of the dangers and opportunities they are facing, the better they will be able to protect themselves and to develop important skills for their future.

For education, social media can be very useful in finding information, communicating and taking learning beond the classroom.

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Social media has a big role in everday life and it is often very useful but there is also a possibility of dangers (privacy etc.).

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Social media have quite an influence on I'd say everybody nowadays. I think they are on one side an important source of information that we can use on our classrooms, they can promote collaborative work and they can also provide a wide audience to the work our students develop. Of course there are dangers associated with lack of privicy, confusing virtual and reality, etc.

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Social media are powerful means of information and communication used consistently by all in their free time, especially by young people to communicate and document the everyday. This exposes them to serious danger, because in most cases he is unprepared and incurs the violation of privacy, into passivity, depersonalization. The school must make an interpreter of reality, decode it to guide the younger generation to decode and to orientate themselves in a world that is more virtual than real, preparing the younger generation to work more and more "social". In my work I do not use social networks because my students are under age, but I always try to educate young people to make responsible use of the web.

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I think Social Media are really useful on education as great source of information and as a way to promote collaborative learning. They also help to build our personal branding in order to get a job. Losing our privacity is one of the dangers associated with their use. We must manage them responsibly.

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I believe in the power of social media and I have experience of it in my private and professional life. But for young students the situation is a little bit more complicated. This year I'd like to share with them documents with dropbox and similare and I'd like to use Edmodo that is similar to facebook in its working.

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It is very good to use social media , I use them especially to share materials or to inform people about some plans. But the problem is that sometimes a bad use of social media can be done which could have negative results.We have many many examples not onle about education but about life generally.

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I use social media to share educational material, profile and so on.

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I believe in the power of social media and I have experience of it in my private and professional life. But y students are too young and I cannot use social media with them yet..we can just share files and documents with Dropbox or similar.

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I'm starting using social media with my students.

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Social media is good thing because we can be in touch with our students 24/7.

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Social media is now part of everyday modern life. We live in a world with all sorts of new tools to communicate, as well as a new vocabulary. Social media is a uniquely powerful tool to help students collaborate and stay connected. Teachers can foster a sense of community through simple tactics such as building a student Twitter list, using a course-specific hashtag, creating a Pinterest board for sharing course-related content, and setting up class Facebook groups.

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Our students even from an early age are using social media at home to communicate with their friends. Social media can make learning fun. Students can discuss topics, vote, upload their work and make comments on their class blog. It gives them an audience. Teachers also have to teach them about their digital footprint and how to act appropriately online.

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Today social media is very important part of society. Our students are constantly on Facebook, Twitter and other social websites.  Social media can be a useful tool. The teaching process is more effective if it contributes to the participant's active involvement, discussions, exchange of experience. But we also have to be very responsible about posting information on Internet.

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I'm enthusiastic about the educational relevance of social media. I have a whatsapp group for each of my classes, and students write me to ask homework, help or just to have a little fun. I also have a second Facebook profile, where students can find materials, videos, etc. Ah! I teach English and, of course, all converstions must be in English!

As for the dangers, I always ask for the parents' permission, and students aren't allowed to write bad words or share unfair things.

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Social media has a great impact on education. Collaboration and sharing anything with teachers and between pupils form all around the world is an incredible support for the future of the world. You can change anything with social media, it is a big factory. Users should be a good internet citizen. That should be thought in schools and families.

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Social media can be used as tools for teaching and learning, but must take into account the age of the students. There are rules and also rights for our students and they should know about and must learn to respect them.......... For young students it's very important that teachers activate a collaboration with parents and encourage the sharing between parents and children know and how do use the media social; this is important also to be aware and no how to protect themselves. I use Edmodo; the possibility to post messages, collaborate and share ideas, resources, etc .. makes it similar to Facebook, and this encourages participation. The teacher can then build with students the rules for a good use of the social environment, but he has to become a careful moderator and tutor

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Since students are already using social media away from the classroom, integrating it into the classroom helps students learn best practices for social media and offers an interesting new twist on lessons.

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Social media are a fantastic tool, when used by fantastic people.

As every other tool, it's important to know how it works and what are its pros & cons, its dangers. And most of all - like everywhere in communication - it's important to be good-willing communicators.

My experience with social media (mostly FB, but also youtube, Pinterest, Google +...) it's very good: it improved my work ideas, I've been knowing lots of people with my own interests, sharing ideas, tips, opinions on things I can use in everyday life.

But I also am aware of dangers. I've eliminated What'sUp, for instance, because the people I was linked to used it in a very stupid way. And just this week in my class some pupil had not his/her own homework done because "other mums in whats'up said that was not on the notebook"... Unfortunately, people is becoming more and more unable to talk each other looking into another's eyes and prefer to send short messages.

I think that we must be aware that EVERYTHING in our world (and in the universe) is COMMUNICATION and that the most important thing to learn is how to communicate well.

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The social media can be used as tools by educators depending on the students' age. There are rules and our students must be taught to respect them. There are dangers they must be aware of and we have to teach them how to protect themselves. But there are also rights our students should know about. The social media can have an impact on someone's life and they create opportunities. Who can better teach all these to the children if not us,their teachers?

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Twitter has given me the opportunity to enlarge my personal learning network and to keep up to date. I know that FB could do the same, but I don't like the overwhelming personal use of it. I would like to complete my Linkedin profile (I simply registered) because I'm realizing its growing importance in the professional field. I have used for ages a site for publishingpics of my travels and I'm moving to Flikr. I would like to have the opportunity to use these tools at school also to teach my young pupils a responsible use of social media.

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Social media are an important way to share opinions and ideas with Others, but we must use it as a responsible people.

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Social media can find his we in primary schools, but under guidenance of teachers and parents. Both had to tekae their responsalility to work in an e-safe environement.

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Social media can be useful to get in touch, share opinions and ideas. There are also groups related to specific topic. However people should pay attention on what is uploaded in terms of privacy and dangers of hackers. Students sometimes use social network to post their written tests at school or pictures and videos without permission. I have never used any social network to communicate with my students, first of all because of their age, but I'm thinking to create a blog.

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There are many people, among them there are also teachers, who believe that social media are only useful for flirting. I believe that teachers and students should embrace new technologies and benefit from them. I regularly use Blogger and facebook in my classroom. I think edmondo, which is social media alike is a great tool. Twitter and LinkedIn connect me with other teachers all around the world, who have the same interests with me. I can communicate, publish, comment, share, collaborate. It is a huge educational tool.

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In the common social media as facbook I have found a lot of interesting thing in specific group about education.

It's a good way to have the possibily to be in touch with people all over the world but kids often use this new way of comunication in the worst way they could use.

So it's necessary a specific education in using social media to develop personal possibility and not to waste time

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Social media can be used in education to share our pupils' work and to collaborate with partners on projects but we have to be careful on which data we can share online.

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Social media are new tools of comunication. Like all tools can be used well or badly. Their introduction in the educational process must be done carefully. It is also necessary here to lead students to a proper use. We are always teaching us that we must EDUCATE

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Giving our students the opportunity of sharing comments and ideas, rating a learning activity or the result of a project, expressing their comments is good because this way they learn to be more critical and they become the protagonists of their learning process. The risk perhaps is that they focus more on the opportunity to say something critical towards the other people than to reflect about themselves. Every social media needs a moderator who prevents the participants in a discussion from saying something rude or not acceptable. So if a teacher wants to use social media with his class, he has to become a good and careful moderator. And this is a tough role which demands efforts and time! There should be also a strict guideline where it should be explained what is acceptable and what is not in posting comments.

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Social media has good and bad sides. I think it is important to take what you can use in education and to avoid bad things. To teach students to think responsibly what they do, post on internet sites.

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I will quote Ollie: "Social Media isn't a fad, it's a fundamental shift in the way we communicate". Since I teach Italian Language, I think it is important to make our students aware of this new way of communicating. This is the first step. Social Media has deepened so much that we can't pretend to work as educators ignoring its impact on society.

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Social media are a good tool for education. They give a lot of opportunity and they can be dangerous. It is as always a matter of citizenship education.

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The power of Social Media is too big to be ignored. We need to master the basics of these tools to learn, teach, collaborate, share. We have no other option than  to take the power over social media if we want to be up-to-date with our pupils. One of my biggest challenges with the pupils is to empower them, which means they must be helped understand the different functions and possibilities in using social media. They need to become actors who can evolve in safe use of these tools, because many of my pupils unconsciously suffer from refrained anxiety as they do not really know how to secure their photos, comments; they sometimes ask questions about what happens in the Cloud with past comments…. Pupils’ empowerment is really important to me as an educator.

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The good thing is it definitly gives us the posibility to get to know, to work together and learn from and to students and teachers from all over the world.

The bad thing is that comunication by social media leads to miscommunication and interpretation. Humans communicate most by non-verbal communication. It is the way we say something, combined with what we say. Students tend to communicate more by social media, without understanding that their message could be read in another way than they intended it. The use of emoticons can't replace bodylanguage.

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Does the use of a wide variety of tools make a good carpenter? Did television sets or phones help me to learn quicker and more efficiently? Of course not. Social media may be used for any purpose one can imagine but it has nothing to do with education, arts and sciences. I would say they are more about consuming time and products and less about exchanging educational ideas/material. It would make no difference to me as an ICT tutor if they didn't exist.

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The evolution of social media has changed the way how social interactions are enacted and has also empowered people to become publishers and share their ideas online.  The social media evolution has also had an impact on our educational system.   Today students from an early age are already using social media at home to communicate with their friends.  This can lead to misuse of the tools available to communicate which could lead to serious problems.  I think it is crucial to discuss with students from an early age how social media can be used appropriately.

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It is beneficial, because people have the possibility to write to each other, share opinions, learn from each other's experience, but it can be dangerous because of exposure and too much transparency.

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Social media is definitely a good tool as regards educational opportunities since it provides the facilities  to make digital learning content easily accessible to our students. Considering that students are spending a lot of time on a variety of social media, facilities to share educational content on these social networks will facilitate distribution of learning content. The fact that social media offers students the facilities to, like, vote  and rate things they meet on the web ensures that they engage with the content since they need to evaluate it. Moreover since social media also offers commenting facilities, this ensures that learners are actively involved in the creation of more digital content since they are being given a voice and have not remained merely passive content consumers. The ease with which students’ work can be published using social media such as blogs, provides and easily accessible global audience and creates a meaningful context for students to become publishers of content. Collaboration facilities offered by social media enabled learners to collaborate with other learners worldwide and thus become exposed to a variety of opinions and perspectives. The dangers of social media can be addressed if critical thinking and evaluations competences are nurtured in learners so that they realise that the fact that content can be so easily uploaded online has resulted in the uploading of content which may not be accurate or trustworthy. Another danger is an addiction to social media which learners may develop and the misuse of social media such as in the case of cyberbullying. However once again this will required the development of personal and social development skills which we all need to develop in our everyday life, and not only in our virtual life.

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I'm an english language teacher and I use social media while teaching English. I think, using social media is really important for improving my pupils' levels.