Tech Toolkit #3

Tech Toolkit #3  

Today more than one billion people use Facebook, and the majority of students who have Facebook is uncountable and the way they are familiar with this website is unbelievable, so why not turn Facebook into educational website?

Teachers can create a Facebook classroom where students can discuss their class work and help each other, and not just that Facebook classroom would be so helpful for students who missed the class for logical reasons, therefore they don’t have to ask the teacher for the homework they’ve missed, but they can get read the class discussions to understand the lesson, get feedback from the teacher, and then do their work and bring it to class the next day.  

Teachers can also use Facebook to communicate with the students who are generally shy in the classroom, who don’t like to raise their hands to answer a questions or ask a questions. And they can do that by asking students to post their work on Facebook and tag their classmates to get feedback, in that manor all students would participate because students are now using Facebook all the time and writing a post is the easiest thing to them. Also parents can participate in Facebook classroom because they will access to the classroom and see the post that their kids are posting, therefore parents will know how their children are doing in school without calling the teacher every day.

Through Facebook teachers have the ability to create events and share it with students therefor they can get responses on who will be coming and who’s not. They can also make a group chat where students share ideas and discuss homework. Also instead of wasting lots of papers trying to give permission slips, teachers can save tree and just post the fieldtrip information on Facebook, send them to parents and get their permission through Facebook message.

Facebook can be missed used, and students can bully each other in Facebook, play games, and read useless posts and funny pictures, but future teachers can make it also useful to website for kids to learn, communicate with one another, get feedback, and help each other, it’s just matter of introducing educational ways for kids to use Facebook to learn, and for teachers to benefit from it.