Social Media Enters the Classroom

Although some forms of social media have helped schools enhance admissions, social media is taking on a new form: a learning tool.  The Social Media Classroom is a project that incorporates several social media tools into the learning process of students. That is not to say that it replaces student-teacher interaction, rather, it is said to enhance it.

According to the Social Media Classroom, the project is “a free and open-source web service that provides teachers and learners with an integrated set of social media that each course can use for its own purposes—[including] integrated forum, blog, comment, wiki, chat, social bookmarking, RSS, microblogging, widgets, and video commenting.” As social media becomes a more imminent part of peoples’ lives, different industries, including the most unconventional, will utilize these tools to facilitate their goals.