Social Media in the Classroom

Abstract

There is no shortage of warnings about how teachers should not befriend their students on social media or share potentially damaging photographs. Teachers or schools may have policies about the ways that teachers or students can connect online. A survey of educators on Twitter found that a small percentage (16–17%) of teachers use Twitter for in- or out-of-class activities for students, which may be due to the restrictions that schools place on the site (Carpenter & Krutka, 2014, p. 424).