Today I read “TWITTER GOES TO COLLEGE” by Zach Miners. This is about how different professors at different colleges around the country are incorporating the social media site “Twitter” into their classrooms. Essentially “Twitter” uses 140 character maximum blurbs that can be viewed by anyone. This is easy for classrooms to use when they have too many people in the classroom. This allows the students to send in their opinion of the topic without being shut out by someone talking louder than them. It is also helpful for professors who want to keep up to date on topics that have something to do with the class. Though it is helpful, there is also criticism about how it decreases attention span and makes grammar…
People who have social media are able to control what they post which allows them to only post certain parts of their life online. Colleges would never know if they were seeing who a student really is because of their online personas. Because everyone changes as they mature, looking far back into somebody’s social media account could lead colleges to see parts of a person life that are very different from how they are now. With the amount of social media accounts that are available, colleges would have to look back through many different social media accounts which would take a long time. Using social media to vet students on all of their accounts would require an amount of time that most colleges could not fit into their admission process. If colleges could judge who their prospective and currents students are by face to face interaction instead of using online sources, they would be able to accurately see who those students really…
Students go to social media to express themselves their problems to their peers for a reason. They are not posting about harming themselves for no one to see, they are trying to get attention to themselves, it is their way of calling for help. When this privilege is taken away and kids are forced to not act themselves on social media and you are not going to see anybody seek help. “Schools need to respect boundaries and the First Amendment” (Wallace). Monitoring our every move makes us students feel like we are have no outlet to express our…
By blocking access to all social media, it can also block helpful ways of communication between students and teachers. By putting things in a social network perspective, students can use YouTube to learn about things inside their classroom. Computers and social media can become allies in the hands of a creative teacher. For example, I had a teacher in high school that used Twitter as a tool in her class. She used to tweet our homework, the things we did in class, and we had class discussions. The principal watched our tweets, and if we put anything that went beyond the school rules, we would not be able to use Twitter. This is a great tool for students and teachers to communicate other than Email. As teenagers and young adults, we use social media to communicate with others much more than email, phone calls, or appointments with the teacher.…
David Silver in Twitter Meets the Breakfast Club, explains different ways how twitter and social media are great ways to keep in touch with classmates and students as a professor at a school. According to David Silver, he used to warn his students to “Be, Careful” in the mid 1990’s warning students what they put on the world wide web is public, until his mind set changed when he started a twitter assignment with a class on history of television cooking shows called “Green-Media” (498). David Silver’s had students join twitter for many good reasons, one being that “Twitter accounts are public, for their professor, their classmates, and the larger twitter community to access their work” (Silver 498). This means that the class can easily interact…
Social Media Surveillance softwares allows the user to monitor and collect data post to social media sites like facebook and twitter, regardless of the device used to post. Surveillance softwares does have its benefits. For example, softwares increases the efficiency because of the automated surveillance and processing, is providing full analysis, and the capability to monitor all activity (Sungard,…
How can social media such as Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram have an effect on student athletes, their team and their school? Young adults and teenagers normally make a lot of mistakes on social media. Some normal mistakes they make are posting underage drinking, partying pictures, derogatory statements (that could be prejudice to different races, sexes, or people with a different sexual orientation) and inappropriate or revealing pictures. These mistakes could be magnified for student athletes due to how they are looked up to in their community or across the country. These mistakes can also effect the athlete’s reputation, their team’s reputation,…
Fleming provides example after example of how information provided by the user on MySpace and Facebook have ruined or altered people’s lives. Potential employers, law enforcement officials, colleges, universities, and others have used this information to help them with their decision-making regarding certain individuals. If the information available on site is not showing the individual in a positive light, the decisions made may be detrimental to the individual. She recognizes that colleges and universities across the nation offer practical tips for social media site users such as “Don’t post anything you wouldn’t be comfortable with your grandmother seeing.” (440) But she also understands that students are not following that advice. Fleming explains how difficult it is for colleges to keep an eye on their students’ online postings, and admits “there is no practical way for colleges to monitor the content of these sites, as students’ profiles and postings are changing constantly.” (440) Later in the article she justifies that reviewing a students’ profile page may be beneficial in providing clues to a person’s behavior. She concludes…
Reynol Junco, an associate professor of education at Iowa State University, found that while freshman struggle to balance their use, social media is less of a problem for upper classmen. The difference relates to self-regulation. Junco surveyed more than 1,600 college students about their Facebook behavior, looking at time spent strictly using the social networking site and time spent on Facebook while multitasking. Freshmen averaged a total of two hours a day. Sophomores, juniors and seniors also reported using Facebook while studying, but how it affected their grade point average varied. For freshmen, all Facebook use had a negative impact on their grades. For sophomores and juniors using Facebook while doing schoolwork hurt their GPA. For seniors, there was no relationship between the two. So the question is, is Facebook the problem? The answer is no, Facebook actually has little to do with students GPA. Facebook use is no different than any other distraction for students. Students just have to self regulated their time. Junco stated that freshmen, “come to college and they don't know what to do, because they don't have a parent or teacher telling them when to study, what to eat or when to go to bed.” What this quote is saying that freshmen have not acquired the ability to self regulate.…
Colleges come in all different shapes and sizes. Some are well known with thousands of students, others are more humble with a few hundred students. But almost every college has one thing in common and that’s sports. Nearly all the colleges across america have sports teams. However, there are varying opinions on the role sports play in a student's college life. Some agree that sports are extremely important because they earn money for the school and attract the attention of students. Others think that people are forgetting the academics of the school letting students who play on sports teams get by with just their athletic ability. But most agree with both sides of the argument that both sports and academics are key parts to a student and the college's success.…
Admissions officers visit applicant’s social media pages to learn more about them. On occasion they discover information that negatively affects the applicant’s chances of attending the university. Do you think this is fair? Explain your reasoning.…
It is a known fact that many colleges view your social media sites but I believe that if they are going to do so it should be stated in their admissions guidelines and they should have formal policies about how they review your social media presence and also procedure to verify the identity of the applicants social media since fake and malicious accounts can be made easily. The formal policies should include information about who conducts the reviews, the weight of your social media footprint in the admission process, and how the school will ensure equal treatment and prevent discrimination against applicants with the information which includes photos.…
Therefore businesses and colleges are using social media as a place to look for additional information. Colleges and employers are looking for partial information to add to the applicant's profile. There are fair amounts of reasons why it is appropriate for employers and colleges to check applicant’s social media profile. the First utmost reason is every individual on social media is portraying certain image and employers and colleges are looking for a presentable image because they do not want to embarrass their schools and companies. Schiffman Elizabeth state that “ in all cases, the intent was to protect the school from potential embarrassment” ( source C ). Colleges and employers compare and contrast the applicant’s social and professional life. How one presents him or herself is very important because the way the individual present him or herself is how that individual is going to present the company or college. One's good public image is very necessary. Cartwright, Jeffrey also stated that " at Harvard, the demand for all information available pushes the university to turn to social networking sites. and admissions counselors who check social networking sites are mostly looking for content that people would find objectionable like racist comments or would raise concerns about the student" ( source C ). It is all about portraying oneself in an…
When looking into prospective students, admission officers should highly consider looking them up online, as they will be spending their next two to four years on the campus that they will have to represent. Even after that, people continue to hold value to where they studied at for the rest of their lives. In 2016, 40% of admission officers visited prospective students’ social media pages, but that number should really be 100% (Mulhere). The 40% who already looked up applicants do so, “to protect their school, its reputation, and to avoid potential bad apples from spoiling their brand,” (Davich). The students who attend these schools are the examples for future classes to look at and if they see people who aren’t up to their standards, they are going to look someplace else. Teens know that their “Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter persona reflects on their actual personality,” and schools should know that too (Mulhere). No one wants to end up somewhere where rapists, pranksters, and delinquents go to either. Peeking into online profiles can reveal just a little more into the character of potential…
While many students may be on athletic scholarship, it’s important to note that success in sports must not hinder the academic progress of the student. Should it ever begin to affect a student one must be dealt with accordingly so as to avoid suspension or other penalties that may apply. Their main focus has to be on what is more important and that is to maintain academic standards. There are many reasons why students who are doing poorly in their academic courses should not be allowed to partake athletic programs. Students wouldn’t be able to focus, students are given special privileges, and bad influences from other student athletes due to extracurricular activities.…