Social Media Bad for Students?
According to a poll conducted by Common Sense Media beginning in August 2009, some 22 percent of teenagers check in at their favorite social media site in excess of 10 times each day. In addition, and more than half of all adolescents use a social media site more than once daily. 25 percent of teens who own cell phones use them for social media, 54 percent for texting, and 24 percent for instant messaging while upwards of 75% of all teens now own cell phones. With all of this constant checking, logging in, composing and sending out messages and uploading photos and videos, when exactly do these young people have time to do anything serious, like school work and homework assignments? Could social media be ruing our young people, giving them short attention spans and robbing them of short term memory? Or is it really just harmless, and part of being a well adapted 21st century learner?This infographic attemps to highlight the pros and cons of using social media as a student or school-aged child. There are certainly good things and bad things that go along with it. This lets you break it down as quick facts, and is easier on the eyes than pages of statistics. Click to expand.
