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543 Final reflection post

This course, as I've said in the past, challenged me greatly. Social media is not something that I really ever equated to a learning tool, but I had seen it done a few times during the last couple of years. I think that there should definitely be a separation of sorts between the professional uses of the tools, and the social uses of the tools. Few people, if any, realize the long-lasting impacts of having access to these global tools. This connection we have shrinks the world and makes it easier to connect. To sum up my thoughts on social media as it pertains to teaching, I have to say that there are right and wrong uses. If a learning goal is not being met with elaborate plans to use social media, then that's okay. There is surely a different tool that will work sufficiently to meet the learning goal. Social media is cool, but it is not the answer to all of our problems in the classroom. Just like anything, we should evaluate the choices we make within the environments we int

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