User:Agreenst05/Social media in education

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While social media has immense potential to facilitate communication and enhance collaboration in today's education, its tendency to be distracting, psychologically harmful and invasive of students’ privacy call for a cautious incorporation into our education system. To present a more nuanced and objective perspective of how social media is changing our education culture, I plan to edit the Wikipedia article 'Social Media in Education'. The part I am revising right now does not go into enough detail about how complicated social media can be in education. It talks quickly about how social media can help people learn, but it does not go into detail about the problems that can arise, like mental health issues and distractions. I am going to add more to this part to talk about all social media's effects on schooling, both good and bad. I am going to add more information to the "Uses in the Classroom" part by including recent studies that talk about how tools like Slack makes it easier for people to talk to each other and work together. I will also give you numbers that show how these sites grew during the COVID-19 outbreak. There is not enough research on the mental health and privacy issues that using social media in school right now is produced. I am going to change the "Mental Health" part and add studies on how social media use, especially among students, can lead to anxiety, sadness, and privacy issues. To back up this growth, I will use the 2024 study from the NEA News on how youth's mental health is affected by social media. There is a piece by Kira Barrett in the NEA News that talks about the growing levels of sadness and anxiety in teenagers linked to their social media habits. Jean Twenge and Jacob Barkley have discovered that adolescents who spend time on activities, like Instagram and Snapchat tend to feel more anxious and isolated. People tend to measure themselves against others which can make them feel inadequate and lonely. They also pointed out that cyberbullying and not having face-to-face conversations play a role in these feelings. The piece also talks about how students find it hard to take breaks from their electronics, which makes their mental health issues even worse.