I would love to share some of the great resources my PLN has shared on Twitter!

http://kiwicommons.com/index.php?p=9025&tag=embracing-social-media-in-schools-is-it-safe

- Social Media in Education

6 Ways Social Media is Changing Education

Future Of Education Is Mobile, Social, and in the Cloud: Lessons from EduCause

How Social Media is Changing the Education Industry

Why Social Media Can and Is Changing Education

Social media in higher education


100+ examples of use of social media for learning

100 Inspiring Ways to Use Social Media In the Classroom

100 Tips, Tools, and Resources for Teaching Students About Social Media

Integrating social media into the classroom a valuable lesson

Mentoring Your Students in Social Media or Vice Versa

7 Ways to Use Social Media in the Classroom

Can Social Media in the Classroom Encourage Critical Thinking?

How to teach with a social networking site

Best Practices in Social Networking for Educators

3 Tips for teachers using social media in the classroom

Social Media: Eliminating Communication Barriers for People with Disabilities

How professors, students use them as tools

Enrich Your Teaching Through Social Media

How to Help Students Use Social Media Effectively

Open Book : k-12 teach play book for teachers

Why Schools Need to Get Social, Local and Mobile

Ten ways schools are using social media effectively

5 Reasons Not to Ban Social Networking in Schools

Social Networking Goes to School

The Case For Social Media in Schools

How Schools Slowly Embraced Social Media

Start the New School Year Using Social Media

Why social media in school

How Today’s Higher EducationFaculty Use Social Media

Resources to Help Schools Understand Social Media


5 Fun and Safe Social Networks for Children

8 Social Media Sites Just for Kids

How to practice safe social networking

Social Media: Is it for Kids?


- Social media for professional development


Social Media and the Professional Learning Community

A Social Network Can Be a Learning Network

An Intro Social Media Resources to Develop a PLN

How to Use Social-Networking Technology for Learning


- Social Media Tools

5 Social Media Tools for College Students

Tools Designed Just For Education

Tools for the Social Classroom (ages 5-18)

7 Fantastic Free Social Media Tools for Teachers

5 New Social Networks You Should Know About


10 Social Media Tools For Learning

Top 20 Social Networks for Education

Social Network Technologies for Learning

7 Tools to Build a Social Network for Your School


And some great articles here.

As the years pass social media tools like ( Twitter, Facebook, youtube...) are being used everyday as a means of communication and information sharing and its becoming an integral part of the lives of today`s " Digitally Savvy" Students, shaping their attitudes and personality. Its simply that kind of medium that students are already familiar to and obsessed with...they just love it!


With all these facts & others that we can`t deny, and as teachers ..Can`t we see some benefits in embracing it? can we exploited these tools fully and harness our student`s passion towards it? in order to deliver curriculum through it, and improve our students` skills? can we just twist it to a sociable learning and teaching tool? 
The answer is yes , we actually can..In fact social networking goes to schools and has already found its place in the classroom.


But why`s that?...For many reasons:


-  Social media can be a valuable and effective teaching tool as more teachers, school leaders and principals are embracing it and becoming more aware of it.
-  There are a hundreds of inspiring ideas and more on how to use social media in the classroom everywhere on the web.
- Having a lot of free social media tools for students and even for kids, in addition to some tools that are only designed for education, will surely encourage schools to use it.
- A lot of educators believe in the power of embracing it.
- Social media is the future of education.
- Social media, like the Internet, will be a part of our world for a long time.Its better to teach it than to fight it.
- It can help building the 21st century skills for students.
- Social media is changing education.
- Education is based upon relationships.
- Social Media is not going away!


For all these reasons and more! , if you`re not embracing it, you`re missing out on a lot!.
So lets end the social media debate..Get connected and make a difference!



Check out what has my PLN shared about Social Media on Twitter!


Are you still not convinced yet? :-)