I read three different articles on Mashable:
1. Top 10 Twitter Trends this week
2. How to help your children set up a blog
3. The case for social media in schools
After reading these three articles, I asked myself, how has writing changed? And here's the answer: if Justin Bieber can be the most trended topic on Twitter, and parents are teaching their kids all about social media and the Internet, writing has changed.
The fact an article like the first one I posted is featured on a major website is a major sign that writing has changed.
And the other two articles show the effect social media writing is having on the younger generation. The "How to set up a children's blog" article, is a great testament in showing how multimedia writing is affecting everyone in our country. That's the power social media has had on the world. If there is a "how-to" for parents in helping them set up a blog for their children, then writing has changed a lot.
When I was 10-years-old, I didn't even know what a blog was. And now, to think that there are kids out there who will have their own blog when they are in 5th grade is mind-blowing.
And now I see kids who are still in grade school who have Facebook profiles. That's what the third article sums up. It's crazy. The effect social media has had on us is changing the way we teach kids is incredible.
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I did not realize there are special blogging sites for kids at all. I guess I think that is appropriate, but I am not sure that kids in grade school should be using general blogging sites like this one. Some of the comments on the article were interesting. For example, people were saying it was a horrible article because kids should be outdoors. But, I really think they would be crippling their children by not allowing them to learn how to intuitively use social media, the web and computers in general.
ReplyDeleteI think that it is really cool that there are special sites made just for little kids to blog. I had no idea sites like this exisisted. I think that it would be a great learning opportunity for kids to learn how to blog and use social media at a young age so they can use it to the full potential and take advantage of it.
ReplyDeleteIt is scary how fast its changed to where everything is about social media. I think they still need to find a balance between this new teaching method and still allowing kids to be kids.
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