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While social media is a very familiar subject to most students in the United States, integrating it into the classroom is still a very new idea that older educators especially are not yet too comfortable with. I agree with the fact that social media has the ability to be a powerful tool in the education space due to its relatability within the student body, however, I believe that the bad will outweigh the good when integrating social media resulting in an inflated amount of distraction. 

During class, we talked about memes and how they could be used as a way to visualize students' thoughts. We compared the content of the article about memes being used to study literature called Memes as Means: Using Popular Culture to Enhance the Study of Literature and in my opinion, the article discussed the creation of visual aids or representations rather than memes. In my personal experiences, memes have always been humor focused often on the context of the included text within the picture. Looking at the pictures included within the article that were produced by students there is no focus on humor, but rather on visually representing what they were reading. 

We also participated in a discussion board activity based on the article BookTok 101: TikTok, Digital, Literacies, and Out-of-School Reading Practices. This article was very interesting to me, and I both agreed and disagreed with it. The article spoke a lot about how there are many smaller communities within the TikTok community that are centered around books and discussing them as they read through them. On paper I believe that this is a great tool to integrate inside the ELA classroom because of how relatable TikTok is to a large majority of high school students, however, I believe that there would be too many problems when executing the platform's integration. TikTok is a platform where you can find content about anything imaginable. This is a good thing for as I said any student will be able to relate their interests to the app, but I feel as though the endless possibilities will result in more distractions than anything else. Also, because the content of the app, as well as posts contributing to discussion from those outside of the class, have no way to be regulated, there will always be a risk of students being in danger of things like harassment online. I believe that TikTok holds the capability to be a powerful tool in the classroom in the future, but as of right now I don't think that modern classrooms and their educators are fully ready to take on such an influential and new platform. 








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