The Sweet Smell of Summer {School}

    Some call me crazy, and some call me an over-achiever. I am not sure which I am, but I do know one thing. Five summer college courses can feel rather overwhelming! This is the first week of classes and I am already waist-deep in a variety of assignments. 

    This week I am tackling one key assignment, a research paper on the effects of social media on the social development of pre-adolescents and adolescents. It sounds a bit complicated, but I found the information to be overwhelmingly interesting and highly applicable to teaching. If you are interested in teaching or currently teach middle or high school, I highly recommend exploring some of the positive and negative effects that social media is having on students in these grade levels.

    If you are interested in learning more about the impact of social media on the social development of today's youth, feel free to read through my research paper, The Effects of Social Media on the Social Development of Pre-Adolescents and Adolescents. As we all know and as Diane Barth notes after her research on this subject, we have to learn how to teach with "this sometimes overwhelming, but clearly permanent aspect of contemporary life." (2014)

Stay tuned for more teaching in the A.M.

References

Barth, F. (2014). Social Media and Adolescent Development: Hazards, Pitfalls

and Opportunities for Growth. Clinical Social Work Journal, 43(2), 201-208.