Watching Casey Neistat's video "Snapchat Murders Facebook," got me thinking about my students and how much they use their social media in the day. Not only the amount of use, but the fact that they are willing to post almost anything for others to see. Also, I started thinking about how I would use it in my classroom to engage my students.
Almost every one of my students has a smartphone. There are maybe five who do not have one. And almost all of them use Snapchat. (I know these things because I polled them recently). I asked them what they post on there because I know that I use Snapchat sometimes, but it is usually to post a picture of something random or to chat with some of my friends. A lot of them said they do the same thing, and a lot of them said that they usually just post a lot of selfies. Of course, they then tried to get me to add them all on Snapchat, which I said NO.
I then started thinking. I know that the app was once the “dirty pictures sent to someone but they will delete”. However, you can SCREENSHOT ANYTHING! The app does notify you when someone screenshots your snap, but what can you do once they do that? Now your image is out there for anyone and everyone and you’re not in charge of that. This worries me, and I know that this is a lesson I want to make sure I talk to my students about. Not just Snapchat, but any social media.
Then thinking about how to use it in my classroom, I figure that it would be cool to post a Snapchat story that shows them their homework and reminds them of what is due the next day or that is upcoming. Even funny little miniature lessons would be fun to post for my students because it is using a platform they are interested in.
Snapchat is something that I think will be good to use with my students in the future.
Neistat, Casey. (2014, October 2). Snapchat Murders Facebook. [Video File]. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/kKSr6h5-fCU?list=PLbRLdW37G3oMquOaC-HeUIt6CWk-FzaGp.
Almost every one of my students has a smartphone. There are maybe five who do not have one. And almost all of them use Snapchat. (I know these things because I polled them recently). I asked them what they post on there because I know that I use Snapchat sometimes, but it is usually to post a picture of something random or to chat with some of my friends. A lot of them said they do the same thing, and a lot of them said that they usually just post a lot of selfies. Of course, they then tried to get me to add them all on Snapchat, which I said NO.
I then started thinking. I know that the app was once the “dirty pictures sent to someone but they will delete”. However, you can SCREENSHOT ANYTHING! The app does notify you when someone screenshots your snap, but what can you do once they do that? Now your image is out there for anyone and everyone and you’re not in charge of that. This worries me, and I know that this is a lesson I want to make sure I talk to my students about. Not just Snapchat, but any social media.
Then thinking about how to use it in my classroom, I figure that it would be cool to post a Snapchat story that shows them their homework and reminds them of what is due the next day or that is upcoming. Even funny little miniature lessons would be fun to post for my students because it is using a platform they are interested in.
Snapchat is something that I think will be good to use with my students in the future.
Neistat, Casey. (2014, October 2). Snapchat Murders Facebook. [Video File]. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/kKSr6h5-fCU?list=PLbRLdW37G3oMquOaC-HeUIt6CWk-FzaGp.