The part Social media could play in education is a much debated matter. This revolution in education is still to be made, so many opposite points of view are expressed in the news. The audience supposedly interested by that question is also really diverse: teachers, parents, students, politicians etc.…
That diversity can be found in the different articles covering that kind of story: they all adopt a different point of view, regarding what audience they target. But it also appear that no one knows much about the subject. For example, it is really interesting to see that the same article, written for Reuters was published without any transformation by many news websites all over English speaking country such as the Chicago Tribune in the US, Abs Cbn in the Philippines or in Europe.
Still, using social media for educational purposes is not an idea everyone agrees on. When articles are written for a general audience, they are simplified, as we can see in this more skeptic Canadian article. Regarding social media, the general trend seems to be “wait and see”: the online version of the magazine Wired found a really interesting way of dealing with that, creating a wiki article that everyone can update about social media in school. Thanks to that strategy, the new are always new.
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