Twitter is intertwined with just about every aspect of the daily life of students, teachers, and everyone else online. That’s why I thought this new infographic by Masters Degree Online makes some interesting points. If you can overlook the spelling errors, you should take a moment to learn a bit more about the relationship between Twitter and grades.
Do you think there’s a valid link between social media / Twitter and grades? Does social media help boost grades a noticeable amount? Can we even measure that? Weigh in by mentioning @edudemic on Twitter, leave a comment, or post on this Facebook page. Thanks!
I agree with the comment made from Univ of Florida on the source page for this 'research'….a bunch of statistics without more about the research that generated them is rather meaningless. Who undertook this research, what was the sample size, and what was the methodology used? I teach my 12 year old students never to accept such unverified 'facts'! One of the problems with social networking is that it can give sloppy research more attention than it deserves. But that is not to say that it wouldn't be a very worthwhile bit of proper research as social networking in general certainly is altering the ways in which students obtain info and develop their thinking, (Hence what we are doing right now!)
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