Using Social Media to Learn a Foreign Language
Today's teens are growing up in a world where social media is everywhere. Regardless of whether or not they have access to these technologies or how they engage with them, there is little doubt that social media is playing a significant role in the changing landscape of American youth.
Citation: boyd, danah. 2009. "Living and Learning with Social Media." Penn State Symposium for Teaching and Learning with Technology. State College, PA: April 18.
Learning a foreign language has become a global, three-dimensional experience, complete with real-time audio and visual sound effects, all at the touch of a computer key. Amazing.
Here is a link which discusses the use of social media to learn languages. Several of the websites are new and unfamiliar to me. Therefore, I am going to have fun exploring these resources.




Monday, July 13, 2009 at 8:31AM