1. Social Media Issues Common Places: Integrated Reading and Writing
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2. Topic 1: Social Media and Distraction

3. A recent Pew Internet & American Life Project report surveyed 2,462 middle school and high school advanced placement and national writing project teachers and concluded that: “Overwhelming majorities agree with the assertions that today’s digital technologies are creating an easily distracted generation with short attention spans and today’s students are too ‘plugged in’ and need more time away from their digital technologies.” Two-thirds of the respondents agree with the notion that today’s digital technologies do more to distract students than to help them academically.

4. And probably the two most common distractions . . .
A recent Pew Internet & American Life Project report surveyed 2,462 middle school and high school advanced placement and national writing project teachers and concluded that: “Overwhelming majorities agree with the assertions that today’s digital technologies are creating an easily distracted generation with short attention spans and today’s students are too ‘plugged in’ and need more time away from their digital technologies.” Two-thirds of the respondents agree with the notion that today’s digital technologies do more to distract students than to help them academically.
And probably the two most common distractions . . .

5. Topic 2:
Facial Recognition
Technology

6. Facial Recognition Technology

9. Topic 3:
Pros and Cons
of Social Media

10. Facebook Depression

11. Internet Addiction

12. Virtual Empathy

13. and the Middle East Democracy Movement
Topic 4:
Social Media
and
the Middle East
Democracy Movement

14. Placard seen repeatedly at rallies and protests during the Arab Spring

15. Photo by Sharif Hassan
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16. Photo by Essam Sharaf “2011 Egyptian protests Facebook & jan25 card”
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