![]() “Instead of fighting it, I’m finding ways to engage with it in my classroom.” She thinks with the right structure, including limited time on the platform and specific assignments, it can be a way for students to channel something they already love into a learning tool. She sees it as an alternative to other video platforms. Still, teachers see the possibilities of TikTok.Įarlier this school year, Kathryn Byars, a social studies teacher at Eleanor Roosevelt High School in Eastvale, Calif., gave her students the option of making TikToks to compare and contrast different historical trade routes, and to share inventions from the Industrial Revolution. ![]() Add to that ubiquitous student data privacy considerations, giving educators good reason to proceed cautiously with the use of this relatively new social media platform. And, like Snapchat and Instagram, it could become yet another forum for bullying. Like Kozlowsky, she’s enthusiastic about TikTok’s potential as a teaching and engagement tool.īut, even as experts encourage the trend, they warn that the platform has the potential to become a big classroom distraction. TikTok is “sort of its own language and it’s the language that teenagers speak,” said Jennifer Berg Gaither, the school librarian at Baltimore City College, a public magnet high school in the city. But, as many educators can tell you, it’s a hit with tweens and teens. The platform appeals to a wide-variety of ages. ![]() Source: Common Sense Media, Education Week Some videos are highly sexually explicit, or feature self-harm. Like other social media platforms, TikTok has a dark side. Some privacy advocates have concerns about students sharing their data on any social media platform because it’s unclear what companies do with it.Ĥ. TikTok has the potential to become a bullying platform, in part because users can comment on each other’s videos, and because some users post other people’s videos on YouTube for the express purpose of making fun of them.ģ. It’s a possible alternative to other video platforms, one California educator said.Ģ. TikTok can be an engaging way to liven up a lesson. The TikTok video-sharing platform is becoming increasingly popular with tweens and teens, and some teachers have started using it in their classrooms.
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