Nowadays, when we think about social media like Facebook or Twitter, we only see the funny point of view: share photos, comment the wall of our friends, keep in touch with the world every second, etc., but I think that it is time to introduce these tools in the education of teenagers and university students (under and postgraduated).Social media could provide a lot of vantage in an university class: more participation of the alumni, research of examples in the web, share of contents outside the class and the most important aspect, knowledge about how to use in a responsible way these tools. One experiment about social media in the University is showed in this video.
After seven years at a Spanish University where I studied a little bit of Photoshop, editing video and audio, blogs and Microsoft Office, I did not learn anything about social media. Is Microsoft Office Word the future or the social media? Nowadays, everybody knows more or less how to use Microsoft Office and how to send e-mails, but not how to use the new tools that Internet provides, and I think that this gap could be cover for the new PR practitioners. We do not need the same preparation than practitioners ten years ago, the technology is changing everyday.
I think that the introduction of social media in the University and High School could get better the formation of the future proffesionals and moreover, teach to these target of people how to use them, because the majority learn alone and they do not have any idea about the power of these tools.
For all these reasons I think that social media should be a compulsary subject.
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