We are aware that our high school students are
busy and stressed nowadays even more than just a year ago and this burden of new
information and assignments in quite different school subjects from Math
through History to Language Arts including Russian and English is growing from
year to year enormously.
But
kids cannot imagine their life without socializing and they use social networks
to keep in touch and exchange ideas. They use vkontakte.ru or facebook.com many
times a day - so these networks can be also successfully used for educational
purposes as well – it can be seen as a kind of new game. We have been using
vkontakte.ru in English since November 2010 and all my students who
are in our ePals in Focus closed academic group agree - it’s useful and fun. Here is Spotlight 5 April issue to share your opinion in the comments.