Three quarters of teachers want to bring User Generated Content (UGC) sites such as YouTube into their teaching and nearly half (42%) want to introduce social media tools such as Twitter or Facebook into the classroom.
Martyn Farrows, Director of Magic Studio, said: "Kids are using social media all the time, every day in their home lives then, when they get into school, they're suddenly asked to forget all about that and go back 10 years in terms of the types of media they're consuming.
How do we expect kids to really engage with learning if we're talking to them in a way that has no relevance to their ordinary modes of communication?
"Some of these restrictions are in place because of outdated concerns over security. However, there's now a swathe of tools and services that can bring the power of social media into the classroom in a safe and constructive way."
