After our group had narrowed down different perspective of IM culture, I am focusing on the educational IM. I have found some interesting phenomena from the articles and videos as the following.
- IM in education may help to ease the tense relationship between teachers and students
- more adults or seniors are using IM due to the educational purpose
- children or teenagers know about the difference of language in IM and in written paper (from the video "teenagers teaching seniors")
- Other than communcation, IM provides the function of files or inventory sharing
- the findings are around the same in terms of the benefits and drawbacks of IM in education
- although IM is widely used, IM in education is not
- IM in education seems useful, but the findings do not show whether is it practical
- there is not enough evidence showing that the benefits could outweigh the drawbacks
- all in all, whether is it benefiting depends on individual effort
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