Students need to learn how to manage social media appropriately, education plays a role in that.
Students need to learn the consequences, good and bad, of having a presence on social media and the Internet and how to use it for career and life success. We are not going to change that social media plays a role in their personal and professional lives.
Using social media for job search, networking, and learning will be essential for success in the future, students need to learn how to use these tools appropriately. Social media delivers information, connects them with experts and engages them with each other. Social media should supplement, but not supplant traditional learning.
It's called education.
There is a massive reason why we shouldn't! It is education, not time to text your friends and check out memes! Kids aren't the most reliable people to trust with social media. No matter what the teachers say, they will just ignore them. So let's consider the reasons why we shouldn't use social media for education.