Social Networks & Education
Social Media is such a big business, education cannot ignore it.
Echo Chamber
- You select what you want to read about it
- You make critical decisions on what you want to experience
- Your stream of blogs and microblogs
- The forums you want to be in
- You select the information based on who you trust
- How adults and youth gain information and use information is different
- Teens (54%) get news from social media
- More and more adults get news from social media, however, many feel this is a problem and are concerned by the mix of news that people see each day.
- Teachers use social media to get new teaching ideas, find resources, stay on top of trends and news and connect with other educators
- Teachers & schools need a social media strategy
- Strategies to increase learning engagement
- Strategies for inclusion
- Strategies for co-creation
- Strategies to protect student and teacher identity
- It changes rapidly
- It is complex
- It is about people interacting with people
- It is about clear communication
- It requires cognitive input
- It is about influencing other people
- It is about networks
The challenge
- Enabling collaboration based assessment
- The classroom is about interaction, not the individual
- The rapid change from one social media to the next
- Use of personal accounts
- Engineering dynamic feedback loops
- The learning shift is not the technical use but the actual communication
Teacher Role
- The teacher is not the facilitator
- The teacher is the change agents
- Teach participation
- Stimulate communication and collaboration
- Teach diversity of information
- Teach how to seek, receive and apply feedback
- Teach how to produce creative solutions
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