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Teens and Social Media: More than Just Facebook. Have you heard the news about Facebook?

Article after article say that Facebook has a problem—teen engagement is on the decline. Does this spell doom for the world’s largest social network? Hardly. The official word is that millions of teens are still on Facebook, and the number of teens using the social network are holding steady. Facebook is just one of many places where teens are online. What’s Hot With Teens Right Now Snapchat Snapchat offers teens a simpler, more private social experience than Facebook. Instagram Instagram’s popular photo sharing service got a big boost when it let users share video.

Vine Twitter launched Vine in 2013, and it shares its parent’s penchant for keeping things brief. Tumblr Tumblr has grown into one of the largest blogging platforms, and it’s very popular with teens and young adults. Messenger Apps WhatsApp, Kik, Facebook Messenger and other messenger apps let teens communicate one on one or with a group of friends. What is littleBits? 7 Ways Teachers Use Social Media in the Classroom.

Millennials live and breathe on social media, so teachers are learning how to incorporate the medium into the classroom successfully.

In doing so, teachers not only encourage students to engage actively in the material, but they also provide online communities for students that might not exist for them in real life. But how are teachers infusing social media into their everyday lessons? We've highlighted several different examples and offered our own ideas on how to best engage students. 1. Encourage students to share work socially. Anna Divinsky created an iTunes U class at Penn State University called Art 10: Introduction to Visual Studies, which she then adapted into a massive open online course (MOOC) on Coursera.

For each class assignment, students were responsible for evaluating each other's work. Students shared their work on a variety of platforms. @psutlt #art10psu Art in the style of Rousseau (done in pencil) pic.twitter.com/oOA9UrlX6E— Wendy S Dixson (@WendyDixson) July 16, 2013. An Analogue Solution for a Digital Problem. Most Upvoted 493 votes THe Harsh Reality of Growing Up.

Dr. Adrianne Wadewitz on Teaching with Wikipedia. By Lisa Wade, PhD, Jan 19, 2013, at 12:00 pm My brilliant colleague, Adrianne Wadewitz, was featured on Wikipedia last month.

Live-Tweeting in the Classroom…With a Guest Speaker-Tweeter. Mary Chayko’s digitally well-connected class One of the aspects of techno-social life that I’ll be looking at closely in my forthcoming book Superconnected: The Internet and Techno-Social Life is the reality of the online experience.

To explore this issue in the classroom, I invited Nathan Jurgenson of this blog to tweet “live” with my “Mediated Communication in Society” class, billing him as a special guest speaker tweeter! Here I describe what I did, why I did it, how I did it — and what happened, much of it unexpected, as a result. I’m a big believer in using social media in the classroom, especially Twitter, as appropriate. Students generally seem to spark to it, entering willingly, even eagerly, into conversations and collaborations that often continue well after class is over. My Mediated Communication class (Rutgers University, Fall 2012) has taken this premise even further.

I proposed that we spend an hour or so live-tweeting with him. We discussed the augmentation of reality… 5 Ways to Use Twitter in the Classroom. Using a social media tool like Twitter is an excellent way to connect with your students and extend education beyond the classroom.

It places learning experiences into a modern context familiar to this tech savvy generation. Let's look at a few ways you can incorporate Twitter or Twitter-like sites into your curriculum. It's important to note that alternatives to Twitter exist and may be more appropriate for your classroom. TodaysMeet provides a very simple, Twitter-like environment that is easy to use with students. An Educator’s Guide to Pinterest [Media Literacy] « Media Make Change.

The National Association of Media Literacy Education defines media literacy as “a series of communication competencies, including the ability to access, analyze, and communicate information in a variety of forms, including print and non-print messages.”More specifically, NAMLE breaks down media literacy into several definitions:Media refers to all electronic or digital means and print or artistic visuals used to transmit messages.Literacy is the ability to encode and decode symbols and to synthesize and analyze messages.Media literacy is the ability to encode and decode the symbols transmitted via media and the ability to synthesize, analyze and produce mediated messages.Media education is the study of media, including ‘hands on’ experiences and media production.Media literacy education is the educational field dedicated to teaching the skills associated with media literacy.

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