Social Media Map, Social Media Marketing by Overdrive Interactive. Social networking safety, Safe social networking - EdgeWave.com. A recent report from state and national educational organizations recommends against social media blocking in K-12 schools as a way to deal with the challenging issue of safe social networking safety for students. The report, entitled "Making Progress: Rethinking State and School District Policies Concerning Mobile Technologies and Social Media", includes statistics showing the widespread use of social media among K-12 students and explains why social networking safety cannot be assured simply by blocking all access to social media. In fact, the report gave several reasons why educators should embrace safe social networking. A summary of their conclusions: Allowing social media, while assuring social networking safety helps students bridge the gap between formal classroom learning and informal learning outside the school, which can help them be better prepared for real-world experiences.
There is a strong distinction between social networking safety and social medial blocking. Introduction - Social Media for Fun & Profit - HCT CampusGuides at Higher Colleges of Technology. The Myth of the Digital Native. Being Social Online Means Being Social In Life. As a proponent of social media, I am often met by those who have not joined these waters with comments like:"Students can't even learn to speak properly to each other face-to-face. We need to get that straight before we focus on communicating online. ""If I want to speak to someone, I'll pick up the phone or make a plan to meet them.
""I prefer real connections. ""Social media is making people less social. They don't go out in the real world anymore. " My response is generally that our online behavior is usually an extension of our f2f behavior and that social media doesn't change that, rather it offers new ways to connect. In the report they answer whether or not social networking hindered off line activity and interactions. Only 3% of users’ Facebook friends have never met in person. Read Full Report. Four Ways Teachers Can Utilize Twitter | MediaCAST Blog. We’re excited to present you with a guest post from Carey Cruz today, bio at end. There is a good chance that whether you teach elementary, middle or high school, your students and their parents are already aware of Twitter at the very least. This being the case, you can use the attributes of communicating on Twitter to your advantage.
Twitter is known for being a fast way to summarize and communicate so planning lessons and communicating with these attributes in mind will not only teach students about this social networking service, it will make your job easier. Below you will find ways to use Twitter in both your lessons and as a tool to communicate with students and their parents: 1. Twitter is a great way to send reminders to parents. 2. Students, especially those in elementary and middle school, are still learning to get organized and some are better at it than others. 3. 4. As a class you can conduct an interview with someone living in another country through Twitter. Author Bio. ‘Recombinant art,’ life?: Parenting & the digital drama overload. As Moby does with other people’s sounds and musical phrases, David Shields does with words, saying that mashing up other people’s words (or “recombinant” art) is much more interesting than creating fiction, which is sort of an appropriation of Mark Twain’s “reality is stranger [more interesting?]
Than fiction.” “Mr. Shields’s book consists of 618 fragments, including hundreds of quotations taken from other writers like Philip Roth, Joan Didion and Saul Bellow,” the New York Times reports. That’s a huge contentious subject – copyright, intellectual property, fair use, etc. – important and fascinating, but it’s only about content. We are remixing and creating a recombinant reality that is pressing in upon us with the same constancy, volume, and intensity as content is. Breathers. Engage Student Discussion: Use the Social Network in Your Classroom. Social media Watch a typical whole group discussion in the classroom and you'll most likely see a "hub / spokes" flow of information.
Teacher to student A and back to teacher. Teacher to student B and back to teacher. So it goes as the "bluebirds" get to show how smart they are. Over time, students learn that their comments are of provisional value until "approved" by the teacher. That's because in this style of discussion the teacher is most likely searching for specific replies - sort of playing "guess what I'm thinking" with the "best" students in the class. Students tend not to listen to each other and only focus on what the teacher says or validates - "will that be up on a test? " In my workshops I train teachers in discussion techniques that foster student reflection and interaction. With practice, teachers find that students are eager to engage and participate.
"UT Dallas History Professor Dr. Learn From My Social Media Mistakes. I recently conducted a webinar for the Association of Independent Michigan Schools titled, “Social Media for Admission Professionals.” In preparation for that webinar I thought a lot about how and why I use social media for my school. Through my reflection I determined three mistakes that I made when I began using social media and I want to share them so that you can learn from my failures. The Importance of Goals I’ve talked time and time again about the importance of determining goals when using social media for your school. When we started using social media I took my own advice and determined our goal was to drive engagement. I thought I could measure fans/followers in the hopes of having our social media “reach” increase exponentially as our fans and followers increased.
While I thought that was a great goal, I was wrong. As a result, I’ve changed our goals regarding social media. Don’t Spread Yourself Too Thin Social Media Is Not A Panacea. How To Best Use Social Media In The Classroom. In today’s world, technology is ever changing – this is also true in education. The prominence of social media in everyday life has also had an impact in the classroom. There are a number of different ways that social media is being used by teachers across the country. Embrace Community One major way that social media can be used in education is by using it to exchange ideas with teachers nearby and miles away.
With social media, educators from across the country can connect and discuss different teaching methods and tools. Social media is an excellent way to incorporate new ideas. For example, many teachers use Pinterest as a way to gather ideas for things like classroom organization and lesson plans. Bringing The World Into The Classroom Many schools are reaching out to the idea of incorporating technology into teaching. Social media is also a great way to keep the community feel of the school going. Now It’s Your Turn Can you share a few ideas on using social media in the classroom? School Social Media Use - A Lesson In Digital Footprints. [box type="info"]This is a guest blog post by Susan M. Bearden. Susan is the Director of Information Technology for Holy Trinity Episcopal Academy in Melbourne, FL. She tweets about leadership, technology, education, social media and business. Follow her on Twitter or at her blog. [/box] In my guest blog post last month called “Social Media: It’s About the Relationships!”
I discussed some of the ways in which schools can use social media to build relationships with parents, extended family members, and the school community. One of the main problems I run into is the fear the school has of publishing a picture of a kid or even including them in a video when their parents have signed the agreement that says they do NOT allow their child’s image or name to be published. The concerns that prompt these kind of agreements are not uncommon. At the FETC 2012 Conference in January, I attended a terrific session on “Parenting 2.0” by @RitaOates.
Social media. All the kids are doing it. Social media growth in the learning process, even at the primary education level, points to the increased importance of social learning management systems (LMS) value in the workplace. It comes down to how people what to learn. According to the infographic below which I found on understandinge-branding.com, shows the rampant us of social media in relation to how learning is evolving with our youth.
Revolutionary concepts need a ‘sandbox’ to be tried and tested. That is exactly what is currently happening with the inclusion of social media into the traditional learning process, which we now call social learning. While brick and mortar schools have been slow to adopt, in terms of rate of technological growth and adoption, the same principles are being employed by employers. Check out just how fast students have started leveraging social media – soon they will be employees as well: Where is this all headed, you may ask? What can we learn from this? Jeffrey A. Interactyx Limitedinteractyx.com. Social Media in the Classroom » Social Networking Tips. Many teachers and parents are a bit concerned over the idea of incorporating too many online activities, especially more public ones, into the classroom, particularly when you’re talking about younger children.
After all, there are so many stories that have hit the news about predators, cyber-bullying, and other disturbing trends. It’s perfectly understandable that adults would be leery of social media with all this negative press regarding the internet; however, more and more educators are learning that there are some real positives that can come from the inclusion of social media in the classroom and that there are some very safe means of utilizing these free educational tools to promote better attendance, stronger academic performance and more collaborative learning with elementary and high school kids alike. Engaged Kids Perform Better Social Media is here to Stay, so Why Not Take Advantage of it?
Social Media Tool Options Using the Internet for Productive Learning. Social Media Guidelines. Editor's Note: Check out the series of "How to Create Social Media Guidelines for Your School" articles that Steven Anderson wrote for Edutopia in May 2012, or download the full version as a PDF. Look what happens on the Internet in one minute. More and more, social media is becoming a part of our daily lives. Just today, Mashable is out with a report that says Pinterest (which is less than a year old) is the #3 social network in the U.S. This report mentions that the amount of monthly traffic Facebook receives is seven billion page views, and Twitter receives 182. But it isn't just adults who are moving more of their lives to online spaces.
And it isn't just teens. This data is staggering. The Age of Personalization Being involved in social media allows adults, teens and kids connect with each other, learn with each other and grow together. We live in an age of personalization. Yet when many of our students reach the schoolhouse door, it's like the Internet and social media don't exist. Social Media & Higher Education: The Opportunity for Colleges & Universities | Tampa Bay Social Media | Visual Alliance Media. It’s all about your target audience: With whom are you trying to connect?
Where are they? What is your message? When it comes to higher ed institutions, there are multiple student audiences: prospective students, current students and alumni. And any social media marketing for colleges & universities should reflect these various contingents with their unique characteristics, requirements and focus. The infographic below reflects the opportunities for higher education institutions to use social media to engage with each of these student segments and includes some interesting facts and figures along the way.
Connected Learning Infographic. Meeting of Minds: Cross-Generational Dialogue of the Ethics of Digital Life. Today’s youth inhabit new digital social spaces foreign to most adults. These spaces offer unprecedented opportunities for connection, creativity, and community. At the same time they present challenges that are often either invisible to adults or exaggerated beyond reason. It can be difficult for parents, educators, and other adults to talk about these challenges with young people, especially if they feel intimidated by youth who navigate sites like Facebook or master video games effortlessly. This report aims to document what we learned through the Focus Dialogues, the first cross-generational online conversation on digital media and ethics.
It will highlight how adults and youth think about ethical issues online through the use of direct quotes and information from the Dialogues and provide context around what we believe is the first step towards addressing issues relating to ethics in the digital age. How to Talk About Life Online. Tips for teachers to help students be safe on the Internet. This how-to article accompanies the feature "Social-Networking Sites Draw Teens In. " Diane Crockett, a teacher at the Brevig Mission School, in Brevig Mission, Alaska, population 278, decided to tackle social networking as a class topic after she saw some of the MySpace pages created by her 12-year-old daughter's friends. She noticed background graphics showing marijuana leaves, public comments that revealed highly personal information, and photographs of kids in sexy poses. "They were misrepresenting themselves and their identity, and it seriously concerned me," Crockett says. To encourage more critical thinking about life online, Crockett developed a multipart digital project about identity, which helped her win a statewide technology award.
The project integrated a variety of Web 2.0 tools and addressed academic standards, particularly writing. Privacy: How much information should friends reveal online? 5 Fun and Safe Social Networks for Children. The Case For Social Media in Schools. A year after seventh grade teacher Elizabeth Delmatoff started a pilot social media program in her Portland, Oregon classroom, 20% of students school-wide were completing extra assignments for no credit, grades had gone up more than 50%, and chronic absenteeism was reduced by more than a third. For the first time in its history, the school met its adequate yearly progress goal for absenteeism.
At a time when many teachers are made wary by reports of predators and bullies online, social media in the classroom is not the most popular proposition. Teachers like Delmatoff, however, are embracing it rather than banning it. They argue that the educational benefits of social media far outweigh the risks, and they worry that schools are missing out on an opportunity to incorporate learning tools the students already know how to use. What started as a Facebook-like forum where Delmatoff posted assignments has grown into a social media component for almost every subject. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7 Fantastic Free Social Media Tools for Teachers.
Mashable’s 7 Fantastic Free Social Media Tools. Teens Use Social Media to Protest Media Ban. 6 Ways Social Media is Changing Education. Schools and Students Clash Over Use of Technology. 8 Social Media Sites Just for Kids. 5 Ways Twitter Has Changed Education. The Pitfalls and Promises of Facebook, Social Media, and Kids. Should Parents Have the Backdoor Key to Kids’ Facebook Accounts? Children and Media. 4 Tips for Integrating Social Media Into the Classroom. Why Banning Social Media Often Backfires. Respond to the Naysayers with these Answers to FAQs about Using Cell Phones for Learning. Teaching Generation Text. Inspiring Ways to Use Social Media In the Classroom. The 2 Hottest Educational Social Networks You’re Not Yet Using. Twitter for 1st Graders? - Teaching Now.
Social Media in Education - News Articles & Court Case Examples. Social Media Best Practices for Educators. Cell Phones in School. AUPs + RUPs. Social Media Policies. The 60-Second Guide To Smartphones In Education. Connecting digital literacy between home and school. School Administrators Seen to Embrace New Digital Devices. Social Media Here to Stay by @bcurrie5. The 10 Best and Worst Ways Social Media Impacts Education.