How Social Media & Game Mechanics Can Motivate Students. Patrick Supanc is the President of College and Career Readiness at Pearson, where he focuses on new market development, digital innovation and product strategy.
He has been a teacher in Indonesia, an education policy adviser at the World Bank and UN, and led K-12 market development at Blackboard. Social media and online games have the potential to convey 21st century skills that aren’t necessarily part of school curricula — things like time management, leadership, teamwork and creative problem solving that will prepare teens for success in college and beyond. Making the transition between a highly structured environment in high school to a self-driven, unstructured environment in college can prove a huge challenge for many kids. Educators spend a lot of time thinking about how to fix this problem. The solution doesn’t lie solely with games, but a lot of the psychology that motivates teens to play games holds potential.
The Status Update and Checkins. At a Tech-Savvy School, Smart Questions About City's New Social Media Policy – SchoolBook. Students and teachers at the NYC iSchool in Manhattan greeted the city's recently announced social media policy with a shrug, because it won't change how they operate.
But the topic inspired thoughtful discussion at this small high school that routinely collaborates around technology. A few wondered whether it was too restrictive, or would scare off some teachers from experimenting with new technology. The guidelines state that teachers cannot "friend" or follow students through sites like Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, Google+ and YouTube. But they can ask students to join professional school pages or forums related to a particular class. “It seems to me it’s just a lot of common sense: don’t get into inappropriate relationships with kids,” said the iSchool's assistant principal, Jesse Spevack.
Mr. Schools Go Into the 'Cloud' to Embrace the Popularity of Social Media. Several start-up companies have begun offering cloud-based platforms that combine education and social media.
Companies like Teamie, based in Singapore, provide software that lets teachers create, share and manage academic content, and also let students collaborate on assignments on platforms that are similar to the “walls” used on Facebook. Learning management systems, or L.M.S.’s, have been around since the late 1990s, when Blackboard, a company in Washington D.C., introduced an online platform to help educators customize course management. Today, there are more than 60 companies providing such services worldwide. Social media: mistakes high school & college graduates make. (CNN) - Graduates at both the high school and college levels can easily get lost in the complexities of money management, planning and work ethic.
Schools take on social media. Schools consider social media limits after scandals. Paul Roberts was "Teacher of the Year" when he was arrested and fired from his job teaching math at Stafford Middle School.
Administrators allege the 52-year-old educator's Facebook conversations with two students featured lewd dialogue peppered with "profanity of a sexual nature. " Similar incidents are cropping up across the country as social media tools proliferate. In January, a California teacher was charged with sexually assaulting a 14-year-old boy. Investigators say that relationship began with text messages, Facebook postings and instant messaging. Social Media - DC Public Schools, Washington, DC.
University gossip site shuttered after salacious comments, classist remarks. Library Whispers is the latest higher-education gossip forum to go under By Dennis Carter, Assistant Editor Read more by Denny Carter May 16th, 2012 Library Whispers had 1,000 comments in its first week.
A student-run Cambridge University website meant to be an innocent exchange between frequenters to the school’s library devolved into a “forum of hate” brimming with disparaging comments, forcing Cambridge students to pull the plug. Library Whispers, a Twitter-style blog inviting anonymous comments about campus goings on, was shut down this week after the site was flooded with the “worst sort of bullying and abusive messages,” Oliver Rees, a Library Whispers cofounder, wrote in a message to the blog’s readers. The furor over the Britain-based Library Whispers was similar to controversy caused by an American college gossip Juicy Campus, which shut down in February 2009 after 18 months of operation. Another commenter wrote: “Don’t worry she was a female arts student.
Younger Generation Embracing A New View Of Privacy. Would you give up your privacy for a free BlackBerry?
For four years, nearly 200 high school students in Dallas voluntarily allowed every text, email, and IM to be monitored. That these youth would sign off on such an invasion of privacy, especially in light of the content that was discovered within their communication, shows how much the next generation has changed their views on privacy. Students allowed a team of researchers to capture all of their messaging, whether it was completely innocent or contained swearing, sexual references, and even drug deals, to the tune of 500,000 texts per month in exchange for a free BlackBerry! With a $3.4 million grant from the NIH, Dr. Marion Underwood from the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences at The University of Texas-Dallas embarked on the study with the goal of investigating the formation and maintenance of friendships as well as the dynamics of social and physical aggression.
An 8 Year-Old Does Social Learning. For those that know me well, I’m a proud papa to three young goats aged 8, 6 and 4.
My beloved is also in the education ranks (we met in Montreal through our B.Ed program at McGill University) so our goats have little choice in the matter of an all-education smorgasbord upbringing. The goats may end up demented, but that’s another story. ve got a story to share for any education institution at any level out there that believes learning isn’t part formal, informal and social. Location Based Safety Guide. Privacy is a freedom we give ourselves.
It is spring break. Facebook is full of my friends saying where they are (with their whole families), and it looks like most of them are posting publicly. Teachers' Comprehensive Guide to The Use of Social Networking in Education. Social Media In Schools. Socialmediaguidelines / FrontPage. Social Media Guidelines for Schools This is a collaborative project to generate Social Media Guidelines for school districts.
The goal of this guideline is to provide instructional employees, staff, students, administrators, parents and the school district community direction when using social media applications both inside and outside the classroom. Contributors - If you can contribute in any way to this wiki please add your name to the Contributor's page. X District Social Media Guidelines The X School District realizes that part of 21st century learning is adapting to the changing methods of communication.
Faculty & Staff Guidelines Student Guidelines Parent Guidelines District Recommended Social Media Sites Examples of Social Media Permission Forms Helpful Links. Apocalypse: The Network Event Horizon « Martin’s Weblog. Networks are central to meaning, culture and evolution. Increases Engagement. Communicating in 140-character segments may seem to contradict the goals of generally long-winded academia, but a new study has found that the two are less opposed than one might think. Students in the study who were asked to contribute to class discussions and complete assignments using Twitter increased their engagement over a semester more than twice as much as a control group.
The study used a 19-question survey based on the National Survey of Student Engagement to measure student engagement at the beginning and end of a seminar course for first year students in pre-health professional programs. Comprehensive Guide. Guidelines for School-Steven Anderson. Produced in collaboration with Facebook. Social media is fast becoming as ubiquitous as the air we breathe. In recent months, many schools and districts around the country have taken steps to create social media policies and guidelines for their students and staff.
Tweeting For Schools. Awhile ago, I wrote a post entitled, “What Should A Networked Educational Leader Tweet About? 10 Commandments of Twitter for Academics - Do Your Job Better. By Katrina Gulliver Most of my friends (the ones who are not already on Twitter) have heard my Twitter pitch, and it's true that since joining several years ago I've become quite an evangelist. Recently over dinner, a colleague told me he had never really gotten the point of Twitter, but now that he had a book to promote, he wished he had followers he could share it with.
12 Reasons to Get Your School District Tweeting This Summer.