How Should Social Media Be Taught in Schools? Before we ask how, I think we should address why social media should be taught in schools. Students may appear to be comfortable using social media, but don’t assume that they know how to use it appropriately in a classroom setting. Educators Baiyun Chen and Thomas Bryer from the University of Central Florida conducted research on instructional strategies for social media last year, and they pointed out that, “one of the common themes in previous research is that students use social media for personal reasons, but rarely for educational or learning purposes.” With this in mind, teaching students how to appropriately use social media becomes not just a good idea; it becomes a school’s responsibility. The Gift of Social Learning Social media can provide two things that are critical for student engagement in a literate environment: audience and purpose.
Audience refers to those who will see what students create and share. Purpose is the reason students are doing the work. The 33 Digital Skills Every 21st Century Teacher should Have. By EdTech Team Updated on march 2, 2015 : The original list that was created in 2011 comprised 33 skills , after reviewing it we decided to do some merging and finally ended up with the 20 skills below. The 21st century teacher should be able to : 1- Create and edit digital audio Here are some tools for teachers to develop this skill :Free Audio Tools for Teachers 2- Use Social bookmarking to share resources with and between learners Here are some tools for teachers to develop this skill : A List of Best Bookmarking Websites for Teachers 3- Use blogs and wikis to create online platforms for students Here are some tools for teachers to develop this skill : Great Tools to Create Protected Blogs and Webpages for your Class 4- Exploit digital images for classroom use Here are some tools for teachers to develop this skill :Web Tools to Edit Pictures without Installing any softwareTools to Convert Photos into Cartoons.
Technology & Education. iPads in education. A Printable Guide to Social Media [#Infographic] Cram a dozen educators into a conference room and ask them to name the most popular social media tools used by students, and it’s a safe bet everybody at the table could rattle off the top two: Facebook and Twitter. But those are far from the only online applications making inroads in schools. As administrators warm to engaging students through social media, the list of potential resources at their disposal grows longer by the day. Facebook and Twitter are the obvious choices. But there are other options — Tumblr, the online blog tool, for instance; YouTube, which doesn’t always get the social credit it deserves; and Google+, the less popular but still-growing social network launched by the search engine giant as an alternative to Facebook, to name three.
Of course, if naming the latest social media tools seems tough, learning how to use them all is harder still. Is there a social media application not listed here that you’d like to learn more about? Lesson Plan: Teach Students to Put the 'You' in YouTube. Lesson Description Communication is an essential skill that all students must develop to function successfully in both the physical and digital worlds. That's what "Finding Youth Voice" is about: helping young people develop a perspective and articulate their ideas in meaningful ways using digital media.
This project hinges on the passion and motivation of the students, who are tasked with telling personal stories in digital form, and that of the teachers who mentor them. The diversity of the technology tools that are available for student use also will determine how creative they can be in the documentary films, music videos, animated shorts, audio recordings or other multimedia projects they produce. What matters most is that their own perspective drives the work. Video tends to be a popular choice among students, so this lesson plan details how to proceed with that type of project.
Subject Area This project was developed for high school students but can be adapted for any grade level. The 17 Best Twitter Hashtags for Education (2012 ) Talking about Twitter brings to mind the power of hashtags. According to Twitter Help Center the symbol #, called hashtag, is used to mark keywords or topics in a tweet. It was created organically by Twitter users as a way to categorize messages. Educational Technology and Mobile Learning has already posted a guide on the use of hashtags in education. Check it out HERE Below is a list of the Edublog Award finalistsfor the best Twitter hashtag for education in 2012 This is a hashtag dedicated to the use of mobile technologies in education8-# ntchat ( new Teacher chat )This chat was created to provide weekly mentoring and focus on the needs of new, new to the profession and pre-service teachers.9- # pedagoofridayThis is another great hashtag for teachers and educators.
TechnologyInEducationFourKeyComponents. Mindcraft i barnehagen | Pedagogisk Praksis. Noen av de eldste barna i barnehagen har forsøkt seg på spillet Minecraft. De bygger hus, de lager kjellere, bygger vegger, setter inn dører, diskuterer materiale, skaffer seg mat. De samler blomster, spiller sammen, samarbeider, møter hverandre i spillet mm. Vi leker oss litt med dette spillet og ser at det har et stort potensialet for å skape sammen og samarbeide. Det kan gjøres veldig enkelt med at de samarbeider om å bygge ett eller flere hus på en iPad, det kan også avanseres slik at de kan bruke to iPader. Hus har vært et tema på basen noen måneder, de har laget hus i leire, malt og tegnet, lekt med digitale dukkehus, de har tegnet interiør, laget i trolldeig og laget hus i skoesker med forskjellige materialer (mer om dette siden).
I Minecraft kan man møte forskjellige dyr og skapninger, noen av dem kan være skumle som skjellett, creepers, zombies og edderkopper. I spillet kan man også møte andre dyr, f.eks ulv som kan temmes. 21st century learning. The Future Of Education Eliminates The Classroom, Because The World Is Your Class. This probably sounds familiar: You are with a group of friends arguing about some piece of trivia or historical fact. Someone says, "Wait, let me look this up on Wikipedia," and proceeds to read the information out loud to the whole group, thus resolving the argument. Don’t dismiss this as a trivial occasion. It represents a learning moment, or more precisely, a microlearning moment, and it foreshadows a much larger transformation—to what I call socialstructed learning.
Socialstructed learning is an aggregation of microlearning experiences drawn from a rich ecology of content and driven not by grades but by social and intrinsic rewards. The microlearning moment may last a few minutes, hours, or days (if you are absorbed in reading something, tinkering with something, or listening to something from which you just can’t walk away). Socialstructed learning may be the future, but the foundations of this kind of education lie far in the past. What is digital literacy? Digital literacy is the topic that made the ETMOOC learning space so irresistible to me… I think as educators we spout off about wanting our students to be digitally literate, but not many of us (myself included) have a firm grasp about what that actually means, and quite a number of us are still attempting to become digitally literate ourselves.
Whatever that means. It turns out, defining digital literacy isn’t such an easy task. The etmooc community was fortunate enough to hear Doug Belshaw speak on this topic in a recent webinar. I’ve followed Doug on Twitter for quite some time, and it turns out his dissertation investigates just what is digital literacy… and his TED talk can be viewed here. Doug explained that digital literacy is quite ambiguous, and he doesn’t have all of the answers when it comes to defining these terms.
He made a point to ask, How can we define digital literacy when we don’t know what literacy is? All questions I shall continue to ponder. Educational Technology and Mobile Learning. Barn lär sig skriva och läsa snabbare med IT-undervisning. – Barnen lär sig läsa snabbare, det vill säga de får upp hastigheten i läsningen, men framför allt förbättras skrivandet och kommunikationsförmågan oerhört mycket.
Eleverna skriver längre texter med bättre struktur, tydligare innehåll och ett mer genomarbetat språk, säger Åke Grönlund. Metoden har utvecklats och testats i skolor i Sollentuna och den bygger på att barn redan i tidig läs- och skrivutveckling kan börja med själva förståelsen. Det är inte nödvändigt att vänta tills barnen kan skriva snygga bokstäver tillräckligt snabbt för att kunna uttrycka allt de vill säga. – Det är ett mödosamt arbete att forma bokstäver med blyertspenna, i alla fall för små barn. Studien är publicerad i Computers & Education Underlätta själva skrivandetI Sollentuna använder skolorna surfplattor men de benämns som lärplattor för att det ska vara tydligt vad de används till. . – Barnen får publicera berättelser på en webbsida som alla har tillgång till. Tekniken gör att alla kan vara med på sina villkor.
ICAICTE 2013. The Norwegian Centre for ICT in Education | Senter for IKT i utdanningen. The purpose of the Norwegian Centre for ICT in Education is to contribute to the realization and the development of ICT policy. It shall further cooperate with relevant public and private institutions. The centre will also participate in international cooperation. Our main goals are to improve the quality of education and to improve learning outcomes and learning for children, pupils and students thourgh use of ICT in education.
The Centre works to ensure that ICT contributes to improved quality, enhanced learning and better learning strategies among Norwegian pupils, apprentices and students. Ict.qxd. SYNKRON nr 1 2013.