The role of social media in learning

What is social media?
is a computer – mediated tool that allow allow people
to create, share or exchange information, career interests,
ideas, and pictures/videos in virtual communities and
networks.

defined as "a group of Internet-based applications
that build on the ideological and technological foundations
of Web 2.0, and that allow the creation and exchange of
user-generated content."

depends on mobile and web-based technologies to create
highly interactive platforms through which individuals and
communities share, co-create, discuss, and modify user-generated
content.

Social Media in Education
This workshop will introduce how to incorporate social media tools into learning
activities. When used properly, social media tools can boost student engagement, link
students to content experts, find online classroom lessons, and help them establish an
online body of work/establish their brand.

 90% of college students visit social networking sites on a regular basis
 Social learning is learners learning from each other
 Today's students want to document their feelings and insights in a highly timely
manner
 Social learning can increase comprehension of material and create new channels for
students to learn.
WHY IS SOCIAL LEARNING IMPORTANT?
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 Many instructors are interested in learning how to add social media tools into their
curriculum, but they aren’t sure how
 Social media sites can be a huge distraction for students who aimlessly click through
sites
 It can be challenging to find ways to incorporate activities with social media that
promote actual learning.
Do students want to keep their Books and Beers
separate?

 Facebook is the world's largest social
network, with more than 900 million
users. People mainly use it to connect
with important people in their life.
Facebook is King

 Good: students can use it to connect with each other outside of the classroom.
 Good: students can create a Facebook Group to form online study groups
 Bad: students may want to add you as a “Friend”
Facebook Pros & Cons

 Build a Facebook application: Computer science students can learn valuable skills for the future by
taking on a project to create an app that can be used on Facebook.
 Brainstorm: Ask students to collaborate and brainstorm on your classroom's Facebook page.
 News gathering: Your classroom can follow media outlets or public figures relevant to your latest
classroom discussions.
 Archived videos: Important lectures, slides, and more can be shared and saved on Facebook.
 Familiarize yourself with students: In large classes, it can sometimes be hard to remember each and
every student. Facebook makes it a little easier to connect faces with names.
 Flashcardlet: Using Flashcardlet, you can create your own flash cards that students can study on
Facebook.
Ways to Use Facebook
http://www.onlinecollege.org/2012/05/21/100-ways-you-should-be-using-
facebook-in-your-classroom-updated/Source: 100 Ways You Should Be Using Facebook in Your Classroom

 Twitter allows you to post your ideas in just 140 characters
 Letters, numbers, symbols, punctuation and spaces all count as
characters on Twitter.
 What all of this means is, you have to be concise. You have to
know exactly what you want to say, and say it in as few words as
possible.
Twitter
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 Connect students with content experts who have a Twitter profile
Ways to Use Twitter

 Create fake pages: Ask
students to create fake
profiles for historical figures,
fictional characters, and
more.
Ways to Use Twitter

 Allow students to tweet their own notes during lessons and
share with their peers
 Have students follow you and ask them to tweet you about their
learning process – including difficulties they face or resources
they want to share
Ways to Use Twitter
Source: http://www.teachhub.com/50-ways-use-twitter-classroom

 Virtual guest speakers – start a lesson with a video that grabs students’
attention. YouTube can be great for brining in different perspectives.
Audio visual is higher up on Bloom’s Taxonomy.
Ways to use YouTube

 Have students create a narrated presentation and upload it to YouTube
 Record your lectures and post them on YouTube for students to view –
students can rewatch!
 Create an introduction video
 Create a playlist of video related to a concept – this saves students from
wasting their time searching for useless or unsuitable information. Check
YouTube.com/Teachers for examples
 Video Everywhere
Ways to use YouTube

 SlideShare is a Web 2.0 based slide hosting service. SlideShare is the world's largest
community for sharing presentations. With 60 million monthly visitors and 130 million
page views
 SlideShare was recently voted amongst the World's Top 10 tools for education & e-
learning.
 There’s a lot of professional content on ShareShare
SlideShare

 Tumblr, Wordpress, or Blogger are popular options
 Similar to LinkedIn, students or faculty can use these blogging sites to create their
online brand.
 Blogging is a mechanism for students to show off their creative writing skills.
 An easy way to get a student into blogging it to suggest that they copy the text from
their discussion board posts into their blog.
Blogging

1. Blogging
2. Collaborative calendaring
3. Podcasting
4. RSS Readers
5. Collaborative mind mapping
6. Micro-blogging / micro – sharing
7. Photo sharing
8. Screencast sharing
9. Presentation sharing
10. Video sharing
EXAMPLES OF USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA FOR LEARNING

11. Social bookmarking
12. Collaborative editing
13. Collaborative working
14. Collaborative presentations
15. Social networking
16. Personalized start pages
17. Integrated social / collaboration environment
EXAMPLES OF USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA FOR LEARNING

Do’s in using social media
1.Do be selective
2.Do model good behavior
3.Do promote your work
4.Do practice positivity
5.Do move toward face – to – face interactions
6.Use a strong password.

Do’s in using social media
7. Use privacy settings. Insist your friends use theirs too.
8. Use HTTPS to connect to your social networking sites whenever possible, especially when connecting from a
public hotspot. Be wary if your social networking service only uses HTTP for login credentials only.
9. Verify friend/follower requests.
10. Verify links, attachments, downloads, emails, anything sent to you.
11. Investigate exactly what information any third-party add-ons, games, extensions, etc. will be privy to.
12. Read up on the security tips and instructions provided by the Social Network itself, as well as what trusted
security professionals and sources have to say.

Dont’s in using media
1. Don’t be fake
2. Don’t share sadness
3. Don’t believe everything you read
4. Don’t avoid other task
5. Don’t be know – it – all
6. Give away your password or use the same password for any other services.
7. Put in any more information than you absolutely have to.
8. Upload anything you wouldn't want everyone to see.

All is well, all is well, all is well
May the odds be ever in your favor
Good vibes =)
AlDub you

Prepared by:
JARED RAM A. JUEZAN
Teacher I
October 26, 2015
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