Url [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxySmrn-IwQ]
Url[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iReY3W9ZkLU] (Below)
Url[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIzE0kV_JeE&feature=related]
Wednesday, 26 October 2011
Friday, 14 October 2011
Social Media Lesson Plan and Rubric - English, Language Arts
According to "Literacy with ICT Across the Curriculum - A continuum Model - Resource for Developing Computer Literacy - 06"
Students develop their literacy with ICT (information - communication - technology) by a process of inquiry, this inquiry involves:
- Planning a Question
- Gathering and Making Sense
- Produce to Show Understanding
- Communication
- Reflecting on their own Learning
Here is an Overview of a Sample Lesson - Ideas like this and more - from Url: [http://www.newsflashenglish.com/] Check it out!
Lesson: English - Language Arts, Social MediaActivating Students Knowledge:- Activate students prior knowledge about Social Media by asking students - (Either: through a blog - poll or twitter) Or mark questions on smart board or spoken word - teachers can even use power-point to post questions.
- Ask Student: How many of you use Facebook?
- Have students answer poll by using their mobile devices, itouch's ipads, laptop computers etc.
- Once poll is completed - Ask students: What is a social network? or What do you know about Social Media? What is Facebook?
- Get students to think about this individually, writing down anything they can/think they know about social media.
- Get students into pairs (Think-Pair-Share) to share their ideas.
- Have students share what they have written with the rest of the class, it can be through a photo, notes from an itouch..etc
- Teacher opens blog, wiki, or twitter account and lets students read/watch/or listen from your social media account one interesting article/video clip/song etc on social media in the classroom.
- Let students read, then get students into small co-operative groups to get answers to teacher questions to fill out on a large poster paper (answers and what they found interesting)
- What is social networking? Give examples. Do you have a favorite Social Network? why? What do you think tomorrows new technology will bring us? How will it help us in the English Classroom?
- Also ask students to highlight any vocabulary from the blog article/video/song that they had trouble understanding.
- Do a gallery walk of all the posters, and get students to point out commonalities or differences in each.
References
Works Cited
Blankenship, M. (2011). How Social Media Can and Should Impact Higher Education. The Education Digest, 76(7), 39. Retrieved September 20, 2011, from the ERIC database.
Flanagin, A., & Metzger, M. (2008). Digital Media and Youth: Unparalleled Opportunity and Unprecedented Responsibility. The MIT Press, 10, 5-28.
Prenksy, M. (2001). Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants. On the Horizon,9(5), 1-6.
Flanagin, A., & Metzger, M. (2008). Digital Media and Youth: Unparalleled Opportunity and Unprecedented Responsibility. The MIT Press, 10, 5-28.
Prenksy, M. (2001). Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants. On the Horizon,9(5), 1-6.
Rheingold, H. (2008). Using Social Media to Teach Social Media. Forum: Going Digital, 23, 25.
Wikipedia page: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media]
Why is Social Media Important for Teachers?
Url: [http://edudemic.com/2011/01/the-ultimate-teachers-guide-to-social-media/]
This is like asking: Why should teachers care about their students? Where they come from...etc Because the student of today, like it or not comes from a digital world. In an article by Howard Rheingold, he mentions how these digital natives or students, carry mobile phones, media players, game devices, laptop computers with them almost everywhere and know how to use them. He mentions how these students also "know the Internet not as a transformative new technology, but as a fixture in their environment". This in turn effects teachers because these are the students that they will be developing lessons for, TODAY! These digital natives are somewhat self-guided in the ways of technology and learning, but are still in need of guidance. So if teachers cannot speak the digital language of their students, then how can they offer guidance?
By teachers creating a online social media classroom, they create (and surveillance) a space for ideas, questions and conversations to grow into knowledge. Teachers should learn about social media, and understand in detail how their students are using social media in their lives. The Internet is a good start, as it provides digital production tools and information to distribution networks that "enable people to mobilize new types of collective action"(Rheingold, 2).
Outlining this idea is an article entitled: Digital Media and Youth: Unparalleled Opportunity and Unprecedented Responsibility - by Andrew J. Flanagin and Miriam J. Metzger. It gives great insight as to why teachers should care about social media. "With the sudden explosion of digital media content and access devices in the last generation, there is now more information available to more people from more sources than at any time in human history. Pockets of limited availability by geography or status notwithstanding, people now have ready access to almost inconceivably vast information repositories that are increasingly portable, accessible, and interactive in both delivery and formation. Basic human activities have changed as a result, and new possibilities have emerged". Teachers should be understanding of social media as a new possibility for student learning in the classroom, even if they are not fully convinced of its legitimacy. The article also continues to note that "the process by which people locate, organize, and coordinate groups of individuals with shared interests, the number and nature of information and news sources available, and the ability to solicit and share opinions and ideas across myriad topics have all undergone dramatic change as a result of interconnected digital media". This is language in which many digital natives are fluent. So teachers should at least attempt at speaking their language or trying to understand where they are coming from - technologically or digitally speaking.
Community production and culture (Wikipedia, Youtube, Flickr, the blogosphere) These tools, free and open are connected and open educational resources. Students are moving from a private, to a now public voice as a new type of self-expression. These students can learn public participation, and this is beneficial to learning outcomes of students. Teachers want active participation from their students? Well, students have the power to connect to each other with the click of a button, and can form online communities through social networking. Teachers want to give students a voice, social media lets them speak - through mobile/electronic devices that is. Social media is something easily implemented by teachers, they just need the willingness to learn new things, and to keep up with their digitally inclined students.
It all comes down to teacher choice. Make it. Or don't.
Url: [http://jameshooper.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/social-media.jpg]
Why Teachers Can Use Social Media and Technology to Create an Effective Learning Experience!
Why does education have this trend toward non-adoption to technological means?
Url [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44629756/ns/news-picture_stories/displaymode/1247/?beginSlide=1]
Technology, or tools are available - how can these tools be used by teachers and students to enable an effective learning experience?
It is important to keep in mind how the digital natives of today are interested in learning, and how teacher's can adapt to these students. Digital natives independently learn through social media via their mobile devices, computers, laptops, ipods or ipads etc. Teachers can use the way in which these students learn on their own, and use it to engage these students in the course/class work... By implementing technology!
So, how can technology be used in the classroom?
Truth is most digital natives are using social media as a tool in their everyday life, so utilizing social media to help students learn new things can be a way to re-thinking certain stubborn teaching/learning methods. Social media can be a tool to get kids interested and involved by looking into others personal blogs for information - and if teachers post relevant articles, journals, videos, or even book references for their students to read, it can be beneficial to the class community. These blogs or wikis can hold anything, for anyone to read, spanning all types of course or subject material.
Technology can be implemented in the classroom via overhead projector with a connection to show/follow interesting tweets, feeds, blogs, other posts and more! Right away students can engage themselves in the class, and get interactive with what the teacher has to say. Whether its in person or through social media.
Heres an example: At the end of the class teachers can ask students to open the class blog (that is hoping you have one!) to answer interesting and related questions for debate or discussion on the subject material. Non-convergent questions, that are open ended and debatable can get students typing!
Next class have the blog open and showing as the students walk in. Have some answers and possible back and forth feedback or feeds that students have left on the blog. Starting the class, there can be a class discussion to the beginning of a new unit or topic on the questions and answers from the blog!
Why, why why use these technologies? Social media?
Technology, or tools are available - how can these tools be used by teachers and students to enable an effective learning experience?
It is important to keep in mind how the digital natives of today are interested in learning, and how teacher's can adapt to these students. Digital natives independently learn through social media via their mobile devices, computers, laptops, ipods or ipads etc. Teachers can use the way in which these students learn on their own, and use it to engage these students in the course/class work... By implementing technology!
So, how can technology be used in the classroom?
Truth is most digital natives are using social media as a tool in their everyday life, so utilizing social media to help students learn new things can be a way to re-thinking certain stubborn teaching/learning methods. Social media can be a tool to get kids interested and involved by looking into others personal blogs for information - and if teachers post relevant articles, journals, videos, or even book references for their students to read, it can be beneficial to the class community. These blogs or wikis can hold anything, for anyone to read, spanning all types of course or subject material.
Technology can be implemented in the classroom via overhead projector with a connection to show/follow interesting tweets, feeds, blogs, other posts and more! Right away students can engage themselves in the class, and get interactive with what the teacher has to say. Whether its in person or through social media.
Heres an example: At the end of the class teachers can ask students to open the class blog (that is hoping you have one!) to answer interesting and related questions for debate or discussion on the subject material. Non-convergent questions, that are open ended and debatable can get students typing!
Next class have the blog open and showing as the students walk in. Have some answers and possible back and forth feedback or feeds that students have left on the blog. Starting the class, there can be a class discussion to the beginning of a new unit or topic on the questions and answers from the blog!
Why, why why use these technologies? Social media?
Communication
Gathering of Information
Creating of Information
Collaboration
Presenting new ideas
Motivation
It is where society is heading RIGHT NOW! That does not mean things could not possibly change, and to become too dependant on social media in the classroom can become more of a stress than beneficial to effective learning. Networks are open to students, and social media lends very easily to mass communication. Getting your entire class to talk for hours outside of school about relevant course material?
Not going to happen...
Social Media makes it happen. Creating efficient, effective means for students... Digital natives to learn on their own, and with their classmates online.
Reminder: Social Media is a tool - implementation of social media does not have to happen every single class, nor should it be the incorporated into every lesson. Broadening teacher horizons is a great idea.
As well please check out this url link! 100 ways to use social media in the classroom!
http://www.onlineuniversities.com/blog/2010/05/100-inspiring-ways-to-use-social-media-in-the-classroom/
Reminder: Social Media is a tool - implementation of social media does not have to happen every single class, nor should it be the incorporated into every lesson. Broadening teacher horizons is a great idea.
As well please check out this url link! 100 ways to use social media in the classroom!
http://www.onlineuniversities.com/blog/2010/05/100-inspiring-ways-to-use-social-media-in-the-classroom/
Thursday, 13 October 2011
How are Digital Native Students DIFFERENT?!
How Are These Students Different?
Digital Natives are different from us... How? They were born into a digital world. They do not know what it is like to live in a world without computers. These Digital Natives are knowledgeable with such Internet networking systems as social media. But what is social media? Wikipedia defines it 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." Social media are media for social interaction, as a superset beyond social communication. Enabled by ubiquitously accessible and scalable communication techniques, social media substantially change the way of communication between organizations, communities, as well as individuals (Wikipedia).
Social media is not an uncommon way of communicating or online socializing for digital natives - These digital natives differ from generations before them because of the technologies at their disposal. Digital natives are digital learners, and are forced to take in so much so quickly. Digital natives have been subjected from an early age to constant technological innovations and advances, and are forced to re-adapt constantly. Digital natives thrive through social media with intrinsic rewards and available constant and instant feedback to their shared ideas online. As well, according to Marc Prensky, “today’s students think and process information fundamentally differently from their predecessors” (pp 1). Digital technology is arguably the reasoning for the differing in students thought processes or brain function. Digital natives are storing so much information, and their thinking patterns may be different from that of previous generations. Thus these digital natives/students are different, or disconnected to previous generations who are attempting to keep up to these students who have “spent their entire lives surrounded by and using computers, videogames, digital music players, video cams, cell phones, and all the other toys and tools of the digital age”(pp1). These separate generations are experiencing technology differently, and their languages on technological subjects may sometimes clash. Can other generations not learn from difference? 
Picture Reference: url [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44629756/ns/news-picture_stories/displaymode/1247/?beginSlide=1]
and [http://www.go-gulf.com/60seconds.jpg]
Alisha's Personal Perspective on Social Media - and - Digital Natives
TEACHERS
I personally believe that implementing social media in the classroom can be both beneficial for the children or students of today (the digital natives) as well as the teacher. Digital Natives are just as their label describes them... They are knowledgeable with digital life, realities, thus making them digital learners. If the classroom is not interactive through digital means (using technology - social media - etc), then students are going to have a difficult time relating or achieving your learning objectives for them. Whats great about social media, is that it is not restricted to in-class usage. Your students can interact through social media or networking to do constructive work outside of class. Student's are easily accessible, and can easily share their thoughts through social media instead of speaking out in class. Teachers as well can share ideas or appropriate and relative class material through their blogs/wikis/twitter accounts, and have them open and available for students.
So teachers who still fear technology, and wish to maintain a traditional classroom - one in which they ALONE are comfortable..think of this.....
What if there is not enough time at the end of the lesson to answer students questions? What if the students are in a heated debate about something they learned....and when the bell rings they are forced to pack up their bags and leave their ideas and their thoughts to deflate and dissolve...to be forgotten or lost?
Ideas are powerful. Ideas are limitless. Ideas can be used to create.
Social Media is the outlet for fostering students voices. These ideas and thoughts can be shared with others in the class, and the debate can continue. Ideas can grow, and students can think concretely, analytically, deliberately and independently - without a teacher judging their every word. Why not let other students correct misconceptions, misinterpretations or recognize biases of other students. Let them talk it out! People in education are always discussing the importance of group work and co-operative learning as a means to achieving student success.
If Social media is implemented positively, and properly, i believe it can work just as well as co-operative learning or group work.
Thinking about my teacher and technology class - my generation (more specifically my classmates) seem to have a difficult time relating to the digital natives of today, specifically because we grew up (or at least some of us) at some part in our lives without a computer. Yet, these digital natives have never lived without a computer! Those in education are always saying..."Get to know your students!" "Child-centered learning is important". How can you understand your students if you don't recognize the digital world in which they were born into, and the digital-world in which you share together?
Teachers are always having to re-think and re-adapt - so why is Social Media such a tender and controversial subject for parents and teachers when it is incorporated into the classroom?
Thanks for hearing out my perspective on Social Media and Digital Natives...now..............
Check out this Video: I enjoyed it, and i hope you enjoy it too! Pay close attention to the end of the video were Social Media and ideas are discussed -
I personally believe that implementing social media in the classroom can be both beneficial for the children or students of today (the digital natives) as well as the teacher. Digital Natives are just as their label describes them... They are knowledgeable with digital life, realities, thus making them digital learners. If the classroom is not interactive through digital means (using technology - social media - etc), then students are going to have a difficult time relating or achieving your learning objectives for them. Whats great about social media, is that it is not restricted to in-class usage. Your students can interact through social media or networking to do constructive work outside of class. Student's are easily accessible, and can easily share their thoughts through social media instead of speaking out in class. Teachers as well can share ideas or appropriate and relative class material through their blogs/wikis/twitter accounts, and have them open and available for students.
So teachers who still fear technology, and wish to maintain a traditional classroom - one in which they ALONE are comfortable..think of this.....
What if there is not enough time at the end of the lesson to answer students questions? What if the students are in a heated debate about something they learned....and when the bell rings they are forced to pack up their bags and leave their ideas and their thoughts to deflate and dissolve...to be forgotten or lost?
Ideas are powerful. Ideas are limitless. Ideas can be used to create.
Social Media is the outlet for fostering students voices. These ideas and thoughts can be shared with others in the class, and the debate can continue. Ideas can grow, and students can think concretely, analytically, deliberately and independently - without a teacher judging their every word. Why not let other students correct misconceptions, misinterpretations or recognize biases of other students. Let them talk it out! People in education are always discussing the importance of group work and co-operative learning as a means to achieving student success.
If Social media is implemented positively, and properly, i believe it can work just as well as co-operative learning or group work.
Thinking about my teacher and technology class - my generation (more specifically my classmates) seem to have a difficult time relating to the digital natives of today, specifically because we grew up (or at least some of us) at some part in our lives without a computer. Yet, these digital natives have never lived without a computer! Those in education are always saying..."Get to know your students!" "Child-centered learning is important". How can you understand your students if you don't recognize the digital world in which they were born into, and the digital-world in which you share together?
Teachers are always having to re-think and re-adapt - so why is Social Media such a tender and controversial subject for parents and teachers when it is incorporated into the classroom?
Thanks for hearing out my perspective on Social Media and Digital Natives...now..............
Check out this Video: I enjoyed it, and i hope you enjoy it too! Pay close attention to the end of the video were Social Media and ideas are discussed -
Wednesday, 5 October 2011
Social Media's Influence on Children
Video Reference:
Blankenship, M. (2011). How Social Media Can and Should Impact Higher Education. The Education Digest, 76(7), 39. Retrieved September 20, 2011, from the ERIC database. Podcast: Click Below!
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