Session 10
The Learning Culture: Using Social Media with the Flipped Model
Conceptual Understanding: Incorporating social media in classroom learning can encourage collaboration and increase inquiry into concepts.
Breaking the ice video- The One Ronnie: My Blackberry is not working
Breaking the ice video- The One Ronnie: My Blackberry is not working
Social Media and Connected Learning
Introduction
We know a large portion of our students are already using social media to keep up with their friends and interests outside of the classroom. In this session, we'll explore using social media with your classroom, and how it might be used in combination with your flip podcasts.
What do they offer?
A virtual community to exchange ideas outside of classroom time. Questions can be asked, discussions started, resources shared among your class. Students will have a chance to communicate and collaborate outside of the relatively short classroom time you may have with them.
Broaden the learning community. Sharing ideas and resources amongst a class of 25 is great, but with social media other students, experts, and educators around the world can support one another in their learning. Your students may gain exposure to different opinions, world views, and expertise that they wouldn't otherwise have access to.
Skype call/Hangout with Rory Newcomb
Resources shared by Rory
Quickly share information. You can use social media to share links to your podcasts, give class announcements, etc.
Combining podcasts with social media
A number of teachers use social media to post the links to their podcasts. This then gives the class an opportunity to start a discussion, or ask questions about the video. It also becomes an efficient way for students to browse through previous videos and the accompanying discussions to review older content.
Platforms:
Facebook
A common hesitancy of educators using Facebook in the classroom is the issue of privacy. As a teacher, we may not want students to have access to our personal life, and we most likely don't want to be included in their online social circle either. However, educators may create a Facebook 'page' that protects each party's privacy. Members don't need to 'friend' one another to participate and make comments/posts on the Facebook page.
Here's a resource you may find helpful in setting up your page
Twitter
20 Second Twitter Stories
Many educators applaud Twitter for its ease of use, succinct communication, and large potential audience. In the flipped classroom, you might use a specific hashtag to post links to your videos, and have students reply to the videos with the same hashtag to have a stream of communication around the content.
And personally, you can become part of a community that is constantly posting tips, resources, and asking questions around Flipped Teaching.
This article has 10 Hashtags that should get you started
Here are 50 more ideas for how to start using Twitter with your students:
Introduction
We know a large portion of our students are already using social media to keep up with their friends and interests outside of the classroom. In this session, we'll explore using social media with your classroom, and how it might be used in combination with your flip podcasts.
What do they offer?
A virtual community to exchange ideas outside of classroom time. Questions can be asked, discussions started, resources shared among your class. Students will have a chance to communicate and collaborate outside of the relatively short classroom time you may have with them.
Broaden the learning community. Sharing ideas and resources amongst a class of 25 is great, but with social media other students, experts, and educators around the world can support one another in their learning. Your students may gain exposure to different opinions, world views, and expertise that they wouldn't otherwise have access to.
Skype call/Hangout with Rory Newcomb
Resources shared by Rory
- TedEd
- Biororz - social media posts
- Gamification ISTE presentation
- Contact Rory: Twitter: @roryaileen, Skype: roryaileen, email: [email protected]
Quickly share information. You can use social media to share links to your podcasts, give class announcements, etc.
Combining podcasts with social media
A number of teachers use social media to post the links to their podcasts. This then gives the class an opportunity to start a discussion, or ask questions about the video. It also becomes an efficient way for students to browse through previous videos and the accompanying discussions to review older content.
Platforms:
A common hesitancy of educators using Facebook in the classroom is the issue of privacy. As a teacher, we may not want students to have access to our personal life, and we most likely don't want to be included in their online social circle either. However, educators may create a Facebook 'page' that protects each party's privacy. Members don't need to 'friend' one another to participate and make comments/posts on the Facebook page.
Here's a resource you may find helpful in setting up your page
20 Second Twitter Stories
Many educators applaud Twitter for its ease of use, succinct communication, and large potential audience. In the flipped classroom, you might use a specific hashtag to post links to your videos, and have students reply to the videos with the same hashtag to have a stream of communication around the content.
And personally, you can become part of a community that is constantly posting tips, resources, and asking questions around Flipped Teaching.
This article has 10 Hashtags that should get you started
Here are 50 more ideas for how to start using Twitter with your students:
Wikispaces
Google Sites/Forms
Edmodo
Edmodo is a social platform specifically for schools. It has traditional Facebook features, along with the ability to exchange homework, plot assignments on a calendar, and administer quizzes and polls, and more. It is also a great tool to use with younger students to begin teaching responsible online behavior because you can limit the interaction of students to be just within the class roster.
An image curation and sharing tool
Activity 1
Create a Facebook page and post your podcast/video. You may want to create a ‘professional page’ separate from any personal one that you already use. Share with other participants and post a comment on their podcast/video.
Activity 2
Set up a twitter account. Use the #ibflippedlearning hashtag. Respond to these questions: Do you currently use social media with your students? If yes, what are some successful ways you've used it and what has been the biggest benefit?
If not, why not?
Activity 3
Create a Facebook page and post your podcast/video. You may want to create a ‘professional page’ separate from any personal one that you already use. Share with other participants and post a comment on their podcast/video.
Activity 2
Set up a twitter account. Use the #ibflippedlearning hashtag. Respond to these questions: Do you currently use social media with your students? If yes, what are some successful ways you've used it and what has been the biggest benefit?
If not, why not?
Activity 3
Shared knowledge is highly structured, is systematic in its nature and the product of more than one individual. (TOK guide)
Considering this statement from the TOK guide, revisit your school’s IT policy and academic honesty policies. How do they support social media? Identify a section you would like to change or add to your policy and post it on your Facebook page.