Social Media Sparks Policy Debate - The Diigo Meta page

• 23 Jul 09
  

  Wesley Fryer

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• 22 Jul 09
  

  Bill Montana

  The use of social media in education brings much reward and some risk. Allowing managed & modeled use at young ages teaches students appropriate use of social media. Social media opens the classroom, eliminating boundaries. Learning becomes collaborative and global.

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  • Social Media Sparks Policy Debate
  • The explosion of social media has sparked discussions about how teachers can use blogs, wikis, Twitter and other tools while keeping students safe online.
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  • • A general guideline that covers online best practices for teachers is the best option, he said. If the activity that teachers are doing is safe for the students and has a curriculum connection to justify it, they can do it.
    • “The only way you can teach students responsible Internet use is to demonstrate responsible Internet use,” Anderson said. “If it’s all blocked, they don’t ever learn anything.”
    • Social media has allowed Schrage to collaborate with other educators and share ideas. He’s also been able to inspire his kids to learn.
    • “It puts the learning in their hands.”
    • “You don’t have to learn with just the same 30 kids in your classroom anymore,” Anderson said. “You can learn with the entire school, the entire district, the entire country and the entire world.”
    • Building a personal learning network through social media taught Anderson more in six months than his whole graduate program taught him. He said that social networking will be the thing that changes education for the better.
• 20 Jul 09
  

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  • In New York, the administrators at Horseheads Central School District are open to trying new sites if they have educational value, but they’re cautious, said Jason Schrage, an eighth grade social studies teacher. He explores Web sites to make sure that they are safe and appropriate before he allows his students to access them.
    
    
    
    Social media has allowed Schrage to collaborate with other educators and share ideas. He’s also been able to inspire his kids to learn. They enjoyed developing 1,000 multiple choice questions in a Google spreadsheet and form as well as conducting and streaming video interviews of people who lived during World War II on Ustream.
    
    
    
    “It’s motivating for my students, and it empowers them,” Schrage said. “It puts the learning in their hands.”

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