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In 2011, social media is the new frontier. Adolescents are the early frontierspersons because they discovered and embraced social media firs
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The cognitive gymnastics involved in co-creating and interpreting with and within social media spaces are impressive. Yet, engagement is often the prime justification for the integration of social media into curriculum. A Google Scholar keyword search of "student engagement" and "social media" returned 423 articles.
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we need to articulate the social and cognitive adroitness that kids demonstrate when using these tools and the relevance of these skills for succeeding in the post-industrial professional age.
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TV puts power and influence in the hands of yacht-owning media magnets, like Rupert Murdock (worth $6.3 billion and ranked by Forbes in 2010 as the 13th most powerful person in the world), who buys up studios and broadcasting stations. Twitter and Youtube empower anyone with access to a computer, phone, or library to publish media
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Television celebrates authority. Twitter dismantles authority, as witnessed by its use in Tunisia. Television celebrates the expert. Twitter fosters dialogue among amateurs. Professor Zynep Tufekci, in
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shelbydepewTodd Finley defines social media as the new frontier, and adolescents are the early frontierspersons. He includes ten tips for adding social media tools into the classroom.
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Adolescents are the early frontierspersons because they discovered and embraced social media first
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forbidding the use of social media sites in 52% of our nation's classrooms
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suppressing a learning revolution
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characterized by several truths
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facility with social media tools is critical to learning and working in the 21st century
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75% of online adolescents are already social networking outside of school
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many students hack through Internet filters during class
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exploration of social media sites is part of the adolescent identity
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Cynthia StogdillSiphoning the Fumes of Teen Culture: How to Co-opt Students' Favorite Social Media Tools http://t.co/eHQAObS
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Joquetta JohnsonSiphoning the Fumes of Teen Culture: How to Co-opt Students’ Favorite Social Media Tools http://t.co/eHQAObS
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John SengiaHow To Co-Opt Students' Favorite Social Media Tools http://ht.ly/4wGEj #edtech #teaching
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Marty RochlinIf you can't beat 'em, join 'em.
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facility with social media tools is critical to learning and working in the 21st century
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75% of online adolescents are already social networking outside of school
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many students hack through Internet filters during class
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xploration of social media sites is part of the adolescent identity.
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Not authorizing the use of these new tools will lead students to question teacher’s relevance in helping teens negotiate the 21st century.
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Social media refers to the online tools that promote easy transmission of ideas and conversations.
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social media, by definition, involves co-creation:
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Engagement should not be the primary rationale for classroom application of social media.
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Television celebrates authority. Twitter dismantles authority, as witnessed by its use in Tunisia. Television celebrates the expert. Twitter fosters dialogue among amateurs
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describes these explorations as sacred journeys where teens find themselves
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Don’t require students to write "correctly" in discussion forums. These spaces should encourage teens to advance tentative theories and experiment with different perspectives. You can always require students to write a traditional summary of their ideas later.
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15 Apr 11
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Patti Porto"Siphoning the Fumes of Teen Culture: How to Co-opt Students’ Favorite Social Media Tools"
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Fred KochBy forbidding the use of social media sites in 52% of our nation’s classrooms, schools are suppressing a learning revolution that is characterized by several truths: 1) facility with social media tools is critical to learning and working in the 21st centu
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13 Apr 11
Catherine JohnsonBlog post from Edutopia that critques educational use of social media tools with teens. Shares an interesting point of view that is worth exploring.
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Engagement should not be the primary rationale for classroom application of social media.
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diminishes its power
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articulate the social and cognitive adroitness that kids demonstrate when using these tools
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Malcolm Gladwell argues that the potential is overstated,
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by affording self-expression and cooperation, are perfectly aligned with what American educational philosophers imagined for our schools: a democratized and democratizing space.
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the inherent chaos of new media contrasts with the "opacity of modern production systems in which everything is delivered to the consumer shrink-wrapped, "cleansed" of hints of its origin and the process by which it was produced…"
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avoid "teaching" new media tools with old media practices in their desire to engage students and teach 21st century skills.
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ultimately, that students’ relationship with certain types of social media can be hyper-personal—paradoxically sensitive and impregnable
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He uses an online platform popular among teachers in the know, one I’ve used with my students. Without actually saying this, this online space suggests itself as a password protected (safe) alternative to Facebook.
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Me: "What do you think about [the classroom social media platform]?"
Tanya: (Passionately) "I think it’s tacky!" -
"It’s slow and clunky. The design is bad. To talk to your friend, you can’t just go to their page and shoot them a message. The search box is worthless; I couldn’t find my friend, Tim, even when I know he’s in there. Every time you want to post to a particular class—every time—you have to select that class, even when you’re continuing a conversation. Ghhhhhhh. It’s tacky."
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the different (inferior) social media space vacuumed the fun out of online social interchange and used less sophisticated tools (slower)
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assign students to describe famous authors using a Facebook template that is Xeroxed and distributed for the students to complete by hand.
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appears to be a cl
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disregards literacies that are fundamental to Facebook, where
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public and private revelations place the individual’s social status among multiple communities in constant jeopardy.
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impossible to duplicate with a paper graphic organizer.
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respect that teens (not all, of course) crave recognition of their social media autonomy
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challenge
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wait for students to signal that commentary on their social media processes and products is welcome
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encourage best-in-class technologies, when permitted. Lastly, using social
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Ten Guidelines
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When social media supplements and transforms curriculum, students should experience this like play.
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play as a “modality” of learning
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Danah Boyd observes, questions, and celebrates teen identity-building practices and literacies.
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Clearly separate the spaces where conversational and formal writing occur.
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Don’t require students to write "correctly" in discussion forums
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trust the community.
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8. Great online discussions thrive
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Introducing too many different social media channels in a semester muddies the role
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withdrawal
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Check out Quora, my favorite social networking platform.
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Dan Brooks 10 tips for using social media in the classroomTeachers should use social media in classroom lessons, and banning such tools will stifle learning and lead students to question teachers' relevance, university English professor Todd Finley writes in this blog post. Finley provides 10 guidelines for incorporating social media tools in the classroom. He offers several resources and suggests that teachers: create social media rules that are directive, but unrestricted; draw a distinction between academic and informal writing; and promote constructive online discussions. Edutopia.org/Todd Finley's blog
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Ros CockerA good article that highlights some realities of working with teens online
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Linda PiscioneTips for educators for using social media to enhance instruction -- includes a link to a video about the Twitter study.
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cslo coldSiphoning the Fumes of Teen Culture: How to Co-opt Students’ Favorite Social Media Tools | Edutopia
Teachers should use social media in classroom lessons, and banning such tools will stifle learning and lead students to question teachers' relevance, university English professor Todd Finley writes in this blog post. Finley provides 10 guidelines for incorporating social media tools in the classroom. He offers several resources and suggests that teachers: create social media rules that are directive, but unrestricted; draw a distinction between academic and informal writing; and promote constructive online discussions. -
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By forbidding the use of social media sites in 52% of our nation’s classrooms, schools are suppressing a learning revolution that is characterized by several truths: 1) facility with social media tools is critical to learning and working in the 21st century; 2) 75% of online adolescents are already social networking outside of school; 3) many students hack through Internet filters during class; and 4) exploration of social media sites is part of the adolescent identity.
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Workshop reports that, on average, kids can actually stuff eight hours of media exposure into five hours of non-school time by media multitasking—phone texting while participating in seven separate Facebook chats and posting to Tumblr.
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Dr. Howard Rheingold, on his final exam, asked his Stanford students to demonstrate their understanding of the literacies that accompany new media by creating, rather than writing, an essay. B
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Twitter and Youtube empower anyone with access to a computer, phone, or library to publish media. Television celebrates authority. Twitter dismantles authority, as witnessed by its use in Tunisia. Television celebrates the expert. Twitter fosters dialogue among amateurs.
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"It’s slow and clunky. The design is bad. To talk to your friend, you can’t just go to their page and shoot them a message. The search box is worthless; I couldn’t find my friend, Tim, even when I know he’s in there. Every time you want to post to a particular class—every time—you have to select that class,
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When social media supplements and transforms curriculum, students should experience this like play.
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Don’t require students to write "correctly" in discussion forums. These spaces should encourage teens to advance tentative theories and experiment with different perspectives. You
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Great online discussions thrive when students and instructors trust the community.
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Roland GesthuizenI offer ten guidelines for teachers seeking to positively integrate social media into their high school classroom. If you want some basic tips, skip to that section. Alternatively, meander through the following vignettes where we will peripatetically explore how social media meshes with teen culture, complicates identity, and subverts authority.
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In 2011, social media is the new frontier. Adolescents are the early frontierspersons because they discovered and embraced social media first.
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Instead of talking about how much teens love their Facebook (and rolling our eyes), we need to articulate the social and cognitive adroitness that kids demonstrate when using these tools and the relevance of these skills for succeeding in the post-industrial professional age.
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these technologies give classrooms a real shot at social justice. The trick is for instructors to avoid "teaching" new media tools with old media practices in their desire to engage students and teach 21st century skills.
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Bonnie BirdsallGreat advice for using social media in classes: http://tinyurl.com/3up66vt @edutopia
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Emily Vickery"Ten Guidelines for Integrating Social Media Tools and Spaces into the Classroom:"
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Derek McCoy10 tips for using #socialmedia in the classroom http://bit.ly/iazui5 #edtech
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By forbidding the use of social media sites in 52% of our nation’s classrooms, schools are suppressing a learning revolution that is characterized by several truths: 1) facility with social media tools is critical to learning and working in the 21st century; 2) 75% of online adolescents are already social networking outside of school; 3) many students hack through Internet filters during class; and 4) exploration of social media sites is part of the adolescent identity. Teachers might not value, use, or understand social media tools, but they need to. Not authorizing the use of these new tools will lead students to question teacher’s relevance in helping teens negotiate the 21st century.
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Kevin McGeeSiphoning the Fumes of Teen Culture: How to Co-opt Students' Favorite Social Media Tools http://v.zite.com/g9Deqg #lis460
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Emily DittmarRT @NMHS_Principal: 10 tips for using #socialmedia in the classroom http://bit.ly/iazui5 #edtech
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Anne ShilloloAvoid "teaching" new media tools with old media practices: fascinating insights to social media in schools http://t.co/KDRpcDv
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Jessica AllenWhy social media is important. Some great statistics to support its use in classrooms.
Cognitive Gymnastics! Love that!=> How to Co-opt Students’ Favorite Social Media Tools | Edutopia http://t.co/7xd1bHc #edtech #edchat #ibpypedchat edtech via:packrati.us ibpyp socialmedia socialnetworking education technology culture
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Suzie NesticoGreat post on using social networking in the classroom from Edutopia: http://t.co/8rSRYdI #edchat #isedchat #edtech
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John TurnerTeachers should use social media in classroom lessons, and banning such tools will stifle learning and lead students to question teachers' relevance, university English professor Todd Finley writes in this blog post. Finley provides 10 guidelines for incorporating social media tools in the classroom. He offers several resources and suggests that teachers: create social media rules that are directive, but unrestricted; draw a distinction between academic and informal writing; and promote constructive online discussions.
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Steve RansomTen Guidelines for Integrating Social Media Tools and Spaces into the Classroom:
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Joe Showker"By forbidding the use of social media sites in 52% of our nation’s classrooms, schools are suppressing a learning revolution that is characterized by students [already using the services to learn with]"
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1) facility with social media tools is critical to learning and working in the 21st century; 2) 75% of online adolescents are already social networking outside of school; 3) many students hack through Internet filters during class; and 4) exploration of social media sites is part of the adolescent identity.
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Engagement should not be the primary rationale for classroom application of social media.
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we need to articulate the social and cognitive adroitness that kids demonstrate when using these tools and the relevance of these skills for succeeding in the post-industrial professional age.
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Television celebrates authority. Twitter dismantles authority
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Television celebrates the expert. Twitter fosters dialogue among amateurs
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The trick is for instructors to avoid "teaching" new media tools with old media practices in their desire to engage students and teach 21st century skills.
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A middle-aged man who wears Croc sandals had no business debating efficiency and new media aesthetics with a teenager,
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Don’t Fool Kids with Inferior Social Media Tools
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Don’t Assign Faux Facebook Assignments
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When social media supplements and transforms curriculum, students should experience this like play
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Social media rules should be directive, but not restrictive.
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Many students are online novices. They’ll need to be partnered with digital natives who know how, why, and when to use different social media tools.
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Clearly separate the spaces where conversational and formal writing occur.
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Don’t require students to write "correctly" in discussion forums.
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Great online discussions thrive when students and instructors trust the community.
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Introducing too many different social media channels in a semester muddies the role obligations for members of each ecosystem, resulting in withdrawal.
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