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14 May 15
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08 Feb 15
Jessah PachecoThis article depicts the idea of academic integrity, specially pertaining to college students. Media allows for students to acquire immense amounts of information, yes. However, the issue of plagiarism arises, and media, according to the article makes it easy for students to claim someone else's work as their own.
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08 Dec 14
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One consistent finding of the research was that female faculty members are more likely to express concerns about privacy than their male counterparts. The survey revealed that two-thirds of female faculty members believe that privacy is an "important" or "very important" barrier to the use of social media, while less than three-fifths of male faculty felt the same way.
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For many institutions, social media policies are non-existent or "gray," so the risk of crossing lines is high, especially where privacy is concerned. However, survey results do show that faculty concerns around social media in general are decreasing over time. The largest decrease in concerns from 2011 to 2012 was for "Takes too much time to learn or use," which might be due to the pervasiveness of social sites today.
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For instructors who want to integrate Twitter into their teaching without jeopardizing their own or their students' privacy, there are ways to do it. One way is to create a single Twitter account for their class, and have the students manage the Twitter account. Students can tweet from this class account and play an active role in the social learning environment, but they can't tweet from their own, unique user profiles. In this way, students learn what content is appropriate or "tweet-worthy" and, at the semester's end, see what they have done, whom they have interacted with, and whether they have participated in one-way conversations or two-way dialogue.
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25 Nov 14
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- According to a recent study, 100 percent of colleges and universities surveyed use social media, but instructors use it far less for teaching than they do for personal or professional reasons.
- Of those who use social media for instruction, most use video in the classroom and many use blogs and wikis.
- Concerns about cheating and privacy top the list of barriers to adoption, though these concerns — like many of the others cited — are decreasing as time passes and social media becomes more prevalent.
Key Takeaways
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- Think before you pin. Don't post any pictures that you wouldn't feel comfortable showing to anyone — including your parents, kids, students, or co-workers.
- Don't add any comments that can be taken out of context. If you aren't sure, err on the side of caution.
Pinterest has rapidly become one of the most popular sites for social sharing for educators. comScore announced in February that Pinterest accumulated 10 million users since it launched, faster than any independent website it had ever tracked.8 Pinterest is a free, virtual bulletin board that lets users pin videos and images captured from around the web and arrange them into different categories. (See the board by Ariana Amorim for an example.) Pins are also shared and searchable, making it a great content-curation tool for instructors. Faculty can pin together images, links, lesson plans, podcasts, and videos into visually appealing boards. They can create resource boards for themselves, other instructors, or their own students, and use the boards for classroom assignments.
Although Pinterest is a fairly easy social sharing site to learn, it offers no privacy controls! Everything you pin is seen by everybody, not just followers. And, once pictures and comments go online, there's no taking them back. Given this, the best approach is two-fold:
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"Yes, they enable the sharing of resources. But they cannot fully replace face-to-face encounters, which are required for successful community building. Social media works best when face-to-face relationships have already been established."
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"I hesitate to use the word 'community' for online interaction, but it does offer another means for information exchange, which may be particularly useful to very busy students with difficult schedules."
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17 Nov 14
Kate SinglerThis article by Hester Tinti-Kane (2013) expresses the concerns higher education professors face when thinking about or trying to incorporate social media into the classroom. Though the survey results expressed in this article show that concerns are decreasing, it seems that there is still a long ways to go before social media is seamlessly integrated into the college classroom. The article does provide some great ways to use social media resources that I did not initially think of, so it also provided some great applications for social media in education, as well.
social media Higher Education survey educator concerns applications barriers privacy
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100 percent of the colleges and universities studied are using it.1
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using social media for marketing and communication
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higher-education professionals
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faculty
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teaching and learning process
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faculty concerns about social media
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how those concerns might be mitigated for some of the more common social network sites
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levels of social media adoption
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results show
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very aware of social media
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faculty
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for teaching purposes lag behind both personal and professional use
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social sites most often employed in teaching;
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blogs and wikis
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faculty are growing more sophisticated in their use of social media
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certain platforms
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others for professional
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personal use
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instructional purposes
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pattern might be linked to more experience on social sites
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use of video for classes
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almost universal
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faculty adoption
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TeacherTube.com
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EduTube.org
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YouTube
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students are now more interested
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significant levels of faculty concern around using these sites.
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use both social media and networking sites in teaching
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would do more with technology if I had more time to develop things
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more direction
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eight barriers
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Integrity
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submissions
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privacy
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accounts
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Separate
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Grading
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Inability to measure effectiveness
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Lack of integration
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Takes too much time
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Lack of support
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first two worried faculty the mos
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student submission integrity as the largest obstacle
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authenticity concern
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not related solely to teaching with social sites
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second largest barrier
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privacy concerns
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female faculty members are more likely to express concerns about privacy than their male counterparts
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privacy concerns by faculty
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warranted
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13 million users either didn't know about or hadn't cared to set their Facebook privacy settings
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Facebook and Google's privacy policies are harder to comprehend than the average bank credit card agreement
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social media policies are non-existent or "gray
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faculty concerns
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decreasing over time
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concerned about removing the "invisible" barrier between instructors and students
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what you don't know can hurt you
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FERPA
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strategies for bringing social media into the teaching and learning process while being mindful of integrity and privacy issues
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have the students manage the Twitter account
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create a single Twitter account for their class
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can't tweet from their own
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students learn what content is appropriate or "tweet-worthy"
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job postings requiring social media skills rose 87 percent
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there is something to be said for being concise where it counts
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one of the most popular sites for social sharing for educators
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a great content-curation tool for instructor
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create resource boards for themselves, other instructors, or their own students, and use the boards for classroom assignments
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offers no privacy controls
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Think before you pin
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on't add any comments that can be taken out of context
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Don't add any comments that can be taken out of context
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better privacy protections
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word clouds
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see if they've used certain words or phrases too often
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walled garden
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students use social content and toolsets within the environment of an LMS that incorporates social content and tools
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separate, unique profile specific to academic pursuits
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educators create a private group on a public social network
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faculty can ensure distinct boundaries between students' schoolwork and social lives on these sites.
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concerns are decreasing over time
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student/alumni community
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cannot fully replace face-to-face encounters
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not everybody participates
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The more that faculty members understand the effective uses of social media for teaching and learning, and the better the industry gets at learning how to balance "privacy" within the social sphere, the faster these new practices will proliferate across higher-education faculty and support student engagement and success.
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19 May 14
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03 Apr 14
Carol FawcettIs privacy concerns stopping you from using social media in your courses?
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31 Mar 14
Karel RoosThe author discusses the survey results on faculty's social media tools usage and their concerns about it (e.g., privacy, grading, lack of support, etc.) and discusses how these concerns can be mitigated.
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03 Mar 14
Florence Dujardin- According to a recent study, 100 percent of colleges and universities surveyed use social media, but instructors use it far less for teaching than they do for personal or professional reasons.
- Of those who use social media for instruction, most use video in the classroom and many use blogs and wikis.
- Concerns about cheating and privacy top the list of barriers to adoption, though these concerns - like many of the others cited - are decreasing as time passes and social media becomes more prevalent. -
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04 Dec 13
Karintha WheatonObstacles to using social media as an education tool
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05 Nov 13
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05 Oct 13
Lindsay HamiltonThis article discusses the concerns, and some solutions, to the use of social media in higher-education.
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11 Sep 13
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Many higher-education professionals are using social media for marketing and communication, but faculty are also adopting it in the teaching and learning process
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Research tells us that higher-education faculty continue to see significant barriers to widespread adoption of social media use for teaching, and yet these concerns are decreasing over time. Web 2.0 technologies have opened doors to highly interactive online communication and opportunities for user-generated content across a number of types of media.
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Social capabilities give educators the opportunity to develop interactive, engaging projects and assignments for students and to build learning communities. Social sites let faculty and students share and comment on information, and interact with their peers, instructors, and the learning materials themselves. The social site environment's engaging, interactive nature creates an opportunity for faculty in higher-education faculty to keep the interest of their students and help them build up a network of peer support.
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14 Jul 13
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11 Jul 13
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Thomas GongwerAccording to a recent study, 100 percent of colleges and universities surveyed use social media, but instructors use it far less for teaching than they do for personal or professional reasons.
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03 Jul 13
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15 Jun 13
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05 May 13
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02 May 13
Alana CallanOvercoming Hurdles to Using Social Media in Education http://t.co/yjnhJpVagd
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30 Apr 13
Ken PetersonSocial media has made its way into higher education. A 2010-2011 study of social media adoption by the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth analyzed the most recent trending of social media use among four-year accredited institutions in the U.S. and found that 100 percent of the colleges and universities studied are using it.1
Many higher-education professionals are using social media for marketing and communication, but faculty are also adopting it in the teaching and learning process. This is particularly true in online and blended instruction, as more educators see value in leveraging Web 2.0 technologies with their students.
Here, I'll discuss the findings from our recent survey at Pearson Learning Solutions, which highlighted faculty concerns about social media. I'll also discuss how those concerns might be mitigated for some of the more common social network sites. -
29 Apr 13
Paul BloemenSocial media has made its way into higher education. A 2010-2011 study of social media adoption by the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth analyzed the most recent trending of social media use among four-year accredited institutions in the U.S. and found that 100 percent of the colleges and universities studied are using it.1
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