M&L 2012 - Smile – social media in learning & education - by Janice Richardson
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Learning & Education
Janice Richardson
14 November 2012
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2. SMILE – Social Media in Learning & Education
What is SMILE?
In 2011, Facebook announced a
Digital Citizenship Research
Grant:
“a new effort to support world-class
research that improves understanding of
the challenges and opportunities
associated with how children are growing
up in a world of media and technology.”
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• Part 1: Online learning lab for 100 teachers
worldwide to investigate educational opportunities
social media offers.
• Part 2: Communities of practice for brainstorming,
sharing and mutual support between teachers
• Part 3: Dissemination of results through online
platforms, European and international conferences
and a publication scheduled for Dec 2012.
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6-week eLearning Lab content
• Unit 1: What is social media?
• Unit 2: Using social media in schools…
• Unit 3: Using social media for learning and
teaching…
• Unit 4: Using social media for professional
development
• Unit 5: Using social media responsibly
• Unit 6: Social media policy…
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Structure of eLearning Lab
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1. What is Social Media?
bridges isolation, breaks down school walls
can be a powerful didactical tool
creates links with other teachers, making work more
interesting & rewarding.”
allows teachers to dip in and out of what other schools
are doing
offers inspiration to improve teaching
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2. Using Social media in a whole-school approach
“…education is based upon relationships. Social media is
not just “technology”, it really bring our world together. With
proactive use of social media, the sky is the limit.”
“Steven Johnson says in his book ‘Where Good Ideas
Come From’ : Innovative environments are better at
allowing their inhabitants to explore...The trick to having
good ideas is not to sit around in glorious isolation and try
to think big thoughts. The trick is to get more parts on the
table. I hope that the school leaders out there will choose to
avail their students of modern resources, but first they need
to embrace them for themselves.”
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3. Using social media for learning and teaching
“Whatever tool is used, whatever method is used or whoever directs,
controls or leads the students; the most important thing to keep in mind
is how to encourage students in literacy. If we can teach them how to
take their own learning responsibility, then every tool or other new
social media is worth trying.”
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4. Social Media for professional development
Twitter has taught me to…
- make judgments about the good from the facile
- judge trends – to see what is concerning teachers & educators right now
Twitter is…
-engaging, needs organisational thought and time management!
-not as easy to integrate into class as I thought, but we are getting there!
-my Personal Learning Network – I look forward to filling an application
form and responding to the question “outline in-service courses attended,
with supporting documentary evidence” – … with my Twitter-stream!
-best explained by participation – tweeting a meeting is a great way to
demonstrate its power
-in its infancy in terms of possibilities – #edchatie recently examined
pooling teaching and learning resources – a tsunami of ideas and links
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Twitter is also…
- without boundaries – you can offer social capital to your followers and
share ideas from those you follow – whenever and wherever…and so on…
But at the end of the day Twitter is about people – the best that education
has to offer – those teachers and educators, formal and informal who
realise that they are always learners and that learning never ever stops –
just like my Twitter stream!”
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5. Responsible use of social media
SMILE participants consider that of all the resources that most useful for
educators, one resource is a MUST HAVE:
A PASSPORT TO THE INTERNET – an interactive literacy tutorial with a
teacher’s guide and handouts for students develop covering 5 key areas:
authenticating online information;
recognising online marketing ploys;
protecting their privacy;
managing online relationships;
dealing with cyberbullying.
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6. Five challenges to adoption
How to integrate Social Media across the curriculum to avoid it
being just project-based or an add on for interested teachers?
Professional development is essential - change is hard, and requires
both knowledge and opportunity.
A change in the examination system to drive in-depth change.
Teachers alone can’t lead the implementation of social media policies –
it has to be a national, even a European implementation.
Digital natives know how to use the devices but need to be taught the
rules of their use.
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Part 2 – Communities of Practice
Objectives
• Encourage collaborative learning and share best practice;
• Brainstorm and problem-solve together;
• Seek experience, map knowledge and identify issues or gaps.
Two main tasks
• Gather case studies, and choose one or two to discuss and improve;
• Develop a personal social media strategy
to be implemented during academic year.
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Another 5 challenges to achieving implementation
Teachers’ busy schedule!
Holidays and change of class in new school year
Finding how Social Media fits in a rigid class schedule
Non-supportive reactions of colleagues and hierarchy
How to drive change in schools?
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What next?
Participants will continue developing their own social
media strategy for implementation;
Communities of Practice will continue to support each
other as they implement their social strategy in schools;
Launch of a publication in December 2012 on trends
and best practices for integrating social media in the
classrooms.
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Further information
Janice Richardson
janice.richardson@eun.org
smile@eun.org
SMILE
http://leedu.eun.org/web/smile/home
smile@eun.org
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Notes de l'éditeur
Facebook’s mission is to make the world more open and connected. At the heart of this mission is the belief that an increasingly social world can have a profoundly positive impact on people’s lives – changing the way we share, discover, and learn. Facebook’s Digital Citizenship Research Grants is a new effort to support world-class research that improves understanding of the challenges and opportunities associated with how kids are growing up in a world of media and technology. As part of this initiative, Facebook committed to investing $200,000 to support research that highlights trends associated with Digital Citizenship, broadly (with an initial focus on bullying prevention). This research grant was open to academic and nonprofit institutions, with a deadline for submissions of September 2011. Facebook received nearly 100 grant applications from academics and non-profits from more than 10 countries. We are please to state that the European Schoolnet (EUN) P proposal was accepted as one of four successful projects, and is the only research grant to be awarded in Europe. http://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-safety/facebook-awards-digital-citizenship-research-grant-to-european-schoolnet/346406968713425 sqdsdS
Element 1: An online learning laboratory for 100 teachers from the 30 member states of EUN partnership (and beyond*) to investigate and embrace the educational opportunities social media offers. *We additionally have participants from Argentina and Brazil. sqdsdS
The online course – six units: Unit 1: What is social media? Unit 2: Using social media in schools - whole-school approach Including Social media quick start guides Unit 3: Using social media for learning and teaching - pedagogical principles Unit 4: Using social media for professional development Unit 5: Using social media responsibly Unit 6: Social media policy and the challenges of social media adoption in schools The sqdsdS
For each unit, participants are given an introductory video to view, along with a written commentary and additional sources of information. They also have a list of links to explore and reflect on, and examples of interesting practice taken from both the education sector and beyond At the end of each unit are a series of tasks to help participants deepen their understanding, and gain practical experience of many of the issues discussed. We intend for this to be a very interactive course and encourage all participants to engage in discussion and debate along the way! A discussion forum is used to post general comments and queries, and there are a series of themed forum discussions for each module. sqdsdS
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an interactive online tutorial; a Teacher’s Guide with instructions, background information, classroom activities and handouts. sqdsdS
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Research findings, including case studies on social media in learning and education, will be published regularly throughout the project, culminating in a final report in March 2013. sqdsdS
Research findings, including case studies on social media in learning and education, will be published regularly throughout the project, culminating in a final report in March 2013. sqdsdS
Research findings, including case studies on social media in learning and education, will be published regularly throughout the project, culminating in a final report in March 2013. sqdsdS