1. SOCIAL MEDIA AS A
LEARNING TOOL
Using social media to connect
students to educators and experts
worldwide
Ann S. Michaelsen
Teacher and administrator Sandvika vgs
http://annmic.wordpress.com/
@annmic

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6. USING SOCIAL MEDIA TO CONNECT EDUCATORS,
STUDENTS AND EXPERTS WORLDWIDE
Participants will be shown how to use social media like
Skype, YouTube, blogs and Twitter to get in contact with students and
teachers from other parts of the world. Students communicate and learn
from peers in the outside world using social media and teachers introduce
new material to the students on personal blogs using authentic material like
videos from YouTube and TED. Curriculum goals are the basis for
learning, not textbooks, and students find how different topics can be used to
cover the curriculum goals. Questions and challenges are set by the students
with help from teachers. Students offer feedback to fellow students. The goal
is self-paced differentiated learning where every student can progress
individually and the teacher can keep track of this. We explore how it is
possible to use digital age learning in an authentic real-world
practice, modeling real-world problems.

7. MY SCHOOL – MY CLASS
1:1 school
Block scheduling – one subject/class all day from
8:30 – 13:15
Teaching without textbooks
Building a PLN with social media: Twitter,
Blogging, Skype, Facebook, YouTube,
Using the Internet during exams

8. BLOCK SCHEDULING - 1:1 - BLOG
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9. WILL SCHOOLS CHANGE
DRAMATICALLY IN THE FUTURE?

10. BLOCK SCHEDULING - 1:1 - BLOG

11. BLOCK SCHEDULING - 1:1 - BLOG
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14. LEARNING IN AN AUTHENTIC REAL-
WORLD PRACTICE, MODELING REAL-
WORLD PROBLEMS
Norway meets Lesotho
YouTube

15. HELPING TEACHERS AND STUDENTS
TO BE DIGITALLY INCLUDED
Social media a great way to connect!
2009 Microsoft’s Worldwide Innovative Education Forum in Brazil.
Moliehi Sekese won the Worldwide Innovative Teacher Awards, category
educators choice; Best Practice: Moliehi Sekese (Lesotho), “Indigenous
Plants”.
Moliehi did a keynote at our education conference this year
Projects where students in Western countries help raise money to buy
computers and set up wireless Internet in schools without technology
2012 a day’s work to help students at Mamoeketsi primary school 40.000
dollars. high school scholarships, material, exchange visits +
new school building.
Communication for students to learn and collaborate. Skype

16. GLOBAL CLASSROOM
Twitter

17. Why Twitter?
• Great way to connect – quick and in real-time
• Great way to find information
• Quickly updated
• Search and find almost everything. Something
happening search and find out what people are
talking about.
• Build a network
• Easy to use, what you put in is what you get out of
it.

18. USING TWITTER AND BLOGS
Twitter Resources, Apps, and Tools
Twitter is possibly one of the most powerful social
media tools available to educators. Get started today
with these resources. Advanced users might find
something here to enhance their Twitter experience .
http://pinterest.com/esheninger/twitter-resources-apps-and-tools/

19. TWITTER AS A LEARNING TOOL

20. TEN REASONS TEACHERS
SHOULD GIVE TWITTER A GO

21. TWITTER TO CONNECT WITH
EXPERTS
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23. RSS – FEEDS TO KEEP UPDATED
communicate
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Curriculum goals

25. Curriculum goals
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26. I defiantly agree that--while the organization of the story was a little
cluttered--is was quite a remarkable account of the experiences of the
grandfather in WWII. What a story! It seems great that people are
recording oral recounts of experiences in WWII such as these and that
agencies like the BBC publish it. One aspect that I thought was particularl
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pertinent was how the story referenced the celebration of Christmas; this
nearly overlaps with the point of year in which we read it. This certainly
provides a powerful insight into how terrible the living conditions were fo
the grandfather in that getting to eat cat food made it "the best Christmas
ever" comparatively. Lastly, one thing I thought was interesting was how
when he arrived at Auschwitz, the grandfather claimed he was a
silversmith to make it seems as though he had skills to provide for the
German. Coming full-circle, by the time that the Americans had arrived
the grandfather had developed the very useful skill of knowing five
languages, so cool!

28. PUBLISH TO AN AUDIENCE
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29. CONNECTING

30. KEEPING UP
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Questions
challenges

32. GOALS SET BY STUDENTS

33. AUTHENTIC MATERIAL LIKE VIDEOS
FROM YOUTUBE AND TED.

35. AUTHENTIC REAL-WORLD
PRACTICE

36. STUDENT INVOLVEMENT

37. USEFUL LINKS