Can we harness the power of social media to provide students with a vehicle for exploring and creating original content? WA Mash (Worcester Academy Mashup) is an online magazine where the power of social media is captured to provide creative writing students with a platform for exploring ideas and fostering and contributing to the larger global conversation. By exploring the possibilities offered by the use of social media tools, we explore how one teacher is defining the New Humanities at the secondary school level. Built off the work of Richard E. Miller at Rutgers University, students blog in a timely fashion about a wide variety of cultural, political and economic issues. Most importantly, it is about creating original content and redefining the role of student and teacher. They compliment their work with audio, video, photos and micro-blogging by integrating social media tools like YouTube and Vimeo, Twitter and Flickr. Think Slate or Salon for high school. The conversation will explore the nature and role of the New Humanities in education. How do we define it? What does it look it? What role does it play? And how do we move forward with implementation?
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Harnessing the Power of Social Media with Students
1.
2. So how do we educate our students for success
in the Web 2.0 world?
3. Old School Creative Writing
• Genre based instruction
• Anthology of work as primary
text/resource
• Student work not published
• Blogging/Journaling
• Assessments were traditional,
rubric based
• Mostly fiction, poetry etc.
• Workshop style with peer edit,
peer review process
• In depth study of literary
elements and terms as vehicle
for creation
9. Can we harness the power of social media to provide
students with a vehicle for exploring and creating original
content?
10. What is the basis for thinking about the New Humanities?
11. A Personal Paradigm Shift
• Rutgers University Center for the New Humanities & work of Richard E. Miller
• “Possible for people to communicate instantly and globally through
technology. English is a discipline that excels at human expression and the
study of human culture related to expression.”
• “We (humanities teachers) should be the place that’s at the very cutting edge
of education for students in these areas.”
• “Multimedia composition; not only is it important for students to be able to
excel in the use of verbal and written language as a means for
communicating ideas, but they must also be able to excel in the use and
manipulation of visual images. That is what it NOW means to compos
12. Why should schools rethink they way they teach
traditional humanities subjects?
13. MIT TechTV New Media Literacies
http://techtv.mit.edu/collections/newmedialiteracies
14. MIT TechTV New Media Literacies
http://techtv.mit.edu/collections/newmedialiteracies
15. What is the purpose of school? EduCon 2.1
• Creativity, Collaboration and Courage
• Schools should be a place where students generate ideas rather than just
regurgitate them.
• Ability to try out new ideas and test creative ideas.
• Fostering new humanities rich environments where teachers can help
“capture and harness student energy in order to shape it.”
• Provide opportunities for students to convey concepts and original ideas
through thoughtful, technology rich collaboration opportunities.
• “Schools should be about communication.”
21. Our Process Was Organic
• Sir Ken Robinson “Are Schools
Killing Creativity?”
• KSU “Vision of Student Today”
• Modeled after Salon.com and
Slate.com, Huffington Post
• We did not stick to any specific
game plan or prescribed syllabus
• Did not use a traditional text book