Social Media: Strategies & techniques toward more dynamic online classrooms

1. Social Media: Strategies & techniques toward more dynamic online classrooms Cynthia Lawson Assistant Professor School of Design Strategies, Parsons LawsonC@newschool.edu / @cynthialawson October 26, 2011

2. Why me? • Researcher and developer, Ludomática

3. Why me? • Researcher and developer, Ludomática • Graduate program in interactive media (ITP)

4. Why me? • Researcher and developer, Ludomática • Graduate program in interactive media (ITP) • Educational technologist, Columbia Center for New Media Teaching & Learning

5. Why me? • Researcher and developer, Ludomática • Graduate program in interactive media (ITP) • Educational technologist, Columbia Center for New Media Teaching & Learning • Media courses in Integrated Design program at Parsons

6. Why me? • Researcher and developer, Ludomática • Graduate program in interactive media (ITP) • Educational technologist, Columbia Center for New Media Teaching & Learning • Media courses in Integrated Design program at Parsons • Web 2.0 Teaching Tools

7. Why me? • Researcher and developer, Ludomática • Graduate program in interactive media (ITP) • Educational technologist, Columbia Center for New Media Teaching & Learning • Media courses in Integrated Design program at Parsons • Web 2.0 Teaching Tools • http://total.parsons.edu - Tools for Online Teaching and Learning

8. Online? Online teaching as well as face-to-face teaching with online tools

9. Dynamic classroom?

10. Dynamic classroom? Student participation

11. Dynamic classroom? Student participation • Content

12. Dynamic classroom? Student participation • Content • Horizontal hierarchy

13. Dynamic classroom? Student participation • Content • Horizontal hierarchy faculty not as lecturer, but as facilitator

14. Dynamic classroom? Student participation • Content • Horizontal hierarchy faculty not as lecturer, but as facilitator • Face-to-face participation

15. Dynamic classroom? Student participation • Content • Horizontal hierarchy faculty not as lecturer, but as facilitator • Face-to-face participation • The “stupid question” fear

16. Dynamic classroom? Student participation • Content • Horizontal hierarchy faculty not as lecturer, but as facilitator • Face-to-face participation • The “stupid question” fear • Not suitable for all personality types

17. Dynamic classroom? Student participation • Content • Horizontal hierarchy faculty not as lecturer, but as facilitator • Face-to-face participation • The “stupid question” fear • Not suitable for all personality types • Concerns with english as a second language

18. Faculty Students

19. teaching learning Faculty Students

20. teaching learning Faculty Students gap in the how

21. Millenials

22. Millenials “The Millennials: Conﬁdent. Connected. Open to Change.” Pew Research Center. February 24, 2010.

26. Millenials • Experiential learners “Millennial Behaviors and Higher Education Focus Group Results” Richard Sweeney, New Jersey Institute of Technology, 2009.

27. Millenials • Experiential learners “Millennials strongly prefer learning by doing. They almost never read the directions; love to learn by interacting.” “Millennial Behaviors and Higher Education Focus Group Results” Richard Sweeney, New Jersey Institute of Technology, 2009.

28. Millenials • Experiential learners “Millennials strongly prefer learning by doing. They almost never read the directions; love to learn by interacting.” • Digital natives “Millennial Behaviors and Higher Education Focus Group Results” Richard Sweeney, New Jersey Institute of Technology, 2009.

29. Millenials • Experiential learners “Millennials strongly prefer learning by doing. They almost never read the directions; love to learn by interacting.” • Digital natives “They clearly adapt faster to computer and internet services because they have always had them. While they still want and expect expert teachers in a face-to-face environment, they expect the speed, convenience, ﬂexibility and power provided by digital services and resources.” “Millennial Behaviors and Higher Education Focus Group Results” Richard Sweeney, New Jersey Institute of Technology, 2009.

30. Millenials • Experiential learners “Millennials strongly prefer learning by doing. They almost never read the directions; love to learn by interacting.” • Digital natives “They clearly adapt faster to computer and internet services because they have always had them. While they still want and expect expert teachers in a face-to-face environment, they expect the speed, convenience, ﬂexibility and power provided by digital services and resources.” “Millennial Behaviors and Higher Education Focus Group Results” Richard Sweeney, New Jersey Institute of Technology, 2009.

31. “social media” ?

32. “social media” ? just publishing publishing + interacting

33. “social media” ? just publishing publishing + interacting dynamic?

34. Web 2.0

35. Web 1.0 DoubleClick --> Ofoto --> Akamai --> mp3.com --> Britannica Online --> personal websites --> evite --> domain name speculation --> page views --> screen scraping --> publishing --> content management systems --> directories (taxonomy) --> stickiness --> from Tim O’Reilly’s “What is Web 2.0?” oreilly.com, 09/30/2005

36. Web 1.0 Web 2.0 DoubleClick --> Google AdSense Ofoto --> Flickr Akamai --> BitTorrent mp3.com --> Napster Britannica Online --> Wikipedia personal websites --> blogging evite --> upcoming.org and EVDB domain name --> search engine optimization speculation page views --> cost per click screen scraping --> web services publishing --> participation content management --> wikis systems directories (taxonomy) --> tagging ("folksonomy") stickiness --> syndication from Tim O’Reilly’s “What is Web 2.0?” oreilly.com, 09/30/2005

41. Platforms: Blackboard

42. Platforms: Blackboard “Using Blackboard is like riding an ox through midtown trafﬁc: possible, but really slow and so clearly not the vehicle of choice. Make that a counter-intuitive ox; it’s totally confusing, unsuited for design classes, my students won’t use it, and I can’t ﬁnd half the stuff I thought I had posted for this class. PLEASE DON’T MAKE US GO BACK THERE!” Student, Web 2.0 Teaching Tools, Fall 2011

45. Platforms: Blogs

46. Platforms: Blogs “a Web site that contains an online personal journal with reﬂections, comments, and often hyperlinks provided by the writer; also : the contents of such a site” Merriam Webster Dictionary

47. Platforms: Blogs http://web20su11.wordpress.com/

48. Platforms: Facebook by Brad McCarty, thenextweb.com

49. Platforms: Facebook • Keep in mind: • Privacy settings

50. Platforms: Facebook • Keep in mind: • Privacy settings • Closed group

51. Platforms: Facebook • Keep in mind: • Privacy settings • Closed group • Advantages: • Integrated into students’ daily routine

52. Platforms: Facebook • Keep in mind: • Privacy settings • Closed group • Advantages: • Integrated into students’ daily routine • Multimedia content

53. Platforms: Facebook http://www.facebook.com/groups/203437923023971/

54. Platforms: Twitter by Brad McCarty, thenextweb.com

55. Platforms: Twitter • “Micro-blogging”

56. twitter 1. reader

57. twitter 1. reader 2. retweeter

58. twitter 1. reader 2. retweeter 3. curator*

59. Platforms: Twitter • “Micro-blogging” • Noise: over 80 million tweets per day

60. Platforms: Twitter • Noise: over 80 million tweets per day • Lists: • http://twitter.com/#!/georgiayam/edtech • http://twitter.com/#!/StoneSculptorJN/photography

61. Platforms: Twitter • Noise: over 80 million tweets per day • Lists: • http://twitter.com/#!/georgiayam/edtech • http://twitter.com/#!/StoneSculptorJN/photography • Hashtags: • #policy, #occupy

62. Strategies: dynamic classrooms Why do you want students to participate?

63. Strategies: dynamic classrooms Why do you want students to participate? How

64. Strategies: dynamic classrooms Why do you want students to participate? How 1.On a discussion thread (BB/Blog/other), require that students both respond to the question AND comment on at least two other responses.

65. Strategies: dynamic classrooms Why do you want students to participate? How 1.On a discussion thread (BB/Blog/other), require that students both respond to the question AND comment on at least two other responses. Emphasize quality and critical thinking

66. Strategies: dynamic classrooms Why do you want students to participate? How 1.On a discussion thread (BB/Blog/other), require that students both respond to the question AND comment on at least two other responses. Emphasize quality and critical thinking 2.Rotate the “editor” role

67. Strategies: dynamic classrooms Why do you want students to participate? How 1.On a discussion thread (BB/Blog/other), require that students both respond to the question AND comment on at least two other responses. Emphasize quality and critical thinking 2.Rotate the “editor” role Students take turns posing questions and managing discussion

68. Strategies: dynamic classrooms http://www.cynthialawson.com/teaching/media/blog/?paged=3

69. Strategies: dynamic classrooms Why do you want students to participate? How 1.On a discussion thread (BB/Blog/other), require that students both respond to the question AND comment on at least two other responses. Emphasize quality and critical thinking 2.Rotate the “editor” role Students take turns posing questions and managing discussion

70. Strategies: dynamic classrooms 4.Digital ﬂuency of both faculty and students 5.Ask them! (Know your students) http://lespotter001.wordpress.com/2010/05/06/a-question-for-my-millennial- generation-students/

71. Resources • http://total.parsons.edu - coming soon • http://learningthroughdigitalmedia.net • course: Web 2.0 Teaching Tools • Conferences (attend or follow on Twitter! #mobilityshifts #edtech)

72. Thank you! Questions? Cynthia Lawson Assistant Professor School of Design Strategies, Parsons LawsonC@newschool.edu / @cynthialawson

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