Pinterest can be used to enhance teaching and learning in several ways: 1) Teachers and students can create boards to collect and organize resources on various topics, sharing them to increase engagement and collaboration. 2) Students take more ownership over their learning by developing their own boards based on their interests and passions. 3) Following experts, organizations, and each other exposes students to real-world connections and new perspectives beyond textbooks.

1. How you can use Pinterest to enhance
teaching and learning?

2. Who loved swap cards?

3. My mother used to collect these

4. People sometimes collect the
strangest things (socks).
Photo source:
http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/taboo/galleries/weird-collections/at/surrounded-by-socks-57811/

5. Pinterest is a great way to collect things
online. Yes, it's addictive

7. Many people think Pinterest is about this

8. or this

9. But it can also
look like this.
Look deeper.

10. What is Pinterest?
Pinterest is cloud-
based.
If you get an
account, log in on
any device
anywhere.

11. What is Pinterest?
Pinterest is a
bookmarking site.
You can search
for, collect and
organise
images/websites/
videos.

12. It's a social
network
(Unlike Google) You follow
people.
● Find experts in the
field
● Find organisations,
educators, curators,
scientists...

13. ● Look at who these people follow and piggy-
back them also.
● If you find the right people, you can ‘help
yourself’ to their collections.

14. Source: http://www.edudemic.com/guides/the-teachers-guide-to-pinterest/

15. Source: http://www.edudemic.
com/guides/the-teachers-guide-to-
pinterest/

16. Source: http://www.
edudemic.
com/guides/the-
teachers-guide-to-
pinterest/

17. Students can use it to find, save and organise
content.
eg. Art students can
● collect visual ideas, art info and tutorials.
● They follow their teacher and peers.
● They make choices (individualisation).
● They take responsibility for their learning.
What can you imagine your students doing with
Pinterest?

18. Some Melbourne High School Art
students’ collections

23. Teachers can use it to find experts to follow and
pin from.
These are only some of the people/organisations we found.

24. Tim Day
https://www.pinterest.com/timdayhuff/

29. Teachers can use it for teaching material and to
generate ideas.
They can share and collaborate with faculty, etc.

30. Mihaela’s Pinterest collection
https://www.pinterest.com/mbrysha/

31. Teachers can use it to create specific
collections.

32. Teachers can use it as curriculum
● collect resources for teaching and learning

33. More ideas for using Pinterest

34. Pin images/information for a
subject
eg. Art History

35. Pin images/info for a
subject within a subject
eg. Urban Art

36. Pin photos for a project
- eg our year 9
Scavenger Hunt
Get students to pin and
share their photos with
the class/teacher.

37. Pin images for a theme - manhood. Use as
writing/discussion prompts.

38. Pin images for a concept - connections

39. Recommended reading list eg Science Fiction
books

40. Collect images for a presentation eg image for
student blogging voice.

41. Collect videos eg. German videos and podcasts.

42. Collect online resources for teaching eg. Issues articles

43. Collaborate on a collection eg French language

44. Find a great board and follow the person -
Victoria Outerbridge

45. Then check out who they're following

46. Art and Interior Design Studio

47. Rijksmuseum on Pinterest (National Museum of the
Netherlands)

48. Metropolitan Museum of Art on Pinterest

49. Australian history on Pinterest

50. Expert: Art director and graphic designer

51. Polyhedra/modular origami

52. Brian Ganter - Academic (courses on Pinterest)

53. Prof Jess - Assistant Professor of Sociology

54. The Public Domain Review

55. For English teachers - politically incorrect adverts

56. Creative/conceptual collections

57. How does this enhance student
learning?
● Increase student engagement because students own their own
collections (boards) and take charge of their learning
● Passive to active - students do not rely on teacher to provide
learning resources
● Opportunities for differentiation and passion-driven learning
● Sharing amongst peers increases community (social learning)
● Collaborative practices increased
● Connection to real-world, not textbook but people (experts)

58. Higher order thinking
● Development of higher order thinking through
evaluation of quality, relevant resources,
selection and organisation
● Creation of conceptual collections

59. Digital literacies
● using the search function to find pins, pinners,
boards
● locating experts (evaluating people as
authoritative/expert)
● curating online

60. Differentiated teaching
● When you look at student boards, the quality of
their choices reveals their thinking processes,
ability to research and understanding
of topic/theme/ category.
● Quick way of checking students’ understanding
of the topic

61. What is your focus?
Find and share what
you see.