Social media knowledge activities: Opportunities for learning across formal and informal settings
1. Social Media
Knowledge
Activities:
Opportunities for
Learning Across Formal
and Informal Settings
Vanessa Dennen
Professor, Instructional Systems & Learning Technologies
Florida State University
Editor-in-chief, The Internet and Higher Education
vdennen@fsu.edu / @vdennen / vanessadennen.com
Keynote at ICOIE 2018
Hong Kong
5. Social Media + Learning =
š A way of motivating students?
š Something to do because everyone else is?
š An alternate to the learning management system?
š A textbook enhancement?
š A meaningful way to engage students in critical thinking skills?
6. My research suggests
students:
š are concerned with privacy and context collapse
š use social media informally for learning support and personal
learning needs
š are uncertain of how social media would be used in the
classroom
š would benefit from guidance at bridging points
š want access to free online (and multimedia)
learning materials
11. Most Cited?
1. Dabbagh, N., & Kitsantas, A. (2012). Personal Learning
Environments, social media, and self-regulated learning: A
natural formula for connecting formal and informal
learning. The Internet and higher education, 15(1), 3-8.
2. Junco, R., Heiberger, G., & Loken, E. (2011). The effect of
Twitter on college student engagement and grades. Journal
of Computer Assisted Learning, 27(2), 119-132.
3. Junco, R. (2012). The relationship between frequency of
Facebook use, participation in Facebook activities, and
student engagement. Computers & Education, 58(1), 162-
171.
12. What do we need to know?
An editor’s perspective
š Less: unfocused case studies and
adoption surveys
š More: examples of pedagogical
innovation, details for replication,
measures of learning, meaningful
measures of interaction and
outcomes, longitudinal
consideration of skills
(information literacy, lifelong
learning)
13. What is happening in
practice?
š Using social media as a:
š Broadcast medium
š Unmotivated add-on
š Replacement for the LMS
š Backchannel
š Independent and informal learning tool
š Platform for instructor-facilitated learning activities
14. Social media offers access.
Humans:
A diverse
array of
people and
perspectives
Information:
An unstable
but useful
database
Tools:
Different
ways to
interact with
humans and
information
24. Pedagogical Foundations
š Cognitive information processing
š Attention and memory management
š Schema development
š Social constructivism
š Communities of practice
š Learning communities
š Cognitive apprenticeship
š Connectivism
25. Cognitive Apprenticeship
and the Social Media
Learning Experience
Modeling
Coaching
Scaffolding
Articulation
Reflection
Exploration
27. The tools … are just tools
(a non-exhaustive collection)
28. In sum …
Learning is about doing something with knowledge.
These are knowledge skills that EVERYONE needs.
Knowledge
Collect
•From network
•From
resources
Curate
•From network
•From
collection
Share
•With network
Broker
•Between
networks
Negotiate
•With network
Create
•With network
29. Quicktakes: Activities you
can do
š Class knowledge base (text, visual)
š Plus related debate and discussion!
š Class study guide
š Class e-zines
š Ask an expert
š Detective agency (find a case, solve a case)
š Public education / outreach
š Develop professional learning networks
30. Flipgrid
flipgrid.com
USES
š Introductions
š Video reports + feedback
š Hot-topic discussions
š Group formation
š Brainstorming
Video-based discussion tool
Can be closed to class
members or open to
anyone with the URL
Includes stickers and emoji
feedback
Auto captioning
Image from flipgrid.com
31. Diigo
diigo.com
USES
š Share news and discuss current events
š Build group knowledge base or course
legacy/archive
š (Co)curate collections
š Collaborative lit review or reading
notesSocial bookmarking and
annotation tool
Educator accounts
available
Can be used individually or
in groups
Shared items can be
tagged, annotated, liked,
and discussed
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