forum on the use of social media in the university classroom

SOCIAL MEDIA DISCUSSION March 21st 2011, Ryerson

DISCUSSION: USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA (20 MN)

(1 answer per post-it note)

1. What discipline do you come from?

2. Do you use Social Media in your classroom? (Why or why not?)

3. Do your students use social media? (What for?)

4. Does your profession use social media? (If yes, what for?)

SOME STATS…. ABOUT SOCIAL MEDIA

THE 21ST CENTURY WORKPLACE USES SOCIAL MEDIA

MIND SHIFT ?

•Jimmy Wales on Collaboration: Drastic different approach to ethics and values

•Different values require different Infrastructures

PARTICIPATION RELIES ON A DIFFERENT FORM OF INTELLIGENCE

Social Intelligence

The C Factor: Canergie Research

Collective Intelligence

Conversations/listening

Building communities of Interest and practices

EMERGING INFRASTRUCTURES

FROM THE BLOOM INFORMATION AS LEARNING AGE

TO THE AGE OF LEARNING THROUGH EXPERIENCE

TO SOCIALLY SITUATED PARTICIPATION

Source: http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/Bloom%27s+Digital+Taxonomy

DIGITAL CITIZEN

According to Howard Rheingold Network literacies education needs to addressed

Attention Collaboration Critical Consumption Network Awareness Participation

DIGITAL WORKFORCE

Source: http://www.p21.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=254&Itemid=119

According to corporate culture, 21st Century, students’ learning should include:1. Core Subjects and 21st Century Themes2. Learning and Innovation Skills  •Creativity and Innovation •Critical Thinking and Problem Solving •Communication and Collaboration

3. Information, Media and Technology Skills •Information Literacy•Media Literacy •ICT Literacy

4. Life and Career Skills 

DISCUSSION: SOCIAL LEARNING INPEDAGOGY AND CURRICULUM (15 MN)

Do you feel comfortable teaching these new skills? Why?

OFTEN MENTIONED BARRIER

How can I teaching things I don’t know or do not use?

Potential solution: social constructivist and constructionist learning scaffolding

CONSTRUCTIVIST SCAFFOLDING

CONSTRUCTIONISM FOCUSES ON TECHNOLOGICAL LEARNING

ITERATIVE LAYERS TO KNOWLEDGE SCAFFOLDING

Physical/informal connection to making (individual) Activities of interest

Learning norms (with peers or teacher) Family/information/social/making/professional norms i.e. lecture, home life i.e. youtube

Hacking norms (with peers) Experimenting with transforming norms to one’s

own purpose Making a project/testing new hypothesis

Reflecting upon hacking (with teacher) Mindfulness (reflect while making)

SOCIAL MEDIA IS A NORM FOR STUDENTS

"We all already have Facebook. It saves us signing up for another service that doesn't even operate as well. We all know how Facebook works too. Its a great platform to collaborate on as  Facebook, for many young people has become an extension of their social selves. Its also a fairly reliable service to get in contact with someone. For a lot of us, checking and surfing Facebook regularly has become second nature, so you'll probably hear back from whoever your getting in contact with."- Connor Crawford

"The new group feature for Facebook came in really handy for group assignments this year, the majority of us students already have a Facebook account, and it was really easy to get a group organized. One person set up the group and added all of our members to it and that was it. It worked really well for a way to contact all members of our group at once, picking out times to meet and where, or ask a simple question and have all group member's input. The group, once created has a separate wall, where only members can write and share on. It was also really helpful when we wanted to share content, you just uploaded a picture or a document and everyone in the group had access to it. This made it really easy to share everything collectively and set up our website. We have actually kept the group running and still use it in our class this semester, we've just added a few new members. This way of communicating was really effective, instantaneous and simple. "- Stephanie Redmond

CO-CONSTRUCTED KNOWLEDGE SCAFFOLDING: CREATING LEARNING NETWORKS

Formalize informal connection to makingCreate a bridge between teacher-student-

professional fields of interests Learning norms (with peers and teacher,

professionals) Inform each other through research projects

presentations Hacking norms (with peers)

Develop a new form together in ]/for the classroom

Reflecting upon hacking (with teacher) Mindfulness (reflect while making)

SCAFFOLDING IN PEDAGOGY AND CURRICULUM

Do you use any type of scaffolding in the design of your class and your program’s curriculum?

Can you adapt these methods to social media?

What activities can you think of to develop a learning network in your classroom that bridges your knowledge and communication methods with those of your students?

DISCUSSION: PEDAGOGY AND CURRICULUM (20 MN)

What scaffolding activities, if any, do you think can promote Digital Citizenry in your classrooms? What activities could you create to enhance these skills?Core Subjects and 21st Century Themes2. Learning and Innovation Skills  •Creativity and Innovation , Critical Thinking and Problem Solving , Communication and Collaboration

3. Information, Media and Technology Skills •Information Literacy, Media Literacy , ICT Literacy

4. Life and Career Skills

5. Network literacies education needs to addressedAttention, Collaboration, Critical Consumption, Network Awareness,

Participation 

EXPERIMENTING WITH LEARNING NETWORKS

Source: http://blip.tv/file/3385515/

EMERGING MOBILE LEARNING NETWORKS MODEL

Incorporates informal learning opportunities:• acknowledging that innovation exists outside of institutions;• accepting peer culture within fluid institutional boundaries;• facilitate new infrastructures for informal learning;•personal interest drives learning.

Education socializes us to:• mixed spheres of social/learning interactions;• the value of intrinsic interest and motivation; • the value of personal, practical knowledge;• alternative ways of knowing.

CURRICULUM SCAFFOLDING

Course one: introduction to the environment Course two: introduction to documentation Course three: Hack process (make it your

own) Course four: Critiques

SOME EXAMPLES

Researching social media: Team Work, team 14, team 11?

Blogs? Youtube? Online communities?