Incorporate Digital Photography and Social Media into the Curriculum

Can Facebook, Instagram and digital photography work as tools in your

classroom? Technology is redefining the way we communicate, and social media

and digital photography have played a huge part in the shift. Come learn

strategies for engaging students by incorporating social media and digital

photography into the NAF curriculum.

Wednesday July 9, 2014 1:15pm - 2:30pm 

The NAF curriculum is designed to teach students the 21st century skills of creativity, communication, collaboration, critical thinking, media literacy, information literacy, and problem solving.

21st Century Skills Video

The contemporary Internet and the tools that make it up are an immense opportunity to reorganize every aspect of our own lives and this includes in your classroom.

“If you can create an encyclopedia with a million people you have never met but the quality is just as good as Britannic then what else could you create.” US Now (Documentary)http://vimeo.com/4489849

There is this opportunity of using social media tools with the NAF CURICULUM to do massive things, which is completely unexplored. With social media aspects included in your lesson plans then people all over the world can work together to collaborate with your students to take their project-based-learning assignments to the next level of excellence and exploration.

Advancements in technology and social media over the last decade demand new ways of integrating current and future technological innovations into public education.

Policymakers and school’s Administration are working to provide all students with high quality learning options; regardless of where they live or what school they attend.

We live in an age of personalization that includes often communicating through social media.

Yet when many of our students reach our classrooms, it's like the social media doesn’t exist.

Social Media certainly provides a platform for information to be exchanged; it just depends on how we use it. With its simplicity and widespread use, Social Networking surely has the potential to revolutionize education.

What is Social Media?

Social Media is Internet based applications that depend on creation and exchange of user-generated data.

Used by students, staff and faculty for personal entertainment and enrichment

Used by institutions for recruitment, development, publicity, admissions and teaching

Types of Social Media:

Blogging Micro-blogging Vlogging (video blogs) Social Networking Multimedia sharing Location Based Wiki & Bulletin Boards

Why Utilize of Social Media in Your Classroom?

Very fast Engages the students in learning Teaches the students Career Readiness Skills Is a viable employability skill in today’s job

market Will education the students on the effects of

their digital footprint and digital ethics Empowers the students and encourages critical

thinking on a daily basis To teach not only the ‘fun’ parts of social media,

but how to be responsible and empathetic towards differences

Encourages creativity

To reach an audience of 50 million users it took

Radio …. 38 years Television ….. 13 years Facebook …. 18 months

“Young people are much more used to living more of their lives in public. It used to be that living in public was only what the rich could afford — now anyone can. That’s extraordinarily empowering for young people.” ~ Bruce Schneier

The 1st step is as teachers we MUST NOT assume that students know how to use Social Media appropriately

1. Begin by teaching Digital Footprint & Ethicsdigital-footprint-2013.mp4 video from Common Sense Media

2. Have each student sign a Social Media Ethics Contract

3. Then have each student cleaning up all of their existing accounts and post the contract to each site informing their followers of their own personal social media policy

Resources to help you add this to your NAF curriculum include:

https://www.commonsensemedia.org

Watch this VIDEO created by Common Sense Media

(2 mins 14 sec)

Cyberbullying_Educator_Toolkit.mp4

Common Sense Media is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of kids and families by providing the trustworthy information, education, and independent voice they need to thrive in a world of media and technology.

They exist because our nation's children spend more time with media and digital activities than they do with their families or in school, which profoundly impacts their social, emotional, and physical development. As a non-partisan, not-for-profit

organization, they provide trustworthy information and tools, as well as an independent forum, so that families can have a choice and a voice about the media they consume.

Commonsensensemedia.org provides FREE Digital Literacy & Citizenship Classroom Curriculum for K-12. On their website you can download curricular toolkits with topical resources at your fingertips. In each toolkit, you'll find lesson plans, activities, videos, and parent outreach materials - your one-stop shop for Digital Footprint and Ethical Use of the Internet, Cyberbullying, and along with the basics of a Digital Life. 

The 2nd step is as teachers we MUST teach about copyright and legal impact of the Internet

Who owns the content? Who controls the content? Who can be liable?

The Terms of Use are very confusing.

Example: Terms of Use for Twitter

You retain your rights to any content you submit, post or display on or through the services. By submitting, posting or displaying content on or through the services, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, display and distribute such

content in any and all media or distribution methods (now known or later developed).

This license is you authorizing Twitter to make your Tweets available to the rest of the world and to let others do the same. But what’s yours is your s– you own your content. Same is true on Facebook with owns Instagram.

Copyright Infringement is enforceable in a Court of law and you and your students must be careful what you post but most will be covered under the Fair Use Law (for educational purposes).

You and your students are also Civil or Criminal Liability

Invasion of privacy Cyberbulling Intentional infliction of emotional distress

Section 230 of Communication Decency ACT

False statement of fact + publication + concerning another = defamation

As teachers we are very aware of FERPA so how does this impact your use of Social Media? Your school district and individual school should have a Social Media Guideline. TALK to your administration before implementing social media in your class.

If your school does not have clearly defined Social Media Guidelines then start by having the students

help you create or update Social Media Guidelines and present that to your Administration.

Start your Guidelines with this:

The 3 Rs of Social Media Engagement:

1.Representationa. Keep in mind your position makes you a

representative of the school in which you work. Do NOT disclose private or confidential information.

2.Responsibilitya. Make sure you adhere to your school’s

specific policies. Understand you are in education and have standards for personal conduct as an employee.

3.Respecta. Be respectful of those with whom you

interact online. Be polite and respectful.

Some of you might be asking yourself why should you or your students create these guidelines that might handcuff your ability to add social media effectively in your classroom? Always remember there is Standards of Professional Conduct for teachers and for public school students.

Also consider policies on student communication and communication using school-owned devices.

Include in your syllabus Best Practices for your students in class and for all online activities. These included things like:

Protecting your own privacy Being honest

Respecting copyright laws Disclaimers Thinking about consequences See the example download below

http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11220586/Social%20Media%20Best%20Practices%20For%20Teachers.pdf

http://www.edutopia.org/how-to-create-social-media-guidelines-school

I’m NOT a lawyer so please review all of your school district policies with your administration.

How can YOU best utilized Social Media in your classroom?

4. Begin by teaching Digital Footprint and Ethics5. Have each student’s legal guardian be a

witness to their student signing a Social Media Code of Conduct Contract

EXAMPLE: Harvard’s Code of Conduct

The mission of the __________ School is to strengthen democratic governance around the world by preparing people for public leadership and by helping to solve problems of public policy.

Achieving this mission requires an environment of trust and mutual respect, as well as commitment to truth, learning, and freedom of expression.

The __________ class has agreed upon the following principles to accomplish this mission in the classroom and online:

Respect for all members of our community and for the space we share.

Professionalism in all things, including the pursuit of intellectual and academic excellence.

The recognition of the value of different opinions in our "free marketplace of ideas."

Individual accountability for actions inconsistent with this Code of Conduct.

Members of this class have a personal responsibility to integrate this code into all aspects of their experience.

6. Ask each student to evaluate and clean up all of their existing accounts (if necessary) and post the contract to each site informing their followers of their own personal social media policy

7. Limit and establish only 1 -3 social media formats for the classroom to share content, media, research and discussions

8. Create a Social Media Management Team in each of your classesa. The Social Media Management Team will be

responsible for over seeing content & creating new content for each lesson or unit in the NAF curriculum

9. Create a Social Media Ethics Team to verify ethical policies are being followed by their themselves and fellow students

10. As a teacher you must use these platforms to make at least once daily to make announcements about upcoming projects, deadlines and activities

11. Have each class share content with other classes and experts online (including NAF classes all over the US)

12. Have groups of students create chat groups using hashtags (#SHS_Pd6_Design) or chat

features in the approved established media formats

13. Utilize Social Media to contact and engage the parents of your students

14. Use Social media to promote school functions, community events and classroom activities such as a classroom created blog

15. Point students toward additional resources available for them to explore the lessons and topics in more detail

16. Help the students and yourself stay organized by using hashtags (#) and calendar apps included in the social media format a. Possible have your students be in contact

with the Student Council and Activities Office to keep a school wide activities calendar

17. Resources to try if you want to incorporate Twitter into your assignmentsa. Twitterfall.comb. Twittermap.comc. Historical tweets.comd. Twtpoll.come. Have the students summarize each lesson

into a short Tweet of 140 character rule18. Assignment Ideas:a. If you have multiple sections of the same

class, then assign each student to a student in the other section class then have them follow each other to compare & contrast the different classes and projects

b. Have each group communicate with experts in the field of study and ask for a digital critique of their current poroject

c. Create a digital Scavenger Huntd. Have the students tweet or post current

news events that are relevant to your lesson or topic

e. Create a classroom newsletter using Paper.li

f. Long after school is over, a personal brand will live on for students. Using Social Media in the classroom to build a brand is a valuable exercise for students

g. Students can share resources and discuss whether it’s a good or bad source of information, encouraging comments

h. Ask students to unscramble anagrams, contribute synonyms, or give vocabulary definitions on the Social Media sites

i. Allow students to become more familiar with reading and writing skills by having a student post an inspirational quote tweet or post each day, preferably relating to course content

j. Using Twittermap, students can track what people are talking about where (Trendmapping)

k. Tweet a puzzle each week, giving a prize to the first student who shares the correct answer (or they can be in charge of a the social media management group for the week)

l. Students can curate their own Art Shows, using Twitter to share what they think belongs in a particular exhibit

m. Have students create a career list. Set up an interesting assignment requesting that students set up education lists following feeds relevant to their career goals and keep a daily journal on any trends that crop up along the way

n. Use (Wordpress or Wix) and other free blogging websites to sync with Twitter, posting notices of new entries. Educators who require students to keep their own blogs may want to follow updates using Twitter rather than having to click through bookmarks for each one

o. Any media or marketing class – including financial classes – can use the Twitter format to write microreviews of the different movies, books, music, companies and products (140 characters)

p. Financial teachers can use stock market games as a real-world project involving the fundamentals of investing. Students can use Social Media to follow the businesses, markets and analysts that help them make wise choices with their (fake) money

q. TweetStats allows users to input a specific account name and look at a bar graph of the microblog’s activity. Students can search for tweeps in their school or town and gather/evaluate data on how and when their neighbors use Twitter

19. The teacher’s duties include:a. Be online to help answer students questions

and give feedback after school hoursb. Encourage competition and allow for voting

and/or critiques onlinec. Contact students often to help verify that

there is group building and to help you identify students who are having difficulty

d. One of the most effective ways for educators to improve their teaching methods is through communicating with their teacher peers through social media sites therefore contact other NAF teachers all over the US.

e. Join Professional Learning Communities (PLC’s)

i. The hashtag #edchat and #edtech give you instant access to links, thoughts and tweets from educators from all over the world

ii. Using an app like Tweetdeck, or any desktop app with a self-updating feature, is the ideal way for the tweets to be displayed during class if Twitter is allowed on your school’s network

20. Explore the countless 3rd party apps which can be used alongside Twitter to enhance the learning experience. a. Teachers can poll students using PollDaddy,

or create easy to follow groups using Twibes. Using a url shortener like Bit.ly helps keep all of your shared links available on one page. And using a service like

Twitterfall will make it easy to keep up with real-time searches for a specific term

21. Post their progress and final Cumulating Course Projects while receiving and giving feedback to their co-students and teachers.

22. The key is having a teacher as a guide, helping students create a safe and positive digital footprint, while enabling an authentic, purposeful and immersive learning experience for the world to see

“I’m convinced that if schools want to improve their image with taxpayers, they must begin to use social media.  The benefits are just too great, and as more of the taxpaying community ties into social media through mobile devices, “traditional” public schools have to become non-traditional, and join the conversation.” ~ Joel Gagne, CEO of Allerton Hill Consulting.

ALL teachers must model the concept or skill to be learned, including social networking ethics.

Setting up your accounts before the school year starts.

Start with Twitter

When you’re signing-up on Twitter as an educational institution, choose a username that clearly identifies your department or program. For example – :Institution-name-English, Institution-name-Engineering, etc

Consider including your personal Twitter handle, so that your followers will know who does the tweeting for that account

Encourage students to share work socially Use a hashtag to facilitate guest speaker

discussions Require original expert sources Require students to keep a blog (free sites such

as wix.com or weebly.com)

Social Networks

Twitter

Facebook

Linkedin

YouTube

Vine

Vimeo

Instagram

Pinterest

Flickr

Tumblr

Google+

Wordpress

Wix

Weebly

Blogger

Schoology

Edmodo

Edublogs

Skype

Google Hangouts

iTunes U

Second Life

The #1 social network for kids under the age of 13 is Club Penguin

Resources:

Law

National Conference of State Legislatures

www.ncsl.org

www.socialmediatoday.com

http://www.nea.org

http://www.bestmastersineducation.com/social-media/

www.wassom.com

Wassom.com is a forum for discussion and commentary on the law of social media and other new and emerging forms of expression. - See more

at: http://www.wassom.com/social-media-and-student-discipline-in-public-schools.html#sthash.x2uuXnag.dpuf

www.mashable.com

www.edtechmagazine.com

www.edutopia.org

http://socialmediagovernance.com/policies/#axzz1t9QE04Ym

http://socialmedia.org/disclosure/

https://www.diigo.com/user/stevenanderson/socialmedia

http://www.edudemic.com

http://www.edudemic.com/guides/guide-to-twitter/

Videos to watch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&list=PLvzOwE5lWqhSE_3v46YFBxnfuZ2qHBAXH&v=iNdBHmZAOr4

300+ Mind Expanding Documentaries Websitehttp://themindunleashed.org/2014/03/300-mind-expanding-documentaries.html

The Story of Twitter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYgWbE9GaEg