social learning - the literacy that cannot be ignored
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My presentation from the Northern Grid Conference 2012. I put the case for the teaching of social media skills in schools from the earliest age as essential literacy skills. The consequences of not doing so are that students may enter the world ill-equipped to communicate effectively or worse, in danger of damaging their reputations or inadvertantly committing criminal acts.TRANSCRIPT
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Social LearningThe Literacy that cannot be ignored
Northern Grid Conference 2012#ngconf
Dughall McCormick@dughall
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“Social media includes web-based and mobile based technologies which are used to turn communication into interactive dialogue among organizations, communities, and individuals.”
Wikipedia
“Chris Cairns was awarded
£90,000 after he successfully sued
Lalit Modi, fo
rmer chairman of the
Indian Premier League. Modi had
posted a 24-word message on
Twitter in January, 2010, accusing
Cairns of a past record of fixing.”
“Also last month student
Liam Stacey was jailed for 56
days after posting racially
offensive comments about
footballer Fabrice Muamba.”
“This is an area where I would suggest education, both of what not to do and of how easy it is to detect and prosecute these offences, might
prevent the criminalisation of otherwise decent people…”
Nick Hawkins CPS
Year 3 Year 4What’s in an
avatar?Year 5
Year 6
Classes that tweet
“The Year 1 Twitter-feed is a good example of the how the school is not only helping pupils write for a specific audience, but also keeping parents and carers informed. “
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Dughall McCormick@dughall