An important aspect of social media that educators should look at is really what students like. For example, these days students don't necessarily use Facebook. They are on TikTok and private networks.
In this module I learned about activities for media and networking creation and integration to include in a course.
In this module, I have learned the possibility of using rubrics to evaluate student work.
In my courses, I will create my own rubric to help evaluate the different types of social media technology that are best suited to student learning in your course.
So many people are using social media it makes sense to be able to make a class page to open discussion. I also had the thought that it may save me more time as well for example if all my students know where to go to ask questions, I may be able to post one answer verse answering the same question 10 times individually. I also like the idea of giving students the opportunity to engage with each other online it may open the door to better communication during clinics if they are a little more comfortable with each other a head of time.
As I type this, I also think about all the individual calls we make reaching out to each student before class start. I don't typically make these calls but sometimes get asked to do so because people get busy. Students may be happier being directed to the class Facebook page where all the info is listed out and available to them at any time.
I will think about that one... :)
The only Social Media I use is LinkedIn. I could give facebook a try but I'm afraid what happened last time will happen again. As soon as I created a MySpace account and started reaching out to people, MySpace disappeard. If I create a FaceBook Account, the Mark Zuckerberg will sell off the company and dismantle it. I'll just stick to LinkedIn.
I had never heard about Piazza as a tool and will look into it for possible use.
We use Discord to encourage our students.
You Tube is an awesome soure. I learned the website for rubrics for Social Medica and I will be researching it for ideas.
When I first entered graduate school in the 1990s, one professor told us to get access to the Internet or be left behind as an academic. At the time, there were various chats and bulletin boards for various topics of academia. I'm not sure how many of these still exist. Social media is something different and potentially far more hazardous for students. As a sociologist, I can see several research topics that could involve students studying social media sites.
Nancy Tosh
If students are already immersed in social media for personal purposes, then it may follow
that using social media in an academic setting would assist the instructor in content delivery. However, I am still
skeptical that social media helps students think critically, or value the purpose of contemplative thinking. What's the last book they've read?
Knowledge acquisition is important. Good. But what about the role of reflective thinking?
Social networking especially in today's society is crucial. It has become a tool that you have no choice but to use it, because everyone around you is using it. Back then it was all about staying after class if you have any questions, then we evolved to emails to have communication and answer within an apporpriate time frame. But we have reached a new level, which can either be having all your students sharing a facebook page for example to share lessons, communicate, etc. Or simply creating a whatsapp chat room where everyone can communicate and everyone know and share questions, photos, videos and concerns with online instructor.
Social networking can bring the class together as a whole and allow for questions to be discussed that would not normally be exucuted in class due to time. Also, the outcome of a higher learning ability would possibly be taken into consideration through more thorough discussions.
There is so many social media options. My institution had a combiation of a propprietary, closed systemand also FB access so that instructors and students can set up accounts. It does provide a number of education options. It seems imperative, especially with distance learning.
Interesting introduction to social media and online classroom. So far, a number of questions are coming to mind and as typical in these courses, there is an initial reaction that sounds something like "ok, now another thing to do to add to course development, research, and writing, grading, student interaction, and followup, etc, etc." Beyond this reaction, I am interested in how specific courses that social media use can be used to augment the learning experiences rather than be more busywork of students and professors.
I learned that it is a good teaching method to use social networking to discuss topics amongst our peers. Instead of information being directed to you when in a lecture setting, conversation and trading ideas about a topic in a less formal setting helps to retain information.
You must use social networking tools appropriately when teaching online or offline. Although social media has much greater uses when instructing virtually. Rubrics can be applied to social networking in order to know how much my students understand the material at-hand. One such rubric/metric for measuring student learning is Bloom's Taxonomy.
Social media is simply another teaching tool as well as different strategy for engaging student conversation. The conversation can be fun as in "social " media or an effective communication learning device. The students will be conversing and asking questions and/or comments about the lesson or assignment without even thinking that is another assignment in itself. I love the use of social media within an online class or even a blended class.
Social networking allows me to post videos, articles, and other media that are relevant to the class. Broadens everyone's howizons.
I will make sure adding a a wiki or page to my new course. This is a good way to mantain the engament of the students.
