What are The Top Ten Social Learning and Educational Networking Competencies for K-12 Teachers?*
Help students use educational networking tools to solve information problems and communicate digitally with experts, peers and instructors.
Know the major Web 2.0 categories and tools that are useful in the K-12 setting. Know which tools are provided/supported by one's school.
Use educational networking sites to communicate with teaching peers, students and parents.
Navigate, evaluate and create professional content on networking sites.
Use online networking to create, maintain and learn from a personal learning network - AND their students.
Know the district networking guidelines, follow netiquette, conform to ethical standards and interact appropriately with others, especially students, online.
Understand copyright, security and privacy issues on social media sites and share these understandings with students and professional colleagues.
Understand the importance of identity and reputation management using social media and help students understand the long-term impact of personal information shared online.
Create and follow a personal learning plan to stay informed about developing trends, tools and applications of social media.
Participate in the formulation of school and district policies and guidelines related to educational networking and social learning.
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Besides being an interesting resource for information (depending on article and author), this might be a way for students to get some work published on the web.
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This is a best practices example of Wikispaces for an English course or a reading club. This looks like the 21st Century skills and project based learning we have been toying around with
The Reform Symposium is a free online conference for educators, administrators, parents and students. This year the conference is focused on innovative practices in education and what role these practices can play in educational reform.