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And thus changing how students use this skill or understanding. And thus changing how we, as teachers, "teach it."

This could be thought of as depth of understanding, a term that produced a depth of knowledge (DOK) framework for measuring understanding which is still used in many districts. Bloom's Taxonomy (1) or even the TeachThought Learning Taxonomy (2) are all tools to help evaluate understanding -- how well a student "gets it."

1. Use Learning Taxonomies

2. Use Concept Maps

Have students map, chart, diagram or otherwise visually represent their own learning pathways and changes in their own understanding.

3. Use a Variety of Assessment Forms

4. Build Metacognition into Units

Prime the pump by assigning students quick writing prompts about their own thinking.

6. Connect Students to Networks

As students connect to networks, the learning process will plug them in, not just to one teacher, or 25 classmates, or eight texts, but to something much larger -- and more able to interact with students organically.

It is important to be able to keep track of all of your accounts and groups.

If you are leading the social media initiative I would advise you to be a member of all groups or follow all Twitter feeds.

3. Training

4. Content

Social media can be used for extra curricular clubs, trips, marketing and communication, but it is also a powerful tool for teaching and learning.

If you intend to share information using social media, make sure you do not abandon it.

5. Evaluation

Both students and teachers need to be asked in order to get an accurate and balanced perspective of how well your aims and  objectives have been met.