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  • Chris Ruether on 03 Oct 13
     
    I couldn't bookmark the single article so I just bookmarked the webpage with all of them. The first article talks about the evolution of social media in the class room. It also talks about how the educators are attempting to adapt to the social media world their students live in.
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  • Given this insight
  • SMTs are reshaping theway students communicate
  • They utilize wall posts, event notifications, and tweets to inform students about upcoming
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  • events and
  • activities, athletic games and competitions, deadlines, reminders, general college
  • These young media consumers are more connected than
  • emergencies. The use of social media in recruitment, marketing, or managing the college’s brand
  • image (mostly through one-way communication) was the next most frequent purpose listed.
  • announcements, school closings due to inclement weather or other reasons, alerts, and
  • any previous generation, and they have an expectation to remain that way in all aspects of their lives (Prensky, 2005).
  • Chris Ruether on 03 Oct 13
     
    This article indicates the increased usage by universities and other higher education institutes of social media. It seems to imply that the more integrated a teacher is with social media such as Facebook and YouTube in the class room the better the students respond.
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How Social Networking Helps Teaching (and Worries Some Professors) - Technology - The C... - 1 views

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  • Ask students to do role-playing exercises on Facebook or Twitter. For instance, students in an American-history course could each be required to set up a Facebook page for a historical figure and periodically post "status updates" of things the famous people did. Similarly, Utah State University organized a Civil War re-enactment on Twitter.
  • Some attendees stressed that there is a danger that professors would use
  • new technologies just because they seemed cool, rather than for any specific learning goa
  • Chris Ruether on 03 Oct 13
     
    This article gave specific examples of how social media was used in the class room. Being a History major I especially liked the idea of making pages for certain historical figures and posting status updates about things that person did
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