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100 Tips, Tools, and Resources for Teaching Students About Social Media | Teaching Degr... - 2 views

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    many different ways for teaching students to about social media
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Cyberbullying: Should schools police students' social media accounts? (+video) - CSMoni... - 0 views

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    This article talks about the trouble with to much social media and the use of "Cyberbullying". I think this is an important article for all incoming teachers to read and understand.
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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
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    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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  • This school year, the 1.1 million-student New York City system launched a new text-subscription service that notifies parents in English or Spanish of school news and a series of webinars on topics of relevance to parents. The 640,000-student Los Angeles school district hired its first-ever director of social media this past spring, whose main charge is communicating and sharing district information with parents and students via tools such as YouTube, Twitter, and Tumblr.
  • In the 182,000-student Fairfax County school system in Virginia, 84,500 people have subscribed to the district's enhanced news and information email and text service, the district's Facebook page has 26,000 "likes," and its Twitter account has 8,100 followers
  • digital technologies to improve communication between the school and parents
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  • has its teachers use Skype to run parent conferences and airs live and archived video of all parent and teacher association meetings for parents who are unable to attend. Recently, Mr. Mazza and some staff members even brought laptops into a local mosque that a number of the school's families attend, and streamed live footage there of one of the meetings
  • About 2,000 parents have already received training since the start of school this year, according to Kelly Cline, the senior manager of parent engagement for the Houston district.
  • Chris Ruether on 03 Oct 13
     
    This article talks about teaching the parents about how to use social media properly in order for them to stay up to date about many things in their children's lives. one example is using Skype to do parent teacher conferences. Also using high-quality digital content in the homes is allowing parents to once again help their students with homework.
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Why Schools Must Teach Social Networking | Network.Ed - 0 views

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  • Students have discovered that learning is no longer bound to the confines of the school building and schools are beginning to realise that teaching students how to use these technologies effectively for academic purposes is essential if they want their students to engage in the use of social networking appropriately, less sporadically and more spectacularly.
  • The use of the internet is becoming an ever more integral part of young people’s lives and, as a result, they are communicating with each other on an unprecedented scale.
  • In my view, teaching and learning need to reflect these social changes and conform to the needs and expectations of today’s young people.
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  • Your private life should remain private. Being friends with pupils on Facebook is not ok as it exposes you and your pupils to unacceptable risks.
  • Handling all this information has suddenly become one of the most precious skills we can hope to pass on to our students. How teachers and schools react and adapt to this new paradigm will bear direct consequences in the future success of their pupils, for remembering facts and figures may not be as important to them in their lives as being able to successfully acquire, manipulate and exploit information.
  • Chris Ruether on 03 Oct 13
     
    This article argues that teachers should actually teach their students how to use these social media outlets successfully so they can use them in the class room. I think this is an important article to show how important it is to bridge that gap between student and teacher.
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Social Media in Higher Education: A Literature Review and Research Directions | Charles... - 0 views

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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
  • announcements, school closings due to inclement weather or other reasons, alerts, and
  • 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.
  • These young media consumers are more connected than
  • 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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social media in higher education - Google Scholar - 0 views

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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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