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I like reading marketing blogs because they focus on communicating and building support for new ideas--sounds a lot like technology integration and education in general. Consider this revised quote from the bookmarked blog post: "The reason social media doesn't matter is because, upon further review, it doesn't exist beyond a label. While all the categorizing, classifying and departmentalizing was going on, that which was called social media simply settled into the center of [learning] and [instructional] strategy and behavior. Everything that we called social media is irrelevant and mislabed - there's a new way of doing [teaching] and [learning] for sure, but it's a behavior and focus on [student] involvement that's become a new norm - and that's all there is to it. We don't need social media tools, social media plans, social media agencies, or social media departments, we need [instructional] strategies and [practices] that are informed by a terribly heightened [learner] expectation."

Presentation by Wes Fryer and Karen Montgomery on social media guidelines

text, subtext, context -- how the open nature of social networking leads to messages that rely upon key cultural/contextual understandings to arrive at the "correct" meaning.

social networking for schools- "twitter like"

Thought this might be interesting to look at in developing social media policy. If anyone has any thoughts on how useful it is please post them!

collect, reflect on and share your achievements and development online, in a space you control create online communities and social network through Groups, Blogs and Forums

This article fails to mention that kids often times have two Facebook accounts: one that parents know about and one that they don't. Monitoring applications may further promote this model.

Great discussion in the comments

Anne Collier's blog post about the Online Safety & Technology Working Group report that calls for, among other things, increased education in media literacy--seeing students as both consumers and producers--and inclusion of more social media in the schools. A link to the full report can be found in the "related links" section at the end of the post.

social studies/geography resource

This discussion group is going on right now with the author Bill Kist. Outstanding book and discussion forum on social networking in classrooms.

Interactive whiteboard resources for Science, Math, Language Arts, Social Studies created by Scholastic.

Flipboard is a fast, beautiful way to flip through the news, photos and updates your friends are sharing on Facebook, Twitter, Google Reader and Flickr. See your social media in a magazine layout that is easy to scan and fun to read. Share articles and photos

Example of one UK school where all students have accounts and a lot of their work is posted to their social network.

"I wonder if not using computers, mobile devices, social media in schools, etc., on a consistent, yet balanced basis, would be the equivalent of Sir Ken working in the dark as a student?"

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