Forum on the use of social media in the university classroom

Social Media Workshop
March 21st 2011, Ryerson

Discussion: Use of Social Media (20 mn)
(1 answer per post-it note)
What is your interest in social media?
What discipline do you come from?
Do you use Social Media in your classroom? (Why or why not?)
Do your students use social media? (What for?)
Does your profession use social media? (If yes, what for?)

Some Stats…. About Social Media

The 21st Century Workplace uses Social Media

Mind Shift ?
Jimmy Wales on Collaboration: Drastic different approach to ethics and values
Different values require different Infrastructures

Participation Relies on a Different Form of Intelligence
Social Intelligence
The C Factor: Canergie Research
Collective Intelligence
Conversations/listening
Building communities of Interest and practices

Emerging Infrastructures

From The Bloom Information as Learning Age

To The Age of Learning Through Experience

To Socially Situated Participation
Source: http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/Bloom%27s+Digital+Taxonomy

Digital Citizen
According to Howard Rheingold Network literacieseducation needs to addressed
Attention
Collaboration
Critical Consumption
Network Awareness
Participation

Digital workforce
According to corporate culture, 21st Century, students’ learning should include:
1. Core Subjects and 21st Century Themes
2. Learning and Innovation Skills
Creativity and Innovation
Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
Communication and Collaboration
3. Information, Media and Technology Skills
Information Literacy
Media Literacy
ICT Literacy
4. Life and Career Skills
Source: http://www.p21.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=254&Itemid=119

Discussion: social learning inPedagogy and Curriculum (15 mn)
Do you feel comfortable teaching these new skills? Why?

Often Mentioned Barrier
How can I teaching things I don’t know or do not use?
Potential solution: social constructivist and constructionist learning scaffolding

Constructivist Scaffolding

Constructionism Focuses on technological Learning

Iterative Layers to Knowledge Scaffolding
Physical/informal connection to making (individual)
Activities of interest
Learning norms (with peers or teacher)
Family/information/social/making/professional norms
i.e. lecture, home life
i.e. youtube
Hacking norms (with peers)
Experimenting with transforming norms to one’s own purpose
Making a project/testing new hypothesis
Reflecting upon hacking (with teacher)
Mindfulness (reflect while making)

Social Media Is a Norm for Students
"We all already have Facebook. It saves us signing up for another service that doesn't even operate as well. We all know how Facebook works too. Its a great platform to collaborate on as Facebook, for many young people has become an extension of their social selves. Its also a fairly reliable service to get in contact with someone. For a lot of us, checking and surfing Facebook regularly has become second nature, so you'll probably hear back from whoever your getting in contact with."- Connor Crawford"The new group feature for Facebook came in really handy for group assignments this year, the majority of us students already have a Facebook account, and it was really easy to get a group organized. One person set up the group and added all of our members to it and that was it. It worked really well for a way to contact all members of our group at once, picking out times to meet and where, or ask a simple question and have all group member's input. The group, once created has a separate wall, where only members can write and share on. It was also really helpful when we wanted to share content, you just uploaded a picture or a document and everyone in the group had access to it. This made it really easy to share everything collectively and set up our website. We have actually kept the group running and still use it in our class this semester, we've just added a few new members. This way of communicating was really effective, instantaneous and simple. "- Stephanie Redmond

Co-constructed Knowledge Scaffolding: Creating Learning Networks
Formalize informal connection to making
Create a bridge between teacher-student-professional fields of interests
Learning norms (with peers and teacher, professionals)
Inform each other through research projects presentations
Hacking norms (with peers)
Develop a new form together in ]/for the classroom
Reflecting upon hacking (with teacher)
Mindfulness (reflect while making)

Scaffolding In Pedagogy and Curriculum
Do you use any type of scaffolding in the design of your class and your program’s curriculum?
Can you adapt these methods to social media?
What activities can you think of to develop a learning network in your classroom that bridges your knowledge and communication methods with those of your students?

Discussion: Pedagogy and Curriculum (20 mn)
What scaffolding activities, if any, do you think can promote Digital Citizenry in your classrooms? What activities could you create to enhance these skills?
Core Subjects and 21st Century Themes
2. Learning and Innovation Skills
Creativity and Innovation , Critical Thinking and Problem Solving, Communication and Collaboration
3. Information, Media and Technology Skills
Information Literacy, Media Literacy , ICT Literacy
4. Life and Career Skills
5. Network literacies education needs to addressed
Attention, Collaboration, Critical Consumption, Network Awareness, Participation

Experimenting With Learning Networks
Source: http://blip.tv/file/3385515/

Emerging Mobile Learning Networks Model
Incorporates informal learning opportunities:
acknowledging that innovation exists outside of institutions;
accepting peer culture within fluid institutional boundaries;
facilitate new infrastructures for informal learning;
personal interest drives learning.
Education socializes us to:
mixed spheres of social/learning interactions;
the value of intrinsic interest and motivation;
the value of personal, practical knowledge;
alternative ways of knowing.

Curriculum Scaffolding
Course one: introduction to the environment
Course two: introduction to documentation
Course three: Hack process (make it your own)
Course four: Critiques

Some examples
Researching social media: Team Work, team 14, team 11?
Blogs?
Youtube?
Online communities?

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