Being Good Digital Partners With College Students On #SocialMedia
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Originally presented at the Colorado College Personnel Association Conference in February 2016. Discusses the developmental journeys of college students online and how to be good educational partners.
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- 2. (Turkle, 2004, para 6) āI want to study not only what the computer is doing for us, but what it is doing to us.ā - Turkle
- 4. Question Research How do college students conceptualize who they are and how they present themselves whenĀ they areĀ engaged inĀ digital and social media? @paulgordonbrown
- 8. We need to educate students on digital reputation.
- 12. DigitalIdentity/ Reputation vs Digitized Development What We Produce vs What We Are What Other People See vs How We See Ourselves Can Be Taught Through Rules vs Must Be Learned Dynamically A By-Product Of Development vs The Developmental Process Itself
- 17. Whatdoes mean?
- 23. Addie discussing the pursuit of Likes: āāHow many Likes did your post get? What does that mean?ā ā¦That number in itself doesnāt mean anything unless you compare it to other posts. Then you get in that whole thing where people start comparing themselves to other people. That really isnāt the best route to go down. Is that what you should be doing whenever you have a piece of content and it doesnāt do as well as someone elseās? What does that say about you?
- 24. I personally donāt think that that should be something you take personally. āWow everyone on the Internet hates me.ā I donāt think that should be the reaction but I donāt know that everyone else feels the same way. I know people that have deleted posts because they donāt get enough Likes. I know people who Unlike a photo on Instagram because it suddenly now has a hundred Likes and theyāre mad about. That doesnāt make sense to me. Youāre thinking about it too much.ā
- 25. āThat number in itself doesnāt mean anything unless you compare it to other posts.ā āYouāre thinking about it too much.ā
- 27. !
- 29. Hallie discussing how social media creates a perfected imageā¦ āI think it was cool that [my professor] asked us think about the highlight reel. Do we use social media as a highlight reel of our lives and how many times out of ten would you say that you wouldn't post something because it's not a highlight. And all of us were like, āOh, all the time.ā He was like, āGo through your day. How many things would you post, and how many wouldn't you?ā
- 30. ā¦I would just encourage [educators] to ask their students about recognizingānot necessarily changing itābut recognizing that what they post, and what other people post, isn't 100 percent their lives. Because there's a lot of times when you think that people have the best life ever because of what they're posting. When in reality they're going through a lot, and probably many similar things that you are, but because they're posting all this fun stuļ¬, you think that their lives are perfect.ā
- 31. āā¦in the back of my mind thereās a certain standard of interaction that I get on every single tweet that I donāt want to make sure I donāt drop below.ā - Mesut
- 35. āThatās what, I assume, [is] causing my greatest dissatisfaction at [college]. Seeing my life in comparison to others.ā - Logan
- 36. āI deļ¬nitely think about it more than I should.ā - Ashley
- 37. āā¦itās almost like doing a dance that you canāt be too much of something.ā - Liam
- 39. games playing
- 40. Logan discussing the eļ¬ects of comparison: āYeah itās exhausting. I mean I do it all the time and itās what causes my unhappinessā¦ Itās just things where the comparisons get so intense and I feel like Iām just a constant failure and especially because Iām not really happy with what Iām doing. So Iām like why, I donāt know, just why am I comparing? Itās only making it worse.ā
- 41. āI've got to keep up.ā - Annie
- 43. Mesut discussing the positive eļ¬ects of social media comparison: āI feel I try to engage in more fun things or try and make more of an eļ¬ort to go have a diļ¬erent experienceā¦ Itās almost an extra little push to make me go do something like that just because. Why not? So in that regard I feel it made me explore diļ¬erent opportunities and diļ¬erentākinda almost a diļ¬erent career path than I thought I wanted to do.ā
- 47. Engage with students on social media because we need to understand them in all of their contexts. Be open to a different (not necessarily better or worse) way.
- 50. Learn from and with students how to navigate the online environment. Help them avoid mistakes. Help them understand their self- presentation and reputation online. Be a role model.
- 53. vulnerable be
- 54. Understand how social media may impact the developmental process-both in light of current theory and in ways we do not yet understand. Be able to help students understand, navigate and leverage it.
- 55. be a good partner