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This document discusses using social media for learning, teaching, and research. It outlines the characteristics of new media technologies and their implications. Some key benefits of social media include allowing students to communicate with peers and researchers to participate in global communities. However, there are also risks like time consumption and privacy issues. The document explores various social media tools and provides case studies of tools being used for recruitment, research dissemination, employability, and enhancing learning and teaching. Overall, it argues that social media enable new forms of collaboration but require developing new digital literacy skills.
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- 1. Using social mediafor learning, teaching and research Gráinne Conole Bath Spa Innovating Pedagogy Seminar 9th March 2016 National Teaching Fellow 2012 Ascilite fellow 2012EDEN fellow 2013
- 2. Outline • Characteristics ofnew media • What is your digital network • Using social media for: – Learning – Teaching – Research • Benefits and risks • Types of tools • Case studies • Blogs, Twitter and facebook
- 3. Activity • What arethe characteristics of new technologies? • What are their implications for learning, teaching and research?
- 4. New media Characteristics • Lotsout there! • LinkedIn – what the benefits? • A lot of superficial use • Time consuming and distracting • Need to be disciplined with the use of social media Implications Conole and Alevizou, 2010
- 5. 5 • Technology immersed •Learning approaches: task- orientated, experiential, just in time, cumulative, social • Personalised digital learning environment • Mix of institutional systems and Cloud-based tools and services • Use of course materials with free resources Sharpe, Beetham and De Freitas, 2010 Learner experience
- 6. EDUCAUSE study • Studentsdrawn to new technologies but rely on more traditional ones • Consider technologies offer major educational benefits • Mixed views of LMSs http://www.educause.edu/studentsAndTechnologyInfographic
- 7. Game changers • Harnessthe power of new media • Need to rethink education • How can we reach more learners, more effectively? • Impact of free resources, tools and expertise? • New business models? • New digital literacies? http://www.educause.edu/game-changers
- 8. Activity: What’s yourdigital network? http://www.flickr.com/photos/factoryjoe/195492568/
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- 10. Activity: fb loveit or hate it? Pros • Sharing issues • Focus on personal interests, like music Cons • Don’t use enough • Sharing personal stuff • Trivial posts
- 11. What tools canstudents use for their learning? • Don’t use Minerva enough • Email • Google to find relevant resources • Fb and Twitter • Phone • Multi-tasking across tools • Phone at the centre of their learning • YouTube and free resources
- 12. What tools doyou use for teaching? • Google, YouTube • Minerva • PowerPoint • Guest speakers • Skype for tutorials • Students like videos, but keep under 10 minutes http://e4innovation.com/?p=800
- 13. What tools doyou use for Research? • Google, Google Scholar • Library • Dragon voice activated software • Skype
- 14. Activity: using newmedia for research • How would you use the following for research (i.e. data collection, dissemination, discussion)? –Blogs –Facebook –Google+ –LinkedIn –Academia.edu –Twitter –Flickr and Youtube –Diigo –Mandeley –Dropbox –Others?
- 15. Social media • Rangeof internet-based tools that allow people to create, co-create, share and interact with information
- 16. Benefits of socialmedia • Students can communicate with their peers • Researchers can be part of a global community • Students can use to demonstrate their competences • Universities can use to interact with a variety of audiences
- 17. Risks of socialmedia • Ethical, privacy and security issues • Time consuming • Inappropriate use • Ownership • Constantly changing
- 18. Types of tools •Social networking tools – e.g. facebook • Reflective tools – e.g. blogs and Twitter • Gaming tools and virtual worlds – e.g. SecondLife • Communication tools – e.g. WhatsApp • Consumer tools – e.g. price comparison sites
- 19. Case studies • Recruitmentand transition to HE – Social searching for recruitment – Support prior to enrolment – Peer mentoring • Research – Part of a scholarly community – Development of a professional profile – Disseminating research – Resource discovery – Undertaking research
- 20. Case studies • Employability –Social Media Knowledge Exchange – Development of a professional network • Public engagement – Dissemination to general public • Enhancing learning and teaching – Extending beyond the classroom – Peer review – Twitter as a back channel – Keeping in touch when on placement – Wikis to co-create knowledge • Keeping in touch with Alumni
- 21. Blogs • Of themoment reflections • Digital archive • The power of peer review • Record of events, reviews and resources • Wider audience reach and hence profile • Link into facebook and Twitter • Complements traditional publication routes e4innovation.com gconole.wordpress,com
- 22. Bloggers worth reading M.Weller G. Siemens T. Anderson
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- 24. Ideas for harnessingWeb 2.0? Twitter
- 25. Doing a sessionon using social media for learning, teaching and research, any good links? Anna Mathews @anna_mathews 22h22 hours ago Hi @gconole You might find this link http://www.ucisa.ac.uk/socialmedia more useable @gillferrell @ucisa
- 26. Final thoughts • Participatoryand social media enable new forms of communication and collaboration • Communities in these spaces are complex and distributed • Learners and teachers need to develop new digital literacy skills to harness their potential • We need to rethink how we design, support and assess learning • Open, participatory and social media can provide mechanisms for us to share and discuss teaching and research ideas in new ways • We are seeing a blurring of boundaries: teachers/learners, teaching/research, real/virtual spaces, formal/informal modes of communication and
- 27. References • UCISA socialmedia toolkit – http://www.ucisa.ac.uk/~/media/Files/publications/social_ media/344996%20UCISA%20-%20Book%20v8%208-12-15- final.ashx • M. Weller - The digital scholar – http://oro.open.ac.uk/29664/ • EDUCAUSE – http://er.educause.edu/articles/2009/12/horton-hears-a- tweet • Using Twitter to enhance social presence – http://patricklowenthal.com/publications/Using_Twitter_t o_Enhance_Social_Presence.pdf
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