The document discusses the use of social media in education. It notes that social media has become an extension of students' social lives and is a familiar platform for collaboration. The document proposes using scaffolding and constructionist approaches to integrate social media skills into pedagogy and curriculum. This includes developing learning networks that bridge the knowledge and communication norms of teachers and students. Examples are given of potential scaffolding activities like researching social media platforms or creating blogs and videos to enhance skills like digital citizenship, collaboration and critical thinking.

1. Social Media Discussion March 21st 2011, Ryerson

2. Discussion: Use of Social Media (20 mn) (1 answer per post-it note) 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?)

3. Some Stats…. About Social Media

4. The 21st Century Workplace uses Social Media

7. Emerging Infrastructures

8. From The Bloom Information as Learning Age

9. To The Age of Learning Through Experience

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

11. Digital Citizen According to Howard Rheingold Network literacies education needs to addressed Attention Collaboration Critical Consumption Network Awareness Participation

13. Critical Thinking and Problem Solving

15. Media Literacy

16. ICT Literacy4. Life and Career Skills Source: http://www.p21.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=254&Itemid=119

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

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

19. Constructivist Scaffolding

20. Constructionism Focuses on technological Learning

21. 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)

22. 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

23. 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)

24. 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?

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

28. accepting peer culture within fluid institutional boundaries;

29. facilitate new infrastructures for informal learning;

31. the value of intrinsic interest and motivation;

32. the value of personal, practical knowledge;

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