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innovating the curriculum through social media
This document discusses innovating curriculum through social media and technology. It notes that knowledge becomes outdated faster, there is more knowledge than can fit in a curriculum, and core skills are changing. This clashes with academia's traditional model of one-to-many broadcasting of finalized knowledge by authoritative teachers. However, social media allows for user-generated content, small-scale sharing, open works in progress, and networking. The document suggests ways to use social media like wikis, blogs and Twitter to develop curriculum collaboratively, crowdsource lecture questions, and make assignments social processes with student-created content and peer feedback. Issues like ethics, digital skills, and access are also noted.
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- 1. LAIBS Learning andTeaching Conference Innovating our curriculum through social media and technology Dr Helen Webster, Anglia Learning and Teaching Dr Debbie Holley, Dept of Education
- 2. Why do weneed to innovate the curriculum? • Knowledge gets out of date faster and faster – it has a shorter half-life • Knowledge is growing exponentially and there is more knowledge than can ever be contained in the curriculum • The knowledge is out there on the Internet anyway • Core skills are changing or becoming redundant • Students are not learning in the way we expect, sometimes circumventing or undermining processes All of this has something to do with digital technology
- 3. A Clash ofTwo Cultures Question: What annoys/ irritates/frustrates you most about your students’ use of Digital Technology in their Learning?
- 4. Clash of TwoCultures Academia Digital, Social Media • Teacher-created, student consumed • Large scale broadcast • Authority, one-to-many • Final, authoritative version • Closed, determined • Individual lone scholar • Plagiarism, possession of ideas • Academic Text (some images) • User-created and consumed ‘produser’ • Small scale narrowcast • Peer, many-to-many • Early release, perpetual beta • Open, emergent • Networked, collaborative • Frictionless creation and sharing • Multi-media, multi genre
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- 8. Synergy of TwoCultures Digital Social Media Education • User-created and consumed ‘produser’ • Small scale narrowcast • Peer, many-to-many • Early release, perpetual beta • Open, emergent • Networked, collaborative • Frictionless creation and sharing • Multimedia • Student as active partner in learning • Tailored, personalised learning • Collaborative, constructivist • Assess process, not product • Dynamic, creative curriculum • Peer learning • Capturing and sharing learning • Multimodal learning
- 9. Digital Openness Thinkcreatively… Affordances and technological determinism Vs Emergent, creative use in tune with digital culture and good pedagogy
- 10. Digital Technology Arewe talking about… • Using technology to enhance how we teach, learn and assess? (do things differently) • Reviewing how and what we teach, how and what students learn, in a world which is altered by technology? (do different things, flip the classroom!)
- 11. Definitions: Social Media • Web 2.0 • User generated content* • Networked and shared, many to many • *Content: ▫ Multimedia (including text) ▫ Metadata and curation ▫ Edits, additions and comments
- 12. What do youcreate as teacher? Assessment design Curriculum Presentation materials (Annotated) Reading lists Guides and Handbooks Handouts Assessment criteria and feedback What students create: • Notes from teaching and reading • Anything they need to process learning (more notes) • Assignments
- 13. Some ideas…. Bibliograwiki • Discussion forum/Twitter suggest search terms, likely formats and databases, crowdsource suggestions • Mendeley/Delicious Collate and curate a reading list, tag with metadata • Wiki Summarise and annotate reading list • Blog Critique articles/books • Wiki Synthesise debates and trends
- 14. Some ideas… Hackthe Lecture • Wiki develop the curriculum and keep it updating throughout • Twitter/Discussion Forum Crowdsource questions and topics to cover in module/lecture • Powerpoint/Dropbox students research and create a slide each • (Lecture, using student-created slides) Looking things up on mobile devices • Blog/Twitter/mindmap software Liveblog or livetweet the lecture • Wiki/Storify lecture notes into a collaborative version • Youtube/lecturecapture/Audacity Student-edited clips of the main points of the lecture (audio/video)
- 15. Some ideas… Thesocial assignment • Wiki/discussion forum Students suggest and discuss assignments, materials and assessment criteria • Blog: Students select assignment, and blog weekly progress: ▫ Question analysis ▫ Essay plan ▫ Search strategies and reading notes ▫ Rough draft ▫ Revised draft ▫ Anticipated feedback ▫ Response to feedback • Students share exemplars and annotate
- 16. Issues: Ethics andlegality Digital natives or digital divide? Opportunity to develop Digital Literacy