Social Media: Teaching ideas for Primary Education
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The legal age for students to use many social media sites is 13 however many media sites are targeted at and being accessed by our primary students. So what should we do about it? Ban social media or educate? I believe that we need to educate students how to use social media safely and appropriately before they are even old enough to use it. These are my teaching ideas. Many of the ideas are videos. Why? Our students are living in a media rich environment, why not embrace their media culture?
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- 1. Social Media and Primary Education By Joanne Villis
- 2. Social Media and Primary Education By Joanne Villis Social media includes people, places, platforms and the Internet.
- 3. Social Media and Primary Education By Joanne Villis Before I go any further can I please ask you to turn off your devices? The video on the following page is what happened when John Ronald's asked the audience to turn off their devices for his presentation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soAk3F0wX9s
- 4. Social Media and Primary Education By Joanne Villis Social Media and Primary School Students “13 years is the age set by Congress in the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), which prohibits web sites from collecting information on children younger than 13 years without parental permission. The official terms of service for many popular sites now mirror the COPPA regulations and state that 13 years is the minimum age to sign up and have a profile. This is the minimum age to sign on to Facebook. However, there are some sites geared for children of younger ages that do not have such an age restriction”. (http://www.pedialliance.com/socialmediaguide ).
- 5. Social Media and Primary Education By Joanne Villis However, a growing number of social networking websites are aimed at children as young as 6 or 7. “Social networking websites generally enable members to create personal profiles. These can include text, photographs and video images, and often contain personal information. One concern about social networking is that it often involves participants disclosing personal information to a worldwide audience. This concern is highlighted when children and young people disclose personal information when participating in online social networking, given their more limited capacity to understand the consequences of disclosure of personal information in an online environment” (http://www.alrc.gov.au/publications/67.%20Children,%20Young%20People%20and%20%20Attit udes%20to%20Privacy/online-social-networking ).
- 6. Social Media and Primary Education By Joanne Villis We can’t ban social media because…
- 7. Social Media and Primary Education Our students are networked. By Joanne Villis http://www.flickr.com/photos/funksoup/403990660/
- 8. Social Media and Primary Education By Joanne Villis What can we do?
- 9. Social Media and Primary Education By Joanne Villis We can teach them how to understand, view and participate.
- 10. Social Media and Primary Education By Joanne Villis TEACHING IDEAS Foundation Years (Reception and Year 1) Hectors’ World features high quality 2D animations with fun and engaging characters. Students observe the characters as they learn how to stay safe online. Key issues include protecting personal information, online privacy, cyber bullying and e-security. http://www.cybersmart.gov.au/young%20kids/visit-hectors- world.aspx Hippo and Hedgehog Cyber Five. http://www.abcya.com/cyber_five_internet_safety.htm
- 11. Social Media and Primary Education By Joanne Villis TEACHING IDEAS Year 2 Teach students how to use their email. A great video to support students’ understanding of the online world compared to their normal world is embedded on the following page. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUO7t92k4Xg Teach students how to blog using a class blog.
- 12. Social Media and Primary Education By Joanne Villis TEACHING IDEAS Year 3 & 4 Teach students how the world wide web works. Two videos are embedded on the following pages. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8hzJxb0rpc#t=232 and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv0XCaUkfNk
- 13. Social Media and Primary Education By Joanne Villis TEACHING IDEAS Year 3 & 4 Continue to encourage students to use their email and participate in class blogs. Play Cyber Pigs Episode 1 and 2. http://mediasmarts.ca/game/privacy-playground-first-adventure- three-cyberpigs http://mediasmarts.ca/ game/cybersense-and-nonsense- second-adventure -three-cyberpigs
- 14. Social Media and Primary Education By Joanne Villis TEACHING IDEAS Year 3 & 4 Introduce students to social media by watching Lee and Kim’s Adventure. https://www.youtube. com/watch?v=-nMUbH uffO8 Teach students about their digital footprint. https://www.youtube. com/watch?v=kHYkWt I7004
- 15. Social Media and Primary Education By Joanne Villis TEACHING IDEAS Year 5 & 6 Students in these year levels need to be continually taught about cyber bullying and online etiquette. It shouldn’t be a one off lesson or a unit of work which is taught at the start of the year. It needs to be taught and discussed all year!
- 16. Social Media and Primary Education By Joanne Villis TEACHING IDEAS Year 5 & 6 Videos which teachers may find useful are embedded on the following pages. The URL’s are below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lN2fuKPDzHA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_JB9mA_O3c Oversharing video isn’t embedded. Here is the link: https://www.commonsensemedia.org/videos/oversharin g-think-before-you-post
- 17. Social Media and Primary Education By Joanne Villis TEACHING IDEAS Year 7 & 8 These videos hit students hard. Considering the social media which these students are exposed to and are using, I think they are appropriate. However, always view any content before showing your students, you know your students, no me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hK5OeGeudBM https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embed ded&v=P-n8J3WDq5Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5PZ_Bh- M6o#t=164
- 18. Social Media and Primary Education By Joanne Villis TEACHING IDEAS Year 7 & 8 If the previous videos are too confronting for your students you may like to use Little Red Riding Hood Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embed ded&v=KGr_KFiCX4s . or Cyber Café (http://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/8_10/cybercafe/Cyber- Cafe-Base/ ) which is an online game. In addition teachers may like to use Fakebook (http://www.classtools.net/fb/home/page ) which is an online resource which allows users to establish a Fakebook page.
- 19. Social Media and Primary Education By Joanne Villis TEACHING IDEAS Year 7 & 8 What is Instagram https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N92MQ9o4Fe0 ? Although students in year 7 and 8 are likely not to be old enough to use Instagram many of them will be using it. The following video is one which I used with my son who was in year 7 at the time and created an account without my permission. Deleting the account may have resulted social issues at school as ‘everyone else had one’ and they were apparently ‘pressuring him to have on’. So I decided to teach him how to use Instagram appropriately. No selfies! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhHcpjjv6Rk
- 20. Social Media and Primary Education By Joanne Villis TEACHING IDEAS My favourite blogging platforms for year 2 to year 8 students: 1. Weebly because it is the easiest for teachers to set up. 2. Kisdblog (easy to use for student’s personal blogs. I don’t use it as I teach year 3 and we use a class blog). 3. Edublog (this is harder than weebly but another platform which I use). 4. Edmodo (ideal for year 7 and 8).
- 21. Social Media and Primary Education By Joanne Villis Questions and discussions
- 22. Social Media and Primary Education By Joanne Villis Concluding video is embedded on the following slide. Social media and humanity? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRl8EIhrQjQ Created by Joanne Villis http://intertecheducation.edublogs.org/ http://www.pinterest.com/joannevillis/ Images: http://pixabay.com/