This paper describes the role that aggregation of social media can contribute to teaching and to learning. With respect to teaching, assessment is enhanced because the aggregate stream of social media activity produces an artifact that exhibits what and how students are learning and discovering. With respect to learning, engagement is enhanced because the aggregate stream of social media activity encourages students to interact with each other by cooperating and by commenting on others’ learning and discovery.
Especially promising is the prospect for the course (and subsequent learning) to “continue” even after the semester ends and even for assessment data to be collected longitudinally.
Introduction to Social Media in EducationJason Rhode
Do you use Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube? Have you ever considered leveraging social media tools like these in your teaching? During this introductory online session led by Jason Rhode on 9/28/2012, we explored what social media are and the pedagogical potential for use of social media in educational settings. We set the stage for future sessions to further explore use of social media tools and the design of engaging and innovative learning activities.
Presentation on social networking, its history and its role as an educational tool, presented by Andy Carvin to the University of Maryland/Baltimore's School of Nursing.
Introduction to Social Media in EducationJason Rhode
Do you use Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube? Have you ever considered leveraging social media tools like these in your teaching? During this introductory online session led by Jason Rhode on 9/28/2012, we explored what social media are and the pedagogical potential for use of social media in educational settings. We set the stage for future sessions to further explore use of social media tools and the design of engaging and innovative learning activities.
Presentation on social networking, its history and its role as an educational tool, presented by Andy Carvin to the University of Maryland/Baltimore's School of Nursing.
UPDATED PPT on Role social media in teaching and learning dr manishankar chak...Dr.Manishankar Chakraborty
UPDATED presentation on Social Media and its role in teaching and learning for the workshop conducted by Dr Manishankar Chakraborty for the teaching staff members of Ibra College of Technology, Sultanate of Oman on the 29th of April 2013.
Social Media achieves the best results when used as part of a wider integrated marketing strategy.
Check out our simple best practice tips to help you maximise your social media impact!
The Future of Learning: Embracing Social Learning for SuccessSaba Software
Today, the world is grounded in a vast and dynamic world of information and technology. Organizations
have access to content like never before, compounded by the Web 2.0 movement. This ability to
communicate swiftly evolved into collaboration that has become an intense driver of the “knowledge
economy.”
During the last two years we have seen how knowledge management and leadership development
via learning are being incorporated more frequently as strategies to increase organizational agility.1
Additionally, learning organizations that act as strategic enablers for the business are more focused on
connecting people to people and content through knowledge management and social technology.
Saba Software partnered with Human Capital Media (HCM) Advisory Group to better understand how
business is taking advantage of social learning. In the 2013 survey, HCM examined how organizations are
approaching social learning, which methods have proven to be successful and where challenges are experienced.
Social media? Get serious! Understanding the functional building blocks of so...Ian McCarthy
Traditionally, consumers used the Internet to simply expend content: they read it, they watched it, and they used it to buy products and services. Increasingly, however, consumers are utilizing platforms –— such as content sharing sites, blogs,
social networking, and wikis–—to create, modify, share, and discuss Internet content. This represents the social media phenomenon, which can now significantly impact a firm’s reputation, sales, and even survival. Yet, many executives eschew or ignore this form of media because they don’t understand what it is, the various forms it can take, and how to engage with it and learn. In response, we present a framework that defines
social media by using seven functional building blocks: identity, conversations, sharing, presence, relationships, reputation, and groups. As different social media activities are defined by the extent to which they focus on some or all of these blocks,
we explain the implications that each block can have for how firms should engage with social media. To conclude, we present a number of recommendations regarding how firms should develop strategies for monitoring, understanding, and responding to different social media activities.
Assessing learning via social bookmarking using diigoThomas Ho
There are several opportunities to interact with others about this presentation:
Edmodo group at:
http://www.edmodo.com/public/assess-learning-w-social-media/group_id/629548
Google+ post at:
https://plus.google.com/b/100042967314776563438/100042967314776563438/posts/C1wMiM5cbhx
UPDATED PPT on Role social media in teaching and learning dr manishankar chak...Dr.Manishankar Chakraborty
UPDATED presentation on Social Media and its role in teaching and learning for the workshop conducted by Dr Manishankar Chakraborty for the teaching staff members of Ibra College of Technology, Sultanate of Oman on the 29th of April 2013.
Social Media achieves the best results when used as part of a wider integrated marketing strategy.
Check out our simple best practice tips to help you maximise your social media impact!
The Future of Learning: Embracing Social Learning for SuccessSaba Software
Today, the world is grounded in a vast and dynamic world of information and technology. Organizations
have access to content like never before, compounded by the Web 2.0 movement. This ability to
communicate swiftly evolved into collaboration that has become an intense driver of the “knowledge
economy.”
During the last two years we have seen how knowledge management and leadership development
via learning are being incorporated more frequently as strategies to increase organizational agility.1
Additionally, learning organizations that act as strategic enablers for the business are more focused on
connecting people to people and content through knowledge management and social technology.
Saba Software partnered with Human Capital Media (HCM) Advisory Group to better understand how
business is taking advantage of social learning. In the 2013 survey, HCM examined how organizations are
approaching social learning, which methods have proven to be successful and where challenges are experienced.
Social media? Get serious! Understanding the functional building blocks of so...Ian McCarthy
Traditionally, consumers used the Internet to simply expend content: they read it, they watched it, and they used it to buy products and services. Increasingly, however, consumers are utilizing platforms –— such as content sharing sites, blogs,
social networking, and wikis–—to create, modify, share, and discuss Internet content. This represents the social media phenomenon, which can now significantly impact a firm’s reputation, sales, and even survival. Yet, many executives eschew or ignore this form of media because they don’t understand what it is, the various forms it can take, and how to engage with it and learn. In response, we present a framework that defines
social media by using seven functional building blocks: identity, conversations, sharing, presence, relationships, reputation, and groups. As different social media activities are defined by the extent to which they focus on some or all of these blocks,
we explain the implications that each block can have for how firms should engage with social media. To conclude, we present a number of recommendations regarding how firms should develop strategies for monitoring, understanding, and responding to different social media activities.
Assessing learning via social bookmarking using diigoThomas Ho
There are several opportunities to interact with others about this presentation:
Edmodo group at:
http://www.edmodo.com/public/assess-learning-w-social-media/group_id/629548
Google+ post at:
https://plus.google.com/b/100042967314776563438/100042967314776563438/posts/C1wMiM5cbhx
What can social media aggregation contribute to advocating for educationThomas Ho
Presented at New Learning Technologies Conference (Society for Applied Learning Technology)
Caribe Royale Hotel
Orlando, Florida
March 4-7, 2014
Social media enables us to capture students’ learning artifacts so that we can assess learning. We can also use social media to document teachers’ activity in their Personal Learning Networks for which they would be accountable to create for their professional development. These can be thought of as students’ and teachers’ LearnStreams. Motivated by our experience with lifestreaming, we can aggregate our social media streams to generate LearnStreams! Once we have these LearnStreams, we can publish them to demonstrate our students’ learning and teachers’ professional development in order to “tell our story” in a more compelling way to our constituents who we hope would then advocate for us as we build financial and political support for education.
This presentation contains the pictures and applications I spoke about at the iPhoneography talk at the Apple Store, Buchanan Street, Glasgow; on the 15th September, 2011.
What can social media aggregation contribute to advocating for education?Thomas Ho
We in education just don’t often do a very good job of telling others what a great job we’re doing, do we? We can harness social media to get that job done so learn WHY we should do it and HOW we can do it!
Tweeting the night away: Using Twitter to enhance social presencePatrick Lowenthal
To be truly effective, online learning must facilitate the social process of learning. This involves providing space and opportunities for students and faculty to engage in social activities. Although learning management systems offer several tools that support social learning and student engagement, the scope, structure, and functionality of those tools can inhibit and restrain just-in-time social connections and interactions. In this teaching tip, we describe our use of Twitter to encourage free flowing just-in-time interactions and how these interactions can enhance social presence in online courses. We then describe instructional benefits of Twitter, and conclude with guidelines for incorporating Twitter in online courses.
The purpose of this study is to discuss about utilization of Whatsapp application as discussion media in Blended Learning. This study sought to integrate learning technologies to improve the quality of student's learning. Messenger application is used to communicate synchronously, so it can be positioned as a discussion media. This study focused on Whatsapp capabilities can be utilized to conduct in online learning of Blended Learning. This study aims to describe the discussion media. This study through the literature review that outlines the stages of Blended Learning using Whatsapp application as a discussion media by using qualitative methods. The result shows that Whatsapp application utilization as a discussion media in Blended Learning sessions initiated by offline using conventional methods, so the online session focused on the discussion as indicated by dialogue and interaction among participants.
The term "collaborative learning" (CL) refers to a broad range of educational strategies including the combined intellectual efforts of teachers and pupils. Students are typically required to work in groups of two or more, looking together for understanding, answers, or meanings or producing a product. People will be able to collaborate with someone far away just as readily as they would with someone in the same room thanks to the usage of ICT in CL. E-collaboration tool enable users to contribute a variety of abilities to group projects that remove time, distance, and resource limitations. Face-to-face engagement is still important, but ICT can enhance it by enabling communication at any time and from any location. ICT functions for group work coordination, tools for tracking progress and providing feedback, libraries of solutions and best practises, as well as meta data, are all available as collaborative technologies. In order to facilitate collaborative learning in all areas of education, the following technological tools can be used: wiki, online forums, chat, video conferencing, email, blogging, learning management systems, virtual classrooms, Sticky notes, etc.
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Social Media and Education
Class Objectives
• To provide an overview of the use of social media in educational institutions
• To explore how social media is used to advance education
Introduction
The internet has opened up spaces for individuals from different parts of the world,
generations, class, gender and race to gain access to higher education. These forms
of “borderless” learning platforms allow professors to facilitate linear interactions
with students as students take charge of their learning by posing questions and
posting content virtually. The popularity of online courses is demonstrated by a
study conducted by the learningSloan Foundation study consisting of more than
2,500 colleges and universities. The study findings indicated that online enrolments
were growing substantially faster than overall higher education enrolment, and the
17% growth rate in online enrolments far exceeds the 1.2% growth rate in the
overall higher education population (Allen & Seaman, 2010, cited in LeNoue, Hall,
Eighmy, 2011, pp. 4-5). Allen and Seaman classified an online course as one in which
more than 80% of content is delivered online and reported that over 4.6 million
students were taking such courses during the fall 2008 term (p.5). Clearly, online
courses are becoming a preferred means of learning mainly because of their
convenience—students are able to navigate, full time employment, family
responsibilities and other commitments. Many online instructional settings utilize
content management systems that allow for a two way communication between
students and the professor. The forums deviate from lecture structures and
professors in the online context as seen as facilitators of knowledge encouraging
active and experiential learning and teamwork to enhance cooperation and
collaboration. Would you categorize the online classes provided by UCW as a social
media forum?
Beyond online classrooms, universities use social media mainly for marketing,
communication and alumni relations. Universities now combine the use of social
media with their own homepages as a recruitment tools (For example, last year
UCW’s homepage provided access to Facebook, Twitter and YouTube). Universities
are also using social media to reach out to their alumni. A 2012 survey by the
Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (an association of university
and college professionals in development, alumni affairs and communications)
shows that 83 percent of U.S. colleges and universities are using social media to
engage alumni, with 96 percent on Facebook, 80 percent on Twitter, 73 percent on
YouTube, and 68 percent on LinkedIn (Frank, 2013). These statistics give an
illustration of how social media are used for communication between universities
and the public.
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The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
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What Can Social Media Aggregation Contribute To Teaching & Learning
1. What can social media aggregation contribute to teaching and learning?
Thomas I. M. Ho, Ph.D.
Educator.DrThomasHo.com
Keywords: social media, curation, education advocacy
Abstract
Political, societal, and financial forces exertpressure threatening education which is sorely in
need of advocacy. Advocacy should be based upon evidence of the accountability of students
and teachers engaged in learning and in professional development. Such evidence can be
revealed by students’ and teachers’ LearnStreams which result from aggregation of their social
media content created as a natural by-product of their learning and professional development.
This paper identifies some social media aggregation tools which can be harnessed for education
advocacy.
Social media aggregation
The C4LPT Guide to Social Learning ( Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies, 2010)
is a comprehensive resource on the use of social media for teaching and learning. Most notably,
it cites the creation of user-generated content via Web services which facilitate sharing to
enable collaboration by making connections among people. Whereas content creation was once
the primary responsibility of the instructor, students are now able to document their learning by
creating content in a variety of formats.
Social learning (Hart, 2010) is the application of social media tools to learning. While previous
attention has been focused on social media such as social networking, social bookmarking, and
blogging; this paper will emphasize the role of social media aggregation via emerging social
mechanisms such as lifestreaming and Twitter hashtags.
As powerful as social media itself is, it is even more powerful when viewed through the lens of
aggregation. Because of the diversity of sources of user-generated content, it is imperative to
organize that content! In the same way that digital celebrities and tech-savvy companies “build
their brands” via their online identity, learning can leverage these tools to enable similar
innovation.
Teaching and learning
Although there are numerous learning outcomes that are desirable, we will describe how social
media engages the student during learning by enabling him to present his learning experiences in
a way which documents learning for purposes of assessment.
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2. Engagement
With respect to learning, engagement is enhanced because the aggregate stream of social media
activity encourages students to interact with each other by cooperating and by commenting on
each others’ learning and discovery.
Using these indicators of engaged learning(Jones, B., Valdez, G., Nowakowski, J., &
Rasmussen, C., 1994), we can envision how social media tools can contribute:
Vision of Engaged Learning
Students take responsibility for their own learning. Social learning enables them to do so by
making it so easy for students to generate content.
Tasks for Engaged Learning
Social learning tasks can be challenging, authentic, and integrative because they enable
interaction with collaborators outside of the classroom.
Assessment of Engaged Learning
Social learning facilitates assessment because it generates artifacts which document learning
beyond traditional mechanisms.
Instructional Models & Strategies for Engaged Learning
Social media enables students tobuild a repertoire of effective strategies for learning in diverse
social contexts.
Learning Context of Engaged Learning
By its very nature, social learning encourages cooperation and collaboration rather than
competition and fragmentation among students.
Grouping for Engaged Learning
Social media mechanisms enable flexible groups to be configured and reconfigured according to
the purposes of instruction. This flexibility enables educators to make frequent use of
heterogeneous groups and to form groups, usually for short periods of time, based on common
interests or needs.
Teacher Roles for Engaged Learning
As a role model in the use of social media, the teacher serves as facilitator, guide, and co-learner
rather than as a mere “teacher” or instructor.
Student Roles for Engaged Learning
In addition to being an explorer and cognitive apprentice, students areproducers of
knowledge. Using social media tools, students generate products for themselves and their
community that synthesize and integrate knowledge and skills. Through the use of technology,
students increasingly are even able to make significant contributions to the world's knowledge.
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3. Presentation (delivery)
Clearly, social media mechanisms such as Slideshare, WordPress, Google Docs, YouTube,
Google Reader, Delicious, and even Twitter are ideally suited for delivering content because
these are common tools for everyday use.To present both instructor (and especially student)generated content, we promote social media aggregation to organize this wealth of mechanisms
for generating content.
Assessment (archiving)
Consequently, assessment is enhanced because the aggregate stream of social media activity
produces an artifact that exhibits what and how students are learning and discovering.
Tools
Social media
To generate content, numerous social media alternatives are available. Clearly, social media is a
high-performance technology for promoting active learning(Jones, B., Valdez, G., Nowakowski,
J., & Rasmussen, C., 1994), but often these tools are either utilized inappropriately or underutilized for promoting learning.
Blogging
Blogging has long been used as a means for students to express themselves in order to
demonstrate what they have learned or to reflect on their learning. It has been more common to
use blogging, but the availability and ascent of microblogging has encouraged this alternative,
even in learning.
Twitter
The Twitter microblogging service has been greatly misunderstood and especially in teaching
and learning, it has been subject to both scorn as well as praise.(Ingram, 2014)
How to not use Twitter
The use of Twitter in a classroom setting had been dubious because it can be easily used poorly
especially in not creating very useful artifacts which document learning(Young, 2009)
Why use Twitter:
A much more robust use of Twitter as a personal learning network (Webb, 2009) reveals why
students should be encouraged to venture beyond their strong preference for
Facebook.(Martinez, 2008)They would quickly realize that Facebook is not sufficient on its own
and because it lacks an ecosystem of third-party applications that is not as rich as that which
enriches Twitter. What Twitter lacks in “numbers” (due to its smaller user base), it easily makes
upwith third-party applications which enrich the user experience far beyond mere Facebook
status updates.(Berlin, 2009)
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4. Nevertheless, Twitter does have its shortcomings. (Richardson, 2008)In particular, Twitter is
particularly problematic because it generates a stream of disjointed tweets. This is why
aggregation is desirable and we will subsequently demonstrate Twitter aggregation mechanisms.
Blogs & comments
Although microblogging is easier, blogging (and commenting) create more useful artifacts for
assessment by enabling students to express themselves more fully and to reflect on their learning.
However, many (if not most!) students are reluctant to blog so commenting on one another’s as
well as other blogs represents reasonable “middle ground” between blogging and microblogging
for creating artifacts.
Social bookmarking
Social bookmarking also represents a less demanding way for students to document their
learning although they may be reluctant to blog. In order to mitigate that, the Diigo social
bookmarking service is especially useful because it enables either instructor (or student) to “add
value” via annotation of content on bookmarked Web pages.
Aggregation
Whether generated by blogging, bookmarking or other social media services, the resulting flood
of user-generated content demands organization! Fortunately, social media also offers organizing
mechanisms as robust as the content-generating services. For Twitter, two primary aggregation
mechanisms exist. Twitter hashtags index tweets and make it much easier to either search or to
view tweets in context. Hashtags offer ease of use (Parr, 2009) compared to the complexity of
the FriendFeed social media aggregation service which is a much more robust alternative.
Twitter hashtags
As a simpler and less capable alternative, Twitter hashtags have many shortcomingsthat are
plagued by inconsistent usage as well as inadequate mechanisms for viewing tweets. As part of
the rich Twitter ecosystem, the Twubs service (Van Grove, 2009) (Gutmacher, 2009) mitigates
some of these shortcomings.
FriendFeed
On the other hand, the FriendFeed service (Taylor, 2009) offers aggregation that is very
powerful, but is so complex that even this social media-savvy author had difficultytrying to
figure it out! FriendFeed can be used in conjunction with Twitter (and virtually any other social
media service) and it can even be used for microblogging instead of Twitter. Since the
acquisition of FriendFeed by Facebook, this author had considerably reduced his reliance on
FriendFeed until the implications of this acquisition become clearer. Unfortunately, Facebook
has allowed FriendFeed to languish so it is no longer a viable candidate for social media
aggregation.
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5. RebelMouse
Fortunately, alternatives for social media aggregation such as RebelMouse have emerged.
RebelMouse (Berry, 2013) has recognized how educators are using it.
Presentation
To present user-generated content in an organized way, this author had found the Netvibes
service to be especially flexible and easy to use. Examples of social media aggregation for
courses taught by the author can be found at http://LrnStrm.com which was also recognized as
the first college course on lifestreaming by one of the leading bloggers (Krynsky, 2009) on the
aggregation of social media content.
More recently, curation tools such as Storify have emerged. Educators have recognized its value
for social media aggregation. (Hariri, 2013)
Conclusion
Although there have been teaching and learning experiments with social networking, they have
rarely taken advantage of the full power of social media. Social media can easily overwhelm its
participants with a stream of activity that is both voluminous and disjointed. This is especially
true of the microblogging service Twitter which has grown considerably, but is largely
misunderstood especially for what it can do for teaching and learning.
This paper has described the role that aggregation of social media can contribute to teaching and
to learning. With respect to teaching, assessment is enhanced because the aggregate stream of
social media activity produces an artifact that exhibits what and how students are learning and
discovering. With respect to learning, engagement is enhanced because the aggregate stream of
social media activity encourages students to interact with each other by cooperating and by
commenting on others’ learning and discovery.
Especially promising is the prospect for the course (and subsequent learning) to “continue” even
after the semester ends and even for assessment data to be collected longitudinally.
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About the Author
THOMAS I. M. HO, Ph.D.
DrThomasHo.com
+1 317 288-1790
When he retired from academia, Dr. Ho was Professor of Computer and Information
Technology at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). Previously, he was a
Senior Fellow inInformation Systems and Computer Science at the National University of
Singapore from 1993-1994. From 1990-1992, he was Director of the Information Networking
Institute atCarnegie Mellon University. From 1978 to 1988, he was Head of the Department of
Computer and Information Technology atPurdue University which was recognized by the Data
Processing Management Association for its Four-year Institution Award for undergraduate
computer information systems programs. From 1986-1988, he was on loan from Purdue to serve
as Executive Director of the INTELENET Commission which pioneered the INdiana
TELEcommunications NETwork. He received his BS, MS, and Ph.D. degrees in computer
science from Purdue University.
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