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"If students are not using laptops to take notes..it is because faculty are not fully engaging them. I think we can and should leverage our students' existing technology skills!"

- GradStudent on insidehighered.com

Smart use of social media tools matches what we know about how people learn

final thoughts...

Give students clear guidelines

Geek out on your own first

If you want your students to tweet you well, then you need to tweet them well

FACING FACEBOOK:

Social Media In and Out of the Classroom

Stephanie Chasteen

CU-Boulder Physics Department

Science Education Initiative

blog.sciencegeekgirl.com theactiveclass.com @sciencegeekgirl

Luc Legay, Flickr

All links @ http://bit.ly/9GJJrI

Students' use of social media

What we want them to learn

How do we manage digital distraction?

ban laptops?

"[The time I want students to pay attention] begins the moment I walk into the classroom and ends the moment I leave it. "Lids Down" down time is therefore all the time."

- Taylor Stoermer on insidehighered.com

Lids down time?

How people learn...

Learning is social

Metacognition is important

Interactive engagement

improves learning

you do have that power...

Motivation & relevance

important

But which tools?

But that's not a service to the students

Jeff Werner, Flickr

They...

  • Pick classes on ratemyprofessor.com
  • Get to know classmates through facebook
  • Share videos on YouTube
  • Share photos on flickr

They use it a LOT

Social contract?

What we get is digital distraction...

  • Wiki-based contract.
  • Teach responsible use.
  • Student buy-in.

(Diane Sieber, CU)

  • Teens spend about as much time on social networking and websites as they do watching TV

  • 73% of teens & young adults use social networks (Pew)

  • 80% of young adults on Facebook

  • Average user spends more time on Facebook than Google, Yahoo, YouTube, and Wikipedia combined (Neilsen)

metacognition!

Physics Dept., University of Colorado

Boulder

blogging -> microblogging

I prefer multitasking...

twitter? not so much

A student's opinion: "At worst, I play a game of solitaire (something to do with my hands while listening...tantamount to doodling, which actually increases my attention span" ("me" on insidehighered.com)

Opportunity for social learning???

really?

What do you want to do in your class?

In-class backchannel

Student/student collaboration

Like Twitter in conference

who's tweeting right now?

learning is social

reduce cognitive load

photo: Stanford EdTech

on Flickr

Virtual class space

Student-teacher communication

online class hub / home

examples

Your own professional learning

“I would much rather be texting a student usefully at 9:30 on a Saturday than playing catch-up in a purposeless office visit.”

- instructor

http://digitalstorytelling.umwblogs.org/syllabus/

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