The consensus was that social media should be modeled and utilized properly in the classroom. But to overcome success, teachers and administrators have to find a way around to work with the so spread filtering in schools
@tonnet tries to participate every Tuesday and he did so tonight. Here are some of the posts that he found interesting:
- In the classroom, Social Media can be used to bring experts, peers, etc into the classroom from anywhere in the world. @Digin4ed
I agree with this completely - @tomwhitby: The perception mst people have of Twitter is that its a joke. @LeesaWatego
A good number of colleagues see Twitter for chat only. They often are surprised by a good idea... Which I get from Twitter. @CotterHUE
Social Media allows students to move away from only searching Google for answers/info and moving toward searching others for answers/info. @eduinnovation
And there were pretty thoughtful questions like this one:
- If a librarian in 1970 had ripped "objectionable" pages out of the New York Times would that have been "filtering"? @irasocol
If you want to receive my future posts regularly for FREE, please subscribe in a reader or by e-mail. Follow me on Twitter. For other concerns, Contact Me at anytime.
1 Comments
an interesting thought... that last comment is pretty funny, but possibly for the wrong reasons. A comment I didn't see up there is that it should be used in a pedagogically sound manner, that is, we shouldn't be using social media because it's there, we should be using it because it brings a learning benefit to the program.
ReplyDelete