Social Media: do you…should you… how can you?

Cathy Clarkson

• Discuss how you currently use social media (personally, professionally and with students)

• Evaluate current research into the use of social media with students

• Review the uses of Yammer, Twitter & Facebook within a department

Social Media: do you… should you… how can you?

1. smart phone2. Tablet3. laptop4. Two out of three5. All three6. none of the above

Social Media: do you… should you… how can you?

Personal Use

Professional Use

CPD With students

In class Out of class

Social Media: do you… should you… how can you?

“Technologists with visions of

utopia” Means 2015

“so resistant to technology they miss out

on significant opportunities to broaden

and deepen their impact” Means 2015

two extremes

Social Media: do you… should you… how can you?

After a decade designing technologies meant to address education, health, and global poverty, award-winning computer

scientist Kentaro Toyama came to a difficult conclusion:

Even in an age of amazing technology, social progress

depends on human changes that gadgets can’t deliver.There is no

silver bullet

There is no ‘do this for

guaranteed success’

Social Media: do you… should you… how can you?

“if you provide an all-purpose technology that can be used for learning and entertainment, children choose entertainment. Technology by itself doesn’t undo that inclination—it amplifies it.” (Toyama 2015)

“I call it technology’s “Law of Amplification”: Technology’s primary effect is to amplify human forces, so in education, technologies amplify whatever pedagogical capacity is already there.” (Toyama 2015)

OECD

Social Media: do you… should you… how can you?

Executive summary:

…we concluded that the use of digital technology in education is not optional. Competence with digital technology to find information, to create, to critique and share knowledge, is an essential contemporary skill set. It belongs at the heart of education.

ETAG

Social Media: do you… should you… how can you?

Social Media: do you… should you… how can you?

Professional Standards• 15. Promote the benefits of technology and support learners

in its use• 13. Motivate and inspire learners to promote achievement

and develop their skills to enable progression • 10. Evaluate your practice with others and assess its impact

on learning

http://www.et-foundation.co.uk/our-priorities/professional-standards/professional-standards-2014/

Organisation’s Vision For Learning Strategy:2.1 Develop excellent and innovative teaching and learning to improve student experience and success2.2 Identify teaching and learning needs at individual and college level and provide a wide range of CPD activities to meet needs2.6 Continue to embed e-learning within the curriculum so that it is blended into all curriculum areas and all courses

Collegestrategic

plan

Social Media: do you… should you… how can you?

Social Media: do you… should you… how can you?

Social Media: do you… should you… how can you?

Social Media: do you… should you…

how can you?

Facebook page

Twitter feed

Yammer VLE

Review the session resources on the VLEDiscuss in your curriculum teams if/how you can encourage the use of social mediaTalk to your students about how they feel about using social media to support their studies. Reflect on own use of social media to support your CPD activity

Next steps….