Creating Student-Centered Mobile Learning Networks Using Facebook, Twitter, and Cell Phones

Creating Student-Centered Mobile Learning Networks

Using Facebook, Twitter, and Cell Phones

NCTE Position Statement: 21st Century Literacies

Develop proficiency with tools of technology

Pose and solve problems collaboratively and cross-culturally

Manage, analyze, and synthesize multiple streams of simultaneous information

Create, critique, analyze, and evaluate multi-media text

Today’s Students and Technology

“To them (today’s students), the smartphone, the Internet, and

everything technological are not "tools" at all—they simply are.

Just as we don't think about the existence of air, they don't

question the existence of technology and media. They expect

technology to be there, and they expect it to do whatever they

want it to do. Their WWW doesn't stand for World Wide Web; it

stands for Whatever, Whenever, Wherever.”

Educational Leadership – February 2011“Teaching the iGeneration” Larry D. Rosen

The Technology Gap“…the development of 21st Century literacies occurs

most frequently outside of school environments, rather than in school” (Writing Between the Lines…2; Cuban, 2001; Madden, Ford, Miller and Levy, 2005; Leu et al; Hansford and Adlington, 2009; Project Tomorrow, 2009).

http://www.jasonchan.com/strategy/2009/03/28/bridging-the-gap/

Reading and Writing has Fundamentally Changed

“…the rise in social networking requires new literacies and have become important contexts for literacy, learning, and life” (Leu et al 37).

http://blogjunkie.edublogs.org/

Why Facebook and Twitter?

VS.

How can we teach students to use

these tools purposefully and

effectively?

Integrated Uses / Activities

Communication

Student and Parent Communication

Club Management

Collaboration

Collaborative Multimedia Projects

Discussions

Content Management Systems

Content Management System

Using Facebook in School

Dual Identity ConceptProfessional AccountPseudonymSymbolic PictureLimited to school activities

Using Social Media for Communication

Facebook Inbox:

Answer Student Questions

Facebook Profile:Homework Updates

Twitter Integration:Homework Updates

Cell Phone Integration:Homework Updates

Receive Homework Updates on your Phone!  

1. Send the following text message: “On mrslowinski” to

40404

2. You will receive a text message back from Twitter.

3. Reply with “signup”

4. You will receive another text message back from

Twitter asking for an existing account or for you to

create a username.

5. Reply with a username that you’ll create for yourself.

Now you will receive homework updates via text

message!

Facebook Pages/Groups: Parent Communication

Cell Phone Integration:Text Updates

Facebook Pages:Club Management

Club Management

Twitter Integration:Club Management

http://www.facebook.com/twitter/

Using Social Media for Collaboration

Collaborative Multimedia Projects

Discussions

Writing Collaboration: Peer Review

Multimedia Projects

Practice new ways to demonstrate knowledge of concepts

Students enjoy working with multimedia

Authentic publication increases motivation

Students from other classes are interested

Online Literature Circles

Uses Facebook’s “Groups” or “Pages” Feature

Allows small groups of students a secure place to discuss novels

Weekly requirements

Work on connecting to texts, asking questions, using multimedia

Collaborative discussions

Using Social Media as a Content Management

System

Content Management System

The Facebook Classroom

Incorporates Groups, Notes, Inbox, Wall, and Pages

Students access online assignments and readings

Weekly due dates and checkpoints

Students post all of their work into the class group

Students receive feedback and grades via Inbox

Other Uses for Cell Phones

Other Uses for Cell Phones

PollEverywhere.com

• Exit Tickets• Anticipatory Set• Classroom

Survey

Other Uses for Cell Phones

Text your inquiry to 242242

Other Uses for Twitter

Other Uses for Twitter:Student Accounts

Use the hash tags for:Summarization activitiesFeedback on presentationsBrainstorming activitiesQuestions during lectures

Other Uses for Twitter

Embed Twitter Feed into Website

• Helps to gain followers• Communicate with non-

Twitter users

• Available at: http://twitter.com/about/resources/widgets/widget_profile

BenefitsDifferentiation

Increased student motivation

21st Century literacy instruction

Collaboration

24/7 classroom

Contact Information

Mike SlowinskiLibrary Media Coordinator

West De Pere School District

Phone: (920) 338-5200 Ext. 1333

Email: mslowinski@wdpsd.com

Facebook Page: West De Pere School District Libraries

Twitter: wdplibraries