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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: [email protected]
Facebook Page: West De Pere School District Libraries
Twitter: wdplibraries
