Social Media - Illinois Tech for Teachers · 2019-03-14 · Instagram, Snapchat, and Twitter. According to a 2015 Pew Research Center study, it was found that 90 percent of young

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Social Media– Inside and Outside of the Classroom

Lisa WardContent Specialist for Learning Supports

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Objectives• Participants will be able to understand the impact of social media

• Participants will be able to understand the uses of social media

• Participants will discover ways to incorporate social media into classrooms, schools and family connections

• Participants will be able to create a “safe space” online for students to learn and develop their digital citizenship skills.


The main social media platforms that students utilize are Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and Twitter.

According to a 2015 Pew Research Center study, it was found that 90 percent of young adults use these social media sites.

In the same study, it was found that there was a 78 percent increase in young adult social media usage from 2005.

An article published by Fortune in January 2016 reported that Snapchat users view more than 7 billion videos through the photo and video sharing app daily.


Allows students to communicate and interact with each other.

They can make plans, discuss homework, send class notes.

Platforms such as Twitter, Instagram and Facebook allow students to

voice their opinion on anything that is going around the world.

Students have their own accounts and can do what they want with it.

They can post their views whenever and however they want to.

Students can stay up to date with current news and events that are

occurring around the world.


RISKS OF YOUTH USING SOCIAL MEDIA

Using social media becomes a risk to adolescents more often than most adults realize.

Most risks fall into the following categories: • peer-to-peer• inappropriate content• lack of understanding of online privacy issues • outside influences of third-party advertising groups.


Negative impacts of social media on students

“Social media can interfere with learning if students believe multitasking is possible. Research suggests that people actually are just switching between tasks rather than do several things at the time. Thus, learning is more effective when we just focus on the task of learning and avoid the temptation of distractions.” Jeff Platt, NIACC psychology instructor

Every picture, post, tweet and snap that is published online becomes public and can be viewed by everyone. This can harm a student’s reputation as individuals who personally do not know the student can make judgements based on the image they portray over social media. Future employers also have access to these posts which can influence their decision on who to hire and not hire.


What is Social Media?Social media are web-based communication tools that enable people to interact with each other by both sharing and consuming information.


What Happens on Social Media

10 Most popular POSTING habits of 2017-2018


http://avatarmaker.com/

http://doppelme.com/

Creating AVATARS can make great student connections to any project or product….. just copy and paste into any platform.

http://avatarmaker.com/

http://doppelme.com/


Research Project with Facebook

8th grade activity with students studying WWII

Franklin D. Roosevelthttp://rumkin.com/tools/

https://www.braingle.com/brainteasers/codes/index.php

Click the book to download

http://lisawardtech.weebly.com/uploads/2/3/3/7/23374746/cypherbook.pdf

http://rumkin.com/tools/

https://www.braingle.com/brainteasers/codes/index.php


Once they decoded and discovered who their person was they needed to look them up for details that

would fit a “profile” on Facebook.

Google Slides Version 1 Google Slides Version 2 Word Document download

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1RWYXC8hG-0E5GF5pktspWrWzdYbv4zb5Ps_oJYqvsSE/copy

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/16tzlEV2gKPxbH7fytVbhQIohcIx_hPinI0OS5cl51gg/copy

http://lisawardtech.weebly.com/uploads/2/3/3/7/23374746/farcebook_template2.doc


Facebook Options for Classrooms

Pages are public for everyone to see, like, and comment on. There is the capability to block specific Facebook users if there are issues, but in general it is a very open platform. You create the page through your personal account, but that doesn’t mean followers of your page can see your personal posts.

Groups can be made private or public. You can even make them secret so that you can target invitations just to the parents in your classroom. You should not send personal friend requests when setting up groups. There is a way to invite them to your page with a link by copying it into an e-mail.


Facebook Options for Classrooms


https://youtu.be/C-Ne_-nfw3c

Step by step video to setup a Secret Classroom Group

How Can You Use a Facebook Group?

Connect with families

Sports Teams –schedules, pictures,

events

Classroom connections

Professional Development Extensions

https://youtu.be/C-Ne_-nfw3c


Facebook Group

IL Classrooms Tech Network


Historic Events with Twitter


Twitter for the Classroom

Twiducate is a social media platform for schools and classrooms that educators can control who has access to see and post information. Only teachers and students may view classroom posts, thus creating a private network for users and a safer online learning environment. This is a way to help students understand how to practice safe digital citizenship.



What Else Can Twitter Do?

Book Studies….for educators, parents and studentsUse the actual TWITTER platform in either a “short” study or “long” study format

The process is simple…..

Each moderator (1 or more dividing the chapters up) pushes out a Question that includes Q1 (or current number) and the “group hashtag”.

Group hashtags are essential since that is what connects all of the Questions and Answers so everyone can see everyone else. Choose something easy to remember and not in use.

When participants see the Question posted on their twitter account they answer with the A1 (or current number) and include the hashtag.


Example of ISTE’s EdTech Coaches last study…..


How Can Anyone Keep Up With All The TWEETS????

Two of my favorite ways are---

Google Sheets Add-ON

See all the Tweets that match a specific #

Schedule your Tweets

Use more than one account

Collect all the Tweets for a specific # in one Google Sheet

The add-on will automatically create a new sheet when it reaches 500 Tweets

Can send each line to a Google Doc with another Add-on

https://tweetdeck.twitter.com/ https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/twitter-curator/bfibcmjdlcklcgcifiaclckmnklmndmp?utm_source=permalink

https://tweetdeck.twitter.com/

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/twitter-curator/bfibcmjdlcklcgcifiaclckmnklmndmp?utm_source=permalink


Twitter PD with Twitter Chats!




How could you use a Twitter Chat?


Free account allows users to connect to 3 different social media accounts.

Users can schedule posts to go out at another time

All platforms that are listed will post to their individual feeds at the scheduled time or when the post is created.

If using Instagram all posts through Hootsuite must include a photo or graphic.

https://hootsuite.com/

https://hootsuite.com/


What About Younger Grades???

Seesaw


https://help.seesaw.me/hc/en-us/articles/204910545-What-apps-are-compatible-with-Seesaw-

https://help.seesaw.me/hc/en-us/articles/204910545-What-apps-are-compatible-with-Seesaw-


Tools and Resources forELA

MATHScience

Social ScienceSocial Emotional Learning

TechnologyFine Arts

http://www.ilclassroomsinaction.org/

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Social Media - Illinois Tech for Teachers · 2019-03-14 · Instagram, Snapchat, and Twitter. According to a 2015 Pew Research Center study, it was found that 90 percent of young