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The Impact of Social Media
In The Classroom
Britt Watwood, Ed.D.
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Changing Landscape of Learning
ACTIVITY
Platform of Participation
Publish Media
CommunicationTools
ResourceSharing
SocialNetworking
CollectiveKnowledge
Thoughts ?
O’Reilly, T. (2007). What is Web 2.0Nugent, J. (2012). The Changing Landscape of Learning
Campbell, G., 2009. A Personal Cyberinfrastructure, Educause Review.Gerlitz and Helmond, 2013. The like economy: Social buttons and the data-intensive web
Web Timeline
1995 2000 2005 2010 2015
Wesch, M. (2009). From Knowledgeable to Knowledge-able:
Learning in New Media EnvironmentsThe Academic Commons
“This is a social revolution, not a
technological one, and its most revolutionary
aspect may be in the ways in which it
empowers us to rethink education
and the teacher-student relationship
in an almost limitless variety of ways.”
Wesch, M. (2009). From Knowledgeable to
Knowledge-able: Learning in New Media Environments
The Academic Commons
“This is a social revolution, not a
technological one, and its most revolutionary
aspect may be in the ways in which it
empowers us to rethink education
and the teacher-student relationship
in an almost limitless variety of ways.”
Decision Process for Using Social Media in Classes ?
Bower, M. (2015) A Typology of Web 2.0 Learning Technologies, Educause.
Principles from Learning Science
How Learning Works:7 Research-Based PrinciplesFor Smart Teaching (2010)Ambrose, Bridges, DiPietro,
Lovett, and Norman
Students’ prior knowledge can help or hinder learning.
AC
TIV
ITY How might Social Media be
used to effectively surface prior
knowledge?
Twitter inVisual Poetry Class
Expert/Novice Differences
HAVE
TEND TOBUILD
Organization of Knowledge
Experts/Instructors
Rich, meaningful knowledge structures
Sparse, superficial knowledge structures
SUPPORT
Novices/Students
How students organize knowledge influenceshow they learn and apply what they know.
(Ambrose, Bridges, DiPietro, Lovett, & Norman, 2010)
Learning&
Performance
AC
TIV
ITY How might Social Media be
used to help students
organize knowledge?
Concept Map As First Draft
Goal-directed practice coupled with targeted feedback enhances
the quality of students’ learning
(Ambrose, Bridges, DiPietro, Lovett, & Norman, 2010)
(Sprague & Stuart 2000)
As mastery develops and students gradually gain
competence within a domain, they first gain and then lose
conscious awareness of the skills and capabilities they are
exercising.
AC
TIV
ITY How might Social Media
enhance practice,
feedback, and mastery of
subject matter?
Writing AssignmentIn Statistics Class
UT Twitter Experiment
AC
TIV
ITY
In small groups, develop
one activity to leverage
social media in your class?
Share…
Next Steps ?
Contact and References
Britt Watwood• Center for Advancing Teaching and Learning Through Research (SL215)
• On Twitter @bwatwood
• http://bwatwood.edublogs.org
References
Ambrose, S.A., Bridges, M.W., DiPietro, M., Lowett, M.C., and Norman, M.K. (2010). How Learning Works.
Campbell, G. (2009). A Personal Cyberinfrastructure, Educause Review.
Garcia, A. (ed.) (2014). Teaching in the Connected Learning Classroom.
Gerlitz and Helmond (2013). The Like Economy: Social Buttons and the Data-Intensive Web
Nugent, J. (2012). The Changing Landscape of Learning, Online Learning Path, CTE, VCU.
O’Reilly, T. (2007). What is Web 2.0.
Rankin, M. (2009) UT Twitter Experiment, http://youtu.be/6WPVWDkF7U8
Safko, L. (2012). The Social Media Bible (3rd Edition).
Sprague and Stuart (2000). The Speaker’s Handbook.
Wesch, M. (2009). From Knowledgeable to Knowledge-able: Learning in New Media Environments, The Academic Commons
