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Making the Classroom

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Conceptualizing and Integrating Social Media into the Secondary School Humanities Classroom Nate Kogan

Fort Worth Country Day

Challenges of the Traditional Classroom

Reorientation via Social Media

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• Discourages plagiarism through transparency  Reduce emphasis on summative product.

 Obsession with the “right” answer

• Less focus on “right” answer and grades

 Teacher responsible for managing and tracking all student work (paper-shuffling)

• Shift focus to comments and students’ intellectual growth.

• Venue for Student Writing/Digital Portfolio • Allows incorporation and embedding of multiple media (video, audio, graphs)

• Ease of comments — from teacher and peers

• Teacher models constructive criticism and act as lead-learner  Students seek all validation from teacher; lack confidence in own thought.

Applications in Classroom

• Allows hyperlinking and inter-textual connections ➡ Emphasizes citing sources.

 Insight and access into formative learning ➡ see students’ thinking process • Students can see each other’s learning process and constantly give feedback

11 September 2009

Diigo

• Central repository of student work • Track student assignments & eliminate paper • Create transparency for students to see: • each other’s ideas • each other’s and teacher’s comments • Ease of tracking research and notes • Annotate web pages • Transparent research • Students linked to each other’s sources • Students linked to each other’s annotations

 Propensity for didactic lecturing ➡ reinforces “Sage on the Stage” notions.

Twitter and Apps

Isolation of student work

• Backchannel for class discussions • Review tool for quizzes and tests • Collaborative resource collection • Utility to enhance class interconnectedness • Student-to-Student feedback • Student communication with teacher

Edmodo  Students focus on summative product over formative process • Generally cram for tests; prioritize knowledge of meaning-creation • Focus on grade, not on comments  Ineffective (and infrequent) peer-editing • Prioritize social capital above constructive criticism

• Facebook-like interface

Classroom Interconnectedness  Create accessibility and visibility for: • Students and teacher beyond the classroom and the school day. • Other classes and educators across the country or the world • Parents ➡ share student work digitally

• Well-designed course management webpage • Easy file-sharing and assignment posting • Calendar and grading functionality

Collaborative Writing

• Provides insight into formative process • For both teachers and students • Ability to track individual contributions • Ability to track changes and previous versions • Eliminates email attachment clutter