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Social media as a learning tool . Ann S. Michaelsen Teacher and administrator Sandvika vgs http://annmic.wordpress.com/ @ annmic. Using social media to connect students to educators and experts worldwide. Skjermutklipp tatt: 19.09.2012 19:18.
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Social media as a learning tool Ann S. Michaelsen Teacher and administrator Sandvika vgs http://annmic.wordpress.com/ @annmic Using social media to connect students to educators and experts worldwide
Using social media to connect educators, students and experts worldwide • Participants will be shown how to use social media like Skype, YouTube, blogs and Twitter to get in contact with students and teachers from other parts of the world. Students communicate and learn from peers in the outside world using social media and teachers introduce new material to the students on personal blogs using authentic material like videos from YouTubeand TED. Curriculumgoals are the basis for learning, not textbooks, and students find how different topics can be used to cover the curriculum goals. Questions and challenges are set by the students with help from teachers. Students offer feedback to fellow students. The goal is self-paceddifferentiated learning where every student can progress individually and the teacher can keep track of this. We explore how it is possible to use digital age learning in an authentic real-world practice, modeling real-world problems.
My school – my class • 1:1 school • Block scheduling – one subject/class all day from 8:30 – 13:15 • Teaching without textbooks • Building a PLN with social media: Twitter, Blogging, Skype, Facebook, YouTube, • Using the Internet during exams
learning in an authentic real-world practice, modeling real-world problems • Norway meets Lesotho YouTube
Helping teachers and students to be digitally included • Social media a great way to connect! • 2009 Microsoft’s Worldwide Innovative Education Forum in Brazil. • MoliehiSekese won the Worldwide Innovative Teacher Awards, category educators choice; Best Practice: MoliehiSekese (Lesotho), “Indigenous Plants”. • Moliehidid a keynote at our education conference this year • Projects where students in Western countries help raise money to buy computers and set up wireless Internet in schools without technology • 2012 a day’s work to help students at Mamoeketsiprimary school40.000 dollars. high school scholarships, material, exchange visits + new school building. • Communication for students to learn and collaborate. Skype
Global classroom Twitter
Why Twitter? • Great way to connect – quick and in real-time • Great way to find information • Quickly updated • Search and find almost everything. Something happening search and find out what people are talking about. • Build a network • Easy to use, what you put in is what you get out of it.
Using twitter and blogs • Twitter Resources, Apps, and Tools • Twitter is possibly one of the most powerful social media tools available to educators. Get started today with these resources. Advanced users might find something here to enhance their Twitter experience. • http://pinterest.com/esheninger/twitter-resources-apps-and-tools/
communicate RSS – Feeds to keep updated
Skjermutklipp tatt: 07.01.2013 13:16 Curriculumgoals
I defiantly agree that--while the organization of the story was a little cluttered--is was quite a remarkable account of the experiences of the grandfather in WWII. What a story! It seems great that people are recording oral recounts of experiences in WWII such as these and that agencies like the BBC publish it. One aspect that I thought was particularly pertinent was how the story referenced the celebration of Christmas; this nearly overlaps with the point of year in which we read it. This certainly provides a powerful insight into how terrible the living conditions were for the grandfather in that getting to eat cat food made it "the best Christmas ever" comparatively. Lastly, one thing I thought was interesting was how when he arrived at Auschwitz, the grandfather claimed he was a silversmith to make it seems as though he had skills to provide for the German. Coming full-circle, by the time that the Americans had arrived the grandfather had developed the very useful skill of knowing five languages, so cool!
Skjermutklipp tatt: 07.01.2013 13:26 Questions challenges
