SNSs & HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATION…

3,463,753,955 HEADS ARE BETTER THAN 1

SNS users worldwide in APRIL 2011 (excluding dating sites)

Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_sites

Is this really

working?Danger: Raven' http://www.flickr.com/photos68089733

@N00/7821088

SOCIAL NETWORK SITEs (SNSs):

What seems to be the problem?…concerns regarding the use of SNSs at

school.

Every Tweet posted on Twitter since March 2006 is now archived with the Library of Congress (Raymond 2010 in Veltsos & Veltsos 2010 p. 465)

Laptop Compubody Sock http://www.flickr.com/photos/23243094@N00/2414194397

The reasons we give toPREVENT the use of

SNSs in schools are

exactly the reasons we

shouldINTRODUCE the use of

SNSs in schools!

'The Truth' http://www.flickr.com/photos/35237098986@N01/2086934736

Teaching & Using SNSs in High School

Give them the

scaffolding to safely

reach their destination

Our new role as educators is to ‘create engaged learners, not simply knowers…’ (O’Connell & Groom 2010, p. 49)

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What IMPACT do SNSs have on Educational Practices?

“Unless education itself moves then the young people we teach will begin to think education is an irrelevance in their lives…” Lord Puttnam (IIEA1, 2010)

‘p-71-t-034’http://www.flickr.com/photos/40328982@N02/5510560066

What IMPACT do SNSs have on Educational Practices?

This is not something that can be achieved alone…

‘superman is dead' http://www.flickr.com/photos/84547986@N00/279883605

The not

so distant future

….

‘Good Morning' http://www.flickr.com/photos/41864721@N00/4080112748

There’s no point in shutting the gate…

‘Running Wild 5' http://www.flickr.com/photos/91799035@N00/3479745234

Some further considerations…

De Haan, J., & Livingstone, S. (2009). EU Kids Online: Policy and research recommendations. European Research on Cultural, Contextual and Risk Issues in Children’s Safe Use of the Internet and New Media (2006-2009). Available from http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/24387/1/D5_Report-Policy_and_Research_Recommendations.pdf

Ryberg, T., & Christiansen, E. (2008). Community and Social Network Sites as Technology Enhanced Learning Environments. Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 17(3), 207-219. Retrieved from EBSCOhost.

O'Neill, B. and I. Hagen (2009) Media literacy. Kids online: Opportunities and risks for children. Sonia Livingstone and L. Haddon (eds.). Bristol, Policy Press: 229-239. Retrieved from: http://arrow.dit.ie/aaschmedbk/5/

Further reading on the issue…