tear down this firewall: using social media to engage students & parents
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Mercer Hall & Patricia RussacBuckley Country Day School
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Tear Down This Firewall:
Using Social Media To Engage Students & Parents
NYSCATE 2015
Monday, November 23, 2015
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The contemporary world is flooded with social interfaces
Sources: http://www.adweek.com/socialtimes/files/2013/01/social-world.png http://www.digithun.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/the-world-of-social-media-2011-to-2012-1.jpg http://dcustom.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/d-custom-friday-five-visual-world.jpg
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Conversation:
Do you use social media
with students?
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Media interactions are relevant & constantly changing
Source: http://www.fredcavazza.net/files/2015/05/Social-media-landscape-2015.png
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Social media & devices: A “Them vs. Us” mentality?• Make
• Share• Respond
Source: http://blog.iavm.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/social-media.jpg
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Language and communication have returned to symbolic texts and now to even more writing
Shakespeare, The Bible
Sumer, Cuneiform iPhones, Emoji
600 B.C. 2015 A.D. ? A.D.
Shared writing
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The Social Age is where agility counts:
Source: Julian Stodd; https://julianstodd.wordpress.com/2013/05/21/learning-and-working-in-the-socialage-starting-the-journey/
The ability to create meaning & take transformative action - Julian Stodd
“…this is a time to examine hereditary notions of authority and power, brand and identify and reconsider where we stand.”
Source: Julian Stodd, Learning And Working In The #SocialAge
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What are the “real” lives of our students?
Sources: Alice Keeler; Sylvia Duckworth
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Are schools blocking out the real world?
Source: http://www.edweek.org/dd/articles/2012/06/13/03bits_privacy.h05.html; http://www.screenagr.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/firewall.png
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“Are School Internet Filters the Forgotten Equity Battleground?”
Are school firewalls based on myths? Do they deny access & increase
inequality?Source: Katrina Schwartz: http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2015/09/30/are-school-internet-filters-the-forgotten-equity-battleground/
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1995 vs. 2015: Technology as input + output
Source: ClassicPics
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The more “school life” feels less like “real life,” the more students will view school as irrelevant and disconnected from their daily lives and their futuresSource: Alan November
Do kids view us as relevant?
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Learning is not hereditary
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Do we honestly believe that social media is not – and should not be – a part of students’ lives?
Source: @theASIDEblog
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How do we as adults want to learn?
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The “middle man” has disappeared
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Are we still in a “Web 2.0” mentality?
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“Ownership” is out
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Thinking, sharing & creating are not linear
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ContextFraming
InformationPerspectiveQuestioning
Problem-solving
Skills from social media:
Image Source: https://huskfw.info/uploads/images/pacman-firewall.png
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Schools are buildings, not constraints
Source: Digital Humanities; http://digitalhumanities.strikingly.com/
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Social media emphasizes genuine skills & practice
Source: Digital Humanities; http://digitalhumanities.strikingly.com/
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Twitter• Evening chats for essay evidence• Group study sessions• Publishing of work for students & parents• High quality commenting• Pre-teaching predictions• Field trip communication & reflection• Sharing educational resources with
students & parents – transparency of process
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Twitter @BCDS_History_56@BCDS_History_78
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Commenting = feedback, dialogue, & inquiry
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Social Media is a powerful – and natural – tool for differentiation
Source: http://www.edutopia.org/blog/differentiated-instruction-social-media-tools-john-mccarthy
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Social media enhances skills already taught
Source: Digital Humanities; http://digitalhumanities.strikingly.com/
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Vine
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Wait for it… wait for it… or is it instant?
Source: Digital Humanities; http://digitalhumanities.strikingly.com/
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Tumblr
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Collaborative consumption is a process
Source: Digital Humanities; http://digitalhumanities.strikingly.com/
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Padlet
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Everyone is a facilitator & a curator
Source: Digital Humanities; http://digitalhumanities.strikingly.com/
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Social media is not the culprit
Thank You!