social media for foreign languages classrooms

FRIENDS with your class?FOLLOW your class?

LOVE your class?Speaking to your students in their native digital

language

SOCIAL MEDIALEARNING TARGET:

We will be able to

understand and explain specific aspects of different social media networks,

analyze how are our students using them

create our own pathway to engage them in foreign language learning through these platforms

SOCIAL MEDIA

Definition? ______ & ______ + _______ for ____________ so ________ = correct

SOCIAL MEDIAPre-assessment

SOCIAL MEDIAPre-assessment

Digital Natives?

“FRIEND”?

“FOLLOW”?

“LOVE”?

“TWEET”?

“POST”?

“#”?

Snapchat?

Vine?

Flipagram?

Foursquare?

Tumblr?

SOCIAL MEDIALet’s Play Bingo...

SOCIAL MEDIALet’s Play Bingo...

SOCIAL MEDIAHuman Bingo...

Find someone in this room .....

Now that you’ve started in your table

Only one per person

SOCIAL MEDIAHuman Bingo...

19-20 pts. --> PLEASE join me up here NOW and share everything you know, I must learn from you

15-18 pts. --> let’s team up for an upcoming presentation, we can learn a lot from each other

10-14 pts. --> thank you for sharing comments, experiences as well as questions

9 or less pts. --> I’ll leave happy if we can “friend, like or love” each other once this presentation is over.

SOCIAL MEDIA

YouTube?

Blogs?

Edmodo?

Tellagami?

Remind 101?

Class Dojo?

What about.....?

SOCIAL MEDIA

YouTube?

Blogs?

Edmodo?

Tellagami?

Remind 101?

Class Dojo?

What about.....?

SOCIAL MEDIA

Definition? ______ & ______ + _______ for ____________ so ________ = correct

SOCIAL MEDIA

Definition? ______ & ______ + _______ for ____________ so ________ = correct

for your students

Definition? TIME effort dedication entertainment connections

SOCIAL MEDIAfor your students

WAIT! Can you explain what each of these

can do?

DATA

Pew Research Center in 2010

Why do students use social media?

DATA

Pew Research Center in 2010

➡ Students feel ISOLATED without Social Media

No social media means losing their personal connections. Going without media means, in their world, going without any friends or adventure.

➡ Students feel ISOLATED without Social Media

So.... how can we reach them?

SOCIAL MEDIALEARNING TARGET:

We will be able to

understand and explain specific aspects of different social media networks,

analyze how are our students using them

create our own pathway to engage them in foreign language learning through these platforms

2010- Instagram launched

2012- by April= 100 million active users & bought for

$1billion by Facebook

2014- Largest growing app

2010- Instagram launched

2012- by April= 100 million active users & bought for

$1billion by Facebook

2014- Largest growing app

So.... how do they use it?

So.... how do they use it?

introducing

So.... how do they use it?

introducing the.....

Selfie!!!

introducing

So.... how do they use it?

introducing the.....

Selfie!!!

introducing

Oxford Dictionary’s Word of 2013

So.... how do they use it?

“cards” “messaging”expression

So.... how should WE use it?

target language contenttarget language discussion

videosselfies!!!

anything you can think of

So.... how should WE use it?

Videos???

So.... how should WE use it?

Videos???

SOCIAL MEDIALEARNING TARGET:

We will be able to

understand and explain specific aspects of different social media networks,

analyze how are our students using them

create our own pathway to engage them in foreign language learning through these platforms

take a picture

add filters (or not)

start a conversation (pose questions)

(hashtag with care)

continue the conversation offline (in class)

SOCIAL MEDIAGOAL

engage students

you cannot control, just steer...

don’t panic, yet keep the panic button handy

let them generate content

allow yourself to

be fun,

have fun,

make fun of yourself

keep it fun

SOCIAL MEDIAGOAL

to add to, not substitute, the learning

SOCIAL MEDIASAFETY

keep it all public and accessible to parents and administrators

let administrators and parents know; ask them to “follow, like or love” you

ask students to use it WITH their parents

when in doubt, stop to ask

Let’s work together!

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