ann s. michaelsen teacher and administrator sandvika vgs @annmic using social media to connect...

Ann S. Michaelsen

Teacher and administrator Sandvika vgs

http://annmic.wordpress.com/

@annmic

SOCIAL MEDIA AS A LEARNING TOOL

Using social media to connect students to educators and experts worldwide

Skjermutklipp tatt: 19.09.2012 19:16


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 YouTube and TED. Curriculum

goals 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-paced differentiated

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.

USING SOCIAL MEDIA TO CONNECT EDUCATORS, STUDENTS AND EXPERTS

WORLDWIDE

1:1 schoolBlock scheduling – one subject/class all

day from 8:30 – 13:15

Teaching without textbooksBuilding a PLN with social media: Twitter,

Blogging, Skype, Facebook, YouTube,Using the Internet during exams

MY SCHOOL – MY CLASS

BLOCK SCHEDULING - 1:1 - BLOG


WILL SCHOOLS CHANGE DRAMATICALLY IN THE FUTURE?

Norway meets Lesotho

LEARNING IN AN AUTHENTIC REAL-WORLD PRACTICE, MODELING

REAL-WORLD PROBLEMS

YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JS367RbNAA

Social media a great way to connect!2009 Microsoft’s Worldwide Innovative Education Forum in Brazil.

Moliehi Sekese won the Worldwide Innovative Teacher Awards, category educators choice; Best Practice: Moliehi Sekese (Lesotho),

“Indigenous Plants”.

Moliehi did 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 Mamoeketsi primary school 40.000 dollars. high school scholarships, material, exchange

visits + new school building.

Communication for students to learn and collaborate.

HELPING TEACHERS AND STUDENTS TO BE DIGITALLY INCLUDED

Skype

http://thejournal.com/articles/2009/11/12/award-winners-announced-at-worldwide-innovative-education-forum.aspx

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/press/2009/nov09/11-06MSIEFAwardWinnerPR.aspx

http://annmic.wordpress.com/sandvikakonferansen-del-og-bruk-2012/

http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Microsoft-Powerpoint/Mamoeketsi-Primary-School/Innovation-in-challenging-environments/710000000693




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.

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

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USING TWITTER AND BLOGS

http://pinterest.com/esheninger/twitter-resources-apps-and-tools/



TWITTER AS A LEARNING TOOL

TEN REASONS TEACHERS SHOULD GIVE TWITTER A GO


TWITTER TO CONNECT WITH EXPERTS


RSS – FEEDS TO KEEP UPDATED communicate

Curriculum goals



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!

PUBLISH TO AN AUDIENCE



CONNECTING

KEEPING UP


Questions

challenges


GOALS SET BY STUDENTS

AUTHENTIC MATERIAL LIKE VIDEOS FROM YOUTUBE AND TED.

http://www.ted.com/

http://www.youtube.com/show/nakedscience/videos?view=0

AUTHENTIC REAL-WORLD PRACTICE

https://skydrive.live.com/

STUDENT INVOLVEMENT

USEFUL LINKS

ann s. michaelsen teacher and administrator sandvika vgs @annmic using social media to connect...

Documents

blogs twitter

fellow students

tools twitter

twitter resources

twitter experience

annmic social media

lesotho learning

learning tool