Social Networking in School

Team members

Paul Angus

• I teach Commerce in a boys school in Melbourne that has had laptops for 15 years or so.

• I have been there for 22 years so experienced the full ICT implementation history .

• I teach Economics and Accounting, Coordinate the VCE and involved with the basketball program.

• Student ID - 93345484

Shireen Richardson• Full-time teacher at a

large, three campus school which follows a parallel education model; currently teaching Year 6 boys English; Year 7 girls English, Geography, History, and Wellbeing; Years 7-12 Cross Country and Athletics.Student ID - 201512523

Russell Waldron

• Past Head of ICT at private girls' schools in Sydney

• Computing teacher/champion in Victorian Catholic and government schools.

Student ID - 93334082

Leonie McGlashan

• Full time teacher at a four campus public secondary school in south east Melbourne.

• Teach science and VCE

Chemistry and coordinate the primary science program. ICT and environmental champion.

Student ID - 400110475

Shift Happens

Further discussion: http://shifthappens.wikispaces.com/

‘Social networking services can be broadly defined as Internet- or mobile-device-based social spaces designed to facilitate communication, collaboration and content sharing across networks of contacts.’

(Childnet International. 2007)

Define: Social Networking

Most teens A large minority of professionals A larger minority of retirees

Who uses Social Media?

Australia wide 30% use email/chat daily 22% search for non-study reasons daily

Students underuse ICT

Collaboration between students Communication teacher ↔ student Access to thoughts of outsiders

School purposes

Written information Online tutorials Terminology One tool at a time Hands-on beginning task Monitor, Stimulate, Feedback, Evaluate Student reflections

(Bell & Kuon 2009)

Supported introduction

Use names Respond quickly, often Thoughtful, individual feedback Vary technology, resources and experiences Disclose personal stories Rich profile Informal online voice Get and use feedback and critique Go off-topic

(Robinson and Whitemarsh 2009)

Enhancing communication

Constructivist pedagogy 21st Century skills Moral, social and civics education

Why use social networking?

Social networking allows work to be: Collaborative Constructive Self-directed Extended Peer-scaffolded

(Van Harmelan 2008)

Constructivist pedagogy

NSBA study of 2300 9-17 year olds in USA 96% use some social networking 60% discuss education topics 50% discuss schoolwork Average 9 hours in social sites (vs 10 of TV)

(ChildnetInternational 2007)

21st Century skills

'It is our duty to our students to start modeling responsible use of social media and encouraging them to follow our lead. We can no longer afford the veil.'

(Johnson 2010)

Moral development

social participants, active citizens content creators, managers and distributors team players explorers and learners independent building resilience developing key and real-world skills

(Childnet International. 2007)

Young people online

Social media will become even more popular, more mobile, and more exclusive

(Armano 2009)

Trends

social media to look less social customer support and business uses more incentives (games and prizes) for

usage workplace policies increased use of mobile technology social media displacing email

(Armano 2009)

Trends

Trends

Trends

Trends

Technology jargon

Watch Myspace Monetisation (e.g. Ning) Web 3.0 – the Semantic Web Moore’s Law

Trends

TrendsEducational Trends: Mobile learning Cloud computing One-to-one computing Ubiquitous learning Game-based learning Personalised learning

Architectural change Open content Online experts Portfolio assessment Facilitative teaching More information

Fears Predators Persecution Pornography Profiling Plagiarism Illiteracy Brain plasticity Socialisation

Prosecution Productivity Privacy Disintermediation Equity of access

Twitter Facebook Ning Edmodo

Four Social Technologies

Twitter Shireen Richardson

Compose (tweet) messages, up to 140 characters long, at any time

View messages posted by other users Pass on (retweet) messages from others Communicate directly or indirectly

Twitter – a micro-blogging platform

Egocentric – Tell the world! Business – Develop networks, promote

goods and services, listen to customer feedback

Social – Connect people with similar interests

Education – Teaching and learning

Twitter – usage

View /participate in educational forums Find like-minded professionals Build networks Share ideas Compare Learn Collaborate Discuss (teacher-teacher, teacher-student,

student-student)

Twitter – educational value

Twitter – current usage

Source: website-monitoring.com

Ning @ ning.comBy Leonie McGlashan

Ning, Inc, 2010

Private nings

LOW RISKHeneberry, 2010

Facebook in schoolsRussell Waldron

Sample educational uses Life skills Class discussions Character studies Dissemination Mentoring Affective learning

(Waldron 2010)

Faceworking

A profile of a teenager is typically:

A developing, social identity Play and humour, not accuracy Peer-built, not personal