This is a presentation I gave at Kennesaw

1. SOCIAL MEDIA
in education
Noah Echols

2. NAME THAT WRITER
1 2 3 4 5
Poe Yeats Morrison Ginsberg Shaw
10 9 8 7 6
Hurston Twain Anne Frank Shakespeare Dickens
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3. LET YOUR STUDENTS CHEAT
 Wikipedia
 Crowdsoursing = new way for active learning
 Why compete with resources that already exist?
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4. WHAT IS SOCIAL MEDIA
Platforms that facilitate online mass communication.
and/or
Content produced by users on social media platforms for the
purpose of sharing for some reason.
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5. WHAT MAKES SM SIGNIFICANT?
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6. WHAT MAKES SM SIGNIFICANT?
During the average 20-minute period in 2010, there were:
More video is uploaded to YouTube in 60 days than all 3 major US
Twitter users send 55 million tweets per day. (website-
1,5870,000 wall posts, 2,716,000 photos uploaded and
networks created in 60 years. (website-monitoring.com)
monitoring.com)
10,208,000 comments posted to Facebook. (AllFacebook.com)
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7. WHY SHOULD EDUCATORS CARE?
 Social media use is ubiquitous
 It is changing how we live our lives
 Students expect similar communication styles and methods
 Students want to create
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8. WHAT ABOUT PRIVACY?
 Zuckerberg’s Vision
 Your personal lives and professional lives are blending
 Viral Discourse
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9. WAIT, SO EDUCATORS ARE
USELESS?
 NO!
 But, educators must invite students to be co-creators of
knowledge rather than passive sponges.
 Students are sifting through both bad and good information daily.
Teach them to be an effective filter and you’ve done more than
enough.
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10. WHAT DOES THIS LOOK LIKE?
 Foreign Language on Facebook
 Follow thought-leaders on Twitter
 Search political discourse on YouTube
 Use FB groups for class collaboration
 Get students to tweet events/classes/ideas - Storify
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11. THINGS TO REMEMBER
 It isn’t innovative to substitute a YouTube video for a lecture.
Incorporate the social aspect of social media into curriculum
 You can’t win the battle for attention. Harness it.
 The is a wealth of information created everyday. Use it.
 We are still in transition so the old rules and new rules apply
simultaneously.
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12. RESOURCES
 Facebook.com/education
 Inigral.com
 Twitterfall.com
 Search.twitter.com
 http://twitter.com/#!/list/NVEchols/universities
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13. ME
 Facebook.com/nvechols
 Twitter.com/nvechols
 nechols1@kennesaw.edu
 www.ViralDiscourse.com
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14. QUESTIONS
 What potential pitfalls do you foresee?
 What do schools need to help teachers and students be more
innovative?
 Is anyone currently using social media in the classroom?
 Comments, insights, suggestions, rebuttals?
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