Link Love & Social Media in Schools

Here are some links discussing Social Media in Schools:

• Social Media Educators Need to Use and Know It
• Twitter and Facebook – Are they useful in Education?
• Blogs & Wiki’s at the Elementary School Level
• Delicious as a Tool for Teachers
• Blogging as Part of Your Class
• Interesting Ways to Use Twitter in the Classroom

Social Media, Twitter, Facebook, Education

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What Are We Teaching to Todays Youth

I’m not going to speak to this issue, instead I will let the original article that inspired me to blog this do the talking.

Are iPod-banning schools cheating our kids?

The larger, more interesting question is: Why do we devote so much time and energy teaching kids to memorize facts we know they’ll forget? We should instead teach critical thinking, creative decision-making and sophisticated information retrieval.

Education, Technology, K12 Education

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Social Media in the Classroom

Our district has Facebook and Twitter blocked for reasons I don’t know. I’ve been using Facebook for a while, but just started using it regularly in the last 3 months. I’ve been cautious in how I use it, especially with whom I have as friends. I only have 15 friends and most are either school related, people I work with or people in the technology field. I only have 2 people that I know as personal friends on Facebook and I also have a few people that are blogging people like
John Chow at John Chow Dot Com.

I am also on Twitter, which I have been using quite a lot recently. I see a use for these in a classroom setting, along with a need for the school systems to teach proper online use with these programs to our students. Seeing that you can communicate with a large group of people using both sites, I think that it would be a great idea to have an elective class on it’s use and a have them used in any class as a way to communicate ideas, or schedules or even homework.

What do you think? Answer the poll and leave a comment.

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