10.18.2015
Internet Safety and Responsible Use
Ollie emphasizes that the key part of the term "Internet Safety" is the Responsible Use of the internet. The real problem all around the schools of the world is that we always face the challenge of locking block a service down or or keeping that service open and work with children and young people to educate them how to use it
responsibly.
A great example is mobile phones in schools. Ollie believes that mobile phones aren;t banned in schools because they are a distraction, but because the teachers have a class management problem.
Ollie then speaks about privacy and how it is defined by different groups of people. He outlines the safety issues which are generated by the internet and gives us some safety guidelines.
He concludes that if the problem is children using social media irresponsibly, perhaps the solution is in young people
using social media responsibly.
Social Media in the Workplace
There are professions where social media play a significant role. Ollie mentions jobs which require a digital portfolio, like artists, graphic designers, architects, game designers and writers.
Ollie mentions corporations that make good use of social medias and points out the benefits of this kind of advertisement.
Social Media as a Learning Network
Ollie reffers on a research by Dr. Alec Couros a Canadian Educator. He developed two models: a) the traditional teacher network. In this model information was being delivered to the teacher. This model is a one way model. b) the network teacher or modern teacher. They are able to use the rich resources of the internet. A network teacher can be connected with collegues and classrooms all around the world.
Ollie suggest another model: a) face to face, b)digital closed communities and c) Digital open communities.
Being part of all three of these things allows us to improve our knowledge, allows us to improve our skills and it allows us to improve as being reflective practitioners.
Microsoft Educators Network
they’ve got some really really good resources in there for school improvement. There’s also discussion forums and there’s an opportunity for people to sign up to become part of the Microsoft Innovative Schools Network. There are also hot-topic discussions which occur most months around contemporary issues such as mobile phones in schools or how we can get a better use of technology which is often expensive if we buy it
GoogleEducators Group.
There are Google educator groups all over the world. After you have visited the site you can find the group nearest to your country and join to it. If there isn't a group in your country you have the possibility to initiate one yourself,
Promethean
There are free resources to promote teachers' effectiveness. Personal learning as well as collaborative learning are basic approaches.
It is worth looking at because
it’s a great place to be able to share resources with people from around the world. Times EducationalSupplement
It is a large network of teachers in the world.
etwinning.net
Twitter is a micro network that works with hashtags #.
Twazzup is a way that you can put the hashtag into the website and it pulls together all of the video, all of the tweets and all of the links.
Slideshare
It’s a great way to be able to publish your own presentations for students to view but it’s also a great way as well for you to be able to go on and to find other presentation ideas.
What is Social Media
The first question that arises is: How can we define social media?
Social media allow us to communicate with others, they allow us to communicate with specific target groups, they link people together to collaborate on a
wide variety of interesting topics, they connect us with people with common interests.
"Social media is computer-mediated tool that allow people to create, share or exchange information, ideas, and pictures/videos in virtual communities and networks. "
Wikipedia
- Tencent, the chinese equivalent for facebook
- Google+
- Wordpress
- Flickr by Yahoo
- Slideshare by LinkedIn
10.17.2015
How to use social media - Introduction
The subsections of this module are:
- Introduction
- What is social media?
- Social Media as a Learning Network
- Social Media in the workplace
- Internet Safety and responsible use.
There was a project called "SMILE" which stands for "Social Media In Learning and Education". The project was sponsored by Facebook and European Schoolnet. The project looked at the social media in more depth.
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Konstantina Chryssanthopoulou, Greece
My school is a new building and has enough room and adequate technological equipment. We have PCs and Projectors in almost every classroom, we have two IWBs and we've won with my students 11 ipads last year, which we can use in the lesson.
Of course, there are also problems:
a) The students. The school is in a relatively poor location of my town, so the students don't live always under the best circumstances. A great part of the students are immigrants and have learning difficulties. They don't have PCs or laptops or internet at home or their parents don't understand the educational value the internet might have and son't allow them to have access. Only a minority of the students is learning motivated.
b) The teachers. The most teachers in my school are also not very motivated and laugh at every innovation. They don't want to use the technological equipment of our school more than showing a video. They feel threatened by new technologies and innovation. They don't want do be assessed and deny to do anything that is not "their task"
c) The school. We are not allowed to BYOD. There are so many restrictions from the ministry of education. The curricula don't mention new technologies at all. There is a lack of logical rules in our school, so sometimes there is chaos.
10.12.2015
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