How to use social media - Introduction

The subsections of this module are:

1. Introduction
2. What is social media?
3. Social Media as a Learning Network
4. Social Media in the workplace
5. 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.

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