12 Things Students Should Never Do on Social Media The last thing young people want is another set of rules. But these days, social media comes with great responsibility, whether you're just starting high school or finishing up college. The fact is, irresponsible social media conduct could potentially ruin your education and negatively impact your career, not to mention hurt others in the process. (And we're not just talking kids, either.) But most of those consequences are preventable, often with just a little foresight. We've pinpointed 12 social media mistakes that students should avoid at all costs, because after all, it's never as simple as "be responsible." Please head to the comments below to add your own contributions and advice for young adults on social media. 1. Granted, high school and college students experiment with many activities and substances. Once or twice per year, perform a thorough review of the information and content accessible on your social media profiles. 2. Check your school's policy on bullying. 3. 4. 5. 6.
Introducing A Facebook Guide for Educators and Community Leaders Memo HR staff: a social profile is not a CV 'How moral this espionage is still worries me.' Photo: Reuters It's creepy to think that you're being stalked. Not only are we told that this repugnant practice occurs but it's promoted as a reality in the education system. I remember hearing a lecture in Year 9 before applying for work experience placements. The presenter, ignoring the boys, said words along the lines of ''now you girls have all sorts of profile photos. Advertisement My classmates were terrified at this order and surely enough went home and deleted photos. In all this, there's an assumption that snooping on our social pages is legitimate. These excellent principles, however, fail to be honoured in one circumstance: when it concerns young people. In one interview, a HR guy brazenly said not only that this practice occurred but that the system was effective. How moral this espionage is still worries me; but it still doesn't justify spying on kids routinely before they're hired. Olympia Nelson is a year 11 student
What Your Teen Is Really Doing All Day On Twitter And Instagram For all the ways that adults enhance real-life relationships with social media, many have a hard time believing that online connectivity is anything but terrifying in the hands of teenagers. In her new book It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens (February 25, Yale University Press), Microsoft principal researcher danah boyd addresses the fears and misconceptions that adults have about teens' use of social media, revealing that online networks can be a lifeline and a safety valve for a generation under extreme pressure. Based on 10 years of research, including conversations with teens across the country, boyd explores the motivations and even sophisticated etiquette that governs teens' online behavior, and explains how adults--including businesses looking to attract a teen audience--can ditch the fear and condescension, and embrace teens' complicated but important relationship with technology. FAST COMPANY: What got you interested in studying teens' use of social media?
Elyse Eidman-Aadahl on Writing in the Digital Age (Big Thinkers Series) Elyse Eidman-Aadahl: Human beings are born storytellers. We're communicators. That's in our DNA, the need to reach out and to communicate. And we do it through voice, we do it through gesture, all those things. But if you think about it, human communication is gone in an instant. So, thinking about this evolution, I always think about three things that even in my lifetime have dramatically changed. Two, we can control our own publication. And the third thing I think of is the opportunity actually to link those computers together to collaborate among people, to create ever more sophisticated maps of content, pieces of content, to build knowledge together, even if actually we've never met and may never meet. Well, just because, of course, the tools that we use to write and publish might be getting ever-easier to use doesn't mean writing itself is any easier. So, now that we can all actually see our writing be published we probably have to engage with the fact that we really are writers.
Online Learning 10 Tips For Teachers To Connect With Parents Via Social Media 10 Tips For Teachers To Connect With Parents Via Social Media by Kathy Cook, former K-12 teacher and Director of Educational Technology for University of Phoenix College of Education Social media provides an opportunity for real-time communication with students and parents, but its use can provide some challenges. This issue was the subject of a survey recently conducted by the College of Education at University of Phoenix. As with many others, teachers are avid users of social media – four-in five use it in their personal and professional lives according to the survey. Unfortunately, this apprehension may be leading to missed opportunities to leverage pervasive and influential tools in the classroom. The College of Education at University of Phoenix is taking steps to help teachers address the unique social and technological dynamics of today’s classrooms. 1. Teachers should be thoughtful about how they use various social media tools. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
The Balance of Screen Time "Television rots your brain." In a similar vein, video games turn your mind to mush, and staring at a screen for too long potentially makes you a zombie. In 1999, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) published a report suggesting that children under two should not have any screen time. Since the release of that report, numerous studies have emerged to address this issue of screen time, from the 2012 report Facing the Screen Dilemma: Young Children, Technology and Early Education to Lisa Guernsey's Screen Time: How Electronic Media - From Baby Videos to Educational Software - Affects Your Young Child. Particularly when working with elementary teachers, I frequently hear concerns about screen time in the classroom, and they are not wrong. Is it appropriate? Appropriate Use When contemplating screen time, I always come back to this iconic Grover sketch from Sesame Street. Meaningful Interactions The devices are not really valued as portable screens or mobile gaming devices.
Social media lessons from Coca-Cola, Starbucks, and Delta Are you missing a critical social media KPI? 'Social media disconnects', or when consumers unfriend/unlike or unfollow as a result of a social media marketing initiative or campaign, isn't a term in many marketers' vocabulary. Perhaps it's time for that to change. At the second annual Goldman Sachs Social Media Forum earlier this spring, Wendy Clark, SVP of Integrated Marketing Communications at Coca-Cola, covered a lot of ground with fellow panelists, including the topic of how highly engaged social media participants can shift to higher consumption patterns. For consumer packaged goods companies (or any company that has to deal with competitive issues related to share of market and share of wallet), that's a huge deal because most of the marketing and advertising dollars spent within the consumer packaged goods category are focused on preference change and increasing consumption of the product. Major brands don’t have an awareness problem. Overconsumption among loyalists The L word
Students Battle School Districts Over First Amendment Rights On Social Media Across the country, school administrators are restricting Twitter and Facebook use, even outside of school. Numerous cases highlight retaliation against students for things stated online, such as in social media and through blogging, addressing their First Amendment rights outside the realm of the education system. (Photo/Ed Yourdon via Flickr) When a New York high school student started a Twitter campaign highlighting his district’s budget woes, he found himself suspended from school for what the administration labeled as harassment. Pat Brown, a senior at Cicero-North Syracuse High School and member of the student council, began tweeting about the 2012-13 failed district budget, accompanying his tweets with the hashtag #shitCNSshouldcut. The hashtag caught on among students, creating a social media frenzy administration officials weren’t thrilled with. The revolution will be tweeted In Brown’s case, administrators applied district rules to the student’s out-of-school behavior.
Using QR Codes to Differentiate Instruction An expectation of the Common Core Learning Standards is that teachers differentiate their instruction to meet the needs of all children. This includes special education and general education students, as well as English-Language Learners. One of my favorite technology tools, the QR code, can be used to meet the needs of a variety of students in one classroom. A QR (quick response) code is similar in principle to a barcode -- a matrix image that can be scanned using a mobile device like a smartphone or a tablet with Internet access. In a differentiated classroom, children are working in groups based on level, interest or learning style. One option is to make QR codes that send each student in your class to the same website and create activities that are differentiated. A second option for using QR codes to differentiate instruction is to create different codes for different groups. Have you used QR codes in your classroom? see more see less