Edutopia. Monsters on Twitter - Comfortably 2.0. I apologize if you were looking for real Monsters.
You won't find them here! What you will find is an awesome project that we did with our 3rd graders that deals with writing about Monsters. Social media project has Jeffersonville students a-Twitter. Using Twitter To Extend My Math Lessons. 6 Fun Social Media Projects to Assign in the Classroom. Let’s face it: nearly every teenager uses social media in one way or another. Social media has changed the way teenagers communicate and the way they consume information. There is understandably some concern about this, as teachers and parents worry that their children will experience cyber-bullying or become addicted to their mobile devices. While these concerns are reasonable, social media is like any other technological tool, and it can be used for good or bad.
We show how teachers can integrate social media into the classroom to engage students in the learning process and train them to use digital technology in productive ways. Source: 1. Some teachers may scoff at the idea, but having students summarize important readings in 140 characters gets them to think critically about the reading’s main idea. A Lesson Using Twitter Must Have A Social Component. A Lesson Using Twitter Must Have A Social Component by Michael Catelli New technology is never universally accepted and can face a slow implementation.
Just look at the fears of the of the 15th century monk Johannes Trithemius who penned a scathing book about the horrors of the printing press and how it would devalue all books. Trithemius must have gravely lamented when he allowed his book to be published on a printing press so more people could read it. Twitter has not created as large of an impact as the printing press, but it is still worthy of implementation. Classrooms around the world are beginning to not just see Twitter as a learning tool, but use it that way. When educators, and society in general, begin implementing new technology the uses tend to replace things that were already done and are typically not transformational.
A lot of online homework portals promise that students will do more homework if teachers use their website because it looks like Facebook, which kids love. Twitter Elementary Lesson Plan. Activity Idea: Teaching Critical Thinking with Social Media. Eight Ways to Integrate Instagram into the Classroom. Everybody has their go-to social media platform when they want to share something with the world.
So where do millennials currently go? According to a Facebook survey of 13-24 year olds in Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, the UK and the US, they have been quietly fleeing popular Facebook for Instagram. (They aren’t getting all that far from it since Facebook actually acquired Instagram in 2012, but far enough.)
In the past five years, Instagram has become the fastest growing major social network, no doubt because of its quickly growing millennial army. Why Instagram? So if a picture really is worth a 1,000 words, students have found a way to adapt to our world’s rapid fire messaging pace and absorb more information at once than any generation before. What does this mean for teachers? Of course you’ll need to lay down some basic ground rules about appropriateness and consequences, but hopefully the idea will be fun enough for all involved that they won’t want to be excluded.
Instagram in Class: Five Ideas. Instagram revolutionized photography with an engaging and simple social platform that allows photo editing and sharing.
Use this free app in your classroom with both smartphones and tablets. You can even start an account just for your class! Nerdy, Nerdy, Nerdy!: Using Instagram as a Classroom Tool. Have you ever heard that phrase, "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em?
" Well, that's what led me to create a class account on Instagram. So the kids are technology pros. We get that. They know all kinds of Internet-y type stuff before I do, and I'm pretty tech-savvy myself. The kids have a billion different types of online accounts and are on them ALL. Do I believe that 5th graders should be using all this technology? Learning and Sharing with Ms. Lirenman: Using Twitter in a Primary Classroom. It's funny, I've been using twitter a fair bit with my students this past year but as I went to find a post about it to share with a colleague on twitter I discovered I've never actually blogged about it.
It's time to fix that. My class and I have used twitter as an incredible connecting, sharing, and learning tool. We've used it for many different purposes and the reality is there is always another way we could be using it. The great thing about Twitter is that it's one of the easiest ways to bring the world into your classroom.