I think I need to take a class just on Twitter myself ! There is so much information and I am overwhelmed with how to sort it and use it well. All of these new cool tech tools take time real time and I am feeling very rush to understand and frustrated I don't have enough time to spend developing my skills so I can navigate and use these tools correctly. I am a very visual learner , I like to take my time and process these things on my own terms and that just takes time. All of this learning about how to correctly use technology has really made me realize that we are not talking about this enough with our students, staff, and even our own children.
If I saw a post like the one mentioned I think my response would be something similar to what Patrick Larkin's said he did pulling in all his students and speak to them. I would organize a school wide lesson/ assembly /advisory lesson and speak to the seriousness of what we post, who sees it, and how it can be used in ways you never intended. I might try to talk with the student who made the post with my principal and have them help us to develop the information we present to the students. There comes so much responsibility with the use of social media but it is so easy to create accounts and start posting??? WE are in a time when I feel it is difficult to keep up with how rapidly technology and communication is changing. It does seem fitting that maybe even in English classes they start to teach more about these new ways of appropriately communicating. As I was reading the Innovators Mindset book for 791 I was very interested in him mentioning maybe instead of or along with teaching students how to write essays we teach about writing blogs. I think it is really tough to fully understand how many people can see what we post since it seems so personal with our own smart little phone right in our hands. I know we have had plenty of drama due to things students post on social media at school this year. This needs a topic that we as adults model and talk about with our students. The amazing power of social media comes with responsibility.
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Scott Marsden
3/10/2019 03:57:58 pm
Julie,
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JP
3/12/2019 06:48:56 pm
Social media reminds me a lot of those "slam books" we used to have in middle school. Someone would create this book out of a binder and have all of these personal to fun questions and people would "post" as it were their answers in said book. Only those privy to the book could have access to its answers! Now, with unchecked privacy settings - every single thing you post is released into the universe! Social media can be an awesome tool to learn new things but so much evil can take place as well. I fear that a lot of out students will learn these lessons the hard way if we don't not make it a point in our classes to direct them. We have to meet each other half way though it seems.
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Brandon DeJesus
3/13/2019 02:51:18 pm
Hey! There is so much information online and after seeing how quickly my twitter feed refreshed with new opinions, comments and educational advice, I am excited to use it. Like you mentioned in your blog Its important to consider that most of our students use social media for the purpose of being social and so training them to use social media as an educational tool will take a considerable amount of retraining. I believe that if we work with them our students are fully capable of expanding their use of social media to go beyond a fuel source for drama.
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Julie LovieJulie Lovie Is a Math and Science teacher at Valley Oak High School with 25 years experience in teaching at a continuation high school. Julie Also teaches at Napa valley Adult School in the High School Diploma Program. She is passionate about the environment, loves gardening, and learning. Archives
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