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Making the Classroom :

Conceptualizing and Integrating Social Media into the Secondary School Humanities ClassroomChallenges of the Traditional Classroom Reorientation via Social Media Social Media Tools Applications in Classroom

11 September 2009Follow me on: @nkogan

http://nkogan.wordpress.comFort Worth Country DayNate Kogan

Isolation of student work

Teacher-centrism

Students seek all validation from teacher

Obsession with the right answer

Teacher responsible for managing andtracking all student work

Propensity for didactic lecturing

reinforces Sage on the Stage notions.

Insight and access into formative learning

see students thinking process

Students can see each others learning

process and constantly give feedback

Teacher models constructive criticism and

acts as lead-learner

Discourages plagiarism through

transparency

Reduce emphasis on summative product.

Less focus on right answer and grades

Shift focus to comments and studentsintellectual growth.

Student-centrism

ClassroomInterconnectedness

Create accessibility and visibility for:

Sharing student work digitally

Students and teacherbeyondthe

classroom and the school day.

Other classes and educators across the

country or the world

Blogs

RSS Reader

Diigo

Twitter and Apps

Edmodo

Collaborative Writing

Venue for Student Writing/Digital Portfolio

Incorporate and embed multiple media

Promotes inter-textual connections and citation

Teacherandpeers comment easily

Aggregate and track student work

Eliminate paper

Create transparency for students to see:

each others ideas

each others and teachers comments

Ease of tracking research and notes

Annotate web pages

Transparent research

Students linked to each others sources

Students linked to each others annotations

Backchannel for class discussions

Review tool for quizzes and tests

Collaborative resource collection

Utility to enhance class interconnectedness

Student-to-Student feedback

Student communication with teacher

Well-designed course management

Facebook-like interface

Easy file-sharing and assignment posting

Calendar and grading functionality

Provides insight into formative process

For both teachers and students

Ability to track individual contributions

Ability to track changes and previous versions

Eliminates email attachment clutter

Students focus on summative product overformative process

Generally cram for tests; prioritizeknowledge of meaning-creation

Focus on grade, not on comments

Ineffective (and infrequent) peer-editing

Prioritize social capital above

constructive criticism