Social Media for LearningCurriculum Design Studio

Andrew Middleton

Head of Innovation & Professional Development, QESS

Sheffield Hallam University

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Sue Beckingham

Faculty of Arts, Computing & Sciences

Sheffield Hallam University

@andrewmid @suebecks

Session purpose

Look at the potential of social media for learning by populating the Social Media for Learning framework

Develop a SM4L curriculum design tool together

Good ideas for SM4LFirst, list the good ideas for using social media for enhancing learning

Include:

• Things students do of their own accord

• 'Classroom' or formal techniques - things academics facilitate

• Ways you know or think that could make being a student or an academic easier

Short and inspiring

Aim for 140 characters or less!

Also see: https://t.co/NtwpVYwlzG

Map your ideas for SM4L

World Cafe

Place your Post-it notes under the SM4L headings

Review your ideas

Look at your Post-it notes

Socially Inclusive

Social Media for Learning

Supporting and validating learning through mutually beneficial, jointly enterprising and communally

constructive communities of practiceFostering a sense of belonging, being and becoming

Promoting collegiality

Social Media for Learning Framework produced by Andrew Middleton & Sue Beckingham, Sheffield Hallam University

Social Media for Learning

Life-wide and Lifelong

Connecting formal, non-formal and informal learning progression

Developing online presenceDeveloping digital literacies

Social Media for Learning Framework produced by Andrew Middleton & Sue Beckingham, Sheffield Hallam University

Social Media for Learning

Media Neutral

Learning across and through rich, multiple media

Social Media for Learning Framework produced by Andrew Middleton & Sue Beckingham, Sheffield Hallam University

Social Media for Learning

Learner-centred

Promoting self-regulation, self-expression, self-efficacy and confidence

Accommodating niche interests and activities, the ‘long tail’ of education

Social Media for Learning Framework produced by Andrew Middleton & Sue Beckingham, Sheffield Hallam University

Social Media for Learning

Co-operative

Promotes working together productively and critically with peers (co-creation) in self-

organising, robust networks that are scalable, loosely structured, self-validating,

and knowledge-forming

Social Media for Learning Framework produced by Andrew Middleton & Sue Beckingham, Sheffield Hallam University

Social Media for Learning

Open and Accessible

Supporting spatial, temporal and social openness Promoting open engagement in terms of access

being geographically extended, inclusive, controlled by the learner, gratis, open market or unconstrained

freedom

Social Media for Learning Framework produced by Andrew Middleton & Sue Beckingham, Sheffield Hallam University

Social Media for Learning

Authentically Situated

Making connections across learning, social and professional networks

Being scholarly and establishing professional online presence and digital identity

Social Media for Learning Framework produced by Andrew Middleton & Sue Beckingham, Sheffield Hallam University