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OVERVIEW
OVERVIEW
Social networking systems enable users to share photos and videos, post text-thoughts and run polls via their personalized profile pages. They can be used to help students share content, provide feedback and as trouble-shooting support to one another, and harvest perceptions via comments and voting activities.
Affordances
Affordances
(K-12) Free app that allows teachers, students, and parents to connect in a private space. Easy to login in using a QR code, text code or Google login. Can follow students year to year. Teacher's approve posts before shared.
Pedagogical Uses
Pedagogical Uses
Teachers and students can create and share via a variety of digital tools (pictures, videos, documents, presentations, etc.). Students can create a digital learning portfolios that are private to the classroom. Students and parents can view student portfolios and track student progress across multiple courses. Parents and teachers can provide encouraging comments for students. Teachers can provide instruction and feedback for students with private grades and feedback. Teachers can message parents directly through the app, with the app providing translation into 30 different languages.
Resources
Resources
https://www.classdojo.com/resources/#leaders
Class Dojo provides multiple materials for teachers to advertise and share with parents to explain the app and how to access it. Excellent support services (teacher quick guide for setting up account, parent account support, and a help desk).
Affordances
Affordances
(Academics) Academia.edu is a free platform for academics to share research papers. The company's mission is to accelerate the world's research. Over 127 million academics have signed up to Academia.edu, adding 25 million papers. Once you create an account you will receive emails notifying you of additional papers similar to those you have accessed through the platform recently. In addition, there is a blog (Medium) with posts geared to help academics navigate writing, publishing and tracking the of citation of papers.
There is also a premium (paid for) version that gives you access to more tools and tracking of your contributions to the site.
Cons: Because researchers upload their own papers, not all papers are peer reviewed. There may be copyright issues if researchers did not realize they signed away the copyright, or the version posted may be different than the version in a publication to get around this issue.
Pedagogical Uses
Pedagogical Uses
Through this site academics are able to share their research, monitor deep analytics around the impact of their research, and track the research of academics they follow. Academics can create a profile, upload their CV and publications, allowing for ease of contact between academics. In addition, academics can view their impact report to see who visited,and downloaded or viewed their work by a diverse series of metrics including: unique visitors, country, city, and university. Posting papers to the site can increase your search engine optimization as well.
Students (mostly graduate level) can use it to find free access to papers related to a topic of interest. With an account the home page will populate with the latest articles related to topics you have searched in the past, and emails will be sent notifying you of new or related papers in the field.
Resources
Resources
Academia is not an OER. The link below can help you to understand the implications of this:
https://libraries.ou.edu/content/understanding-academiaedu-and-researchgate
Affordances
Affordances
(Anyone education level, but most likely Middle/High school and up) Most widely known and used social media platform. Prior experience in using Facebook outside of the classroom provides ease of navigation and a high comfort level in sharing ideas. Students can shift from only receiving knowledge to both searching and sharing their knowledge via discussion and sharing video or document links. Easy to use on any type of device.
Note: Some school districts may block access to this resources via school owned devices (chromebooks, computers, ipads).
Pedagogical Uses
Pedagogical Uses
Create a Facebook group for your class.
First, teachers should use Facebook to create class groups. Groups on Facebook have privacy settings, so teachers can make a Facebook group for their class that is a safe place to share information online.
Document class adventures.
This generation loves to document every part of their lives; therefore, teachers should take advantage of the ease of documenting and sharing pictures from class activities such as field trips.
Use Facebook Live to provide additional help.
Facebook Live is a new feature that is immensely useful in the classroom. It is a tool that allows teachers to record videos which students may view through live streaming or later. This is a terrific way to record and share videos of difficult lessons so that students can watch and learn after school.
Teach students digital citizenship skills.
By encouraging students to interact online through Facebook, teachers can help students gain digital citizenship skills. They can model how to comment and share online content correctly. They can also use Facebook as a teaching tool for distinguishing between real and fake news.
Create Facebook polls.
Students love taking polls, so this added Facebook feature makes it easy to poll your students about simple things or class materials.
Develop fake profiles for characters.
Facebook can be used to research important people. Additionally, some teachers have discovered that students love the idea of creating fake profiles for the people they are studying in class.
Share educational content.
Since Facebook makes it extremely easy to share materials, this is the perfect place to share educational content. For instance, teachers can share videos and articles from reliable news sources related to the information they are studying in class.
Post events.
Students tend to sync their online calendars with Facebook. Therefore, it is helpful for students when teachers create events for their classes that will register on their calendars like exam days.
Provide links to important documents.
Facebook groups also allow the users to upload important files that are only accessible to the group. If a teacher has material that students need to keep up with all year, Facebook offers great online storage.
Make global connections.
Finally, Facebook is a wonderful way to make global connections with other teachers and students across the world.
List from: https://www.thetechedvocate.org/10-ways-use-facebook-classroom/
** Teachers need to discuss privacy settings and the collection of personal information for use by Facebook, inform yourself before asking students to participate in this platform** https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281336143_Facebook_and_Education_Students'_Privacy_Concerns
Resources
Resources
Seemingly endless network of people, organizations, and businesses to follow and share. Many educational groups and pages available for both teachers and students to explore.
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