Using Social Media for Your Curriculum

General suggestions: Integrating Educational Technologies into Your Classrooms

 

Your assignment:

Many federal government agencies and educational organizations now utilize Facebook, Twitter, and other social media. Students and teachers can receive alerts about impending events and dangers, as well as comment about them to the world

1) What characteristics make social media effective as a classroom teaching tool?

2) When should social media be incorporated for full-class instruction, and when should they be used for small groups or individual projects?

3) Describe strategies to locate suitable social media for your classes. Comment on how such strategies match school district policies.

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4) Design a lesson plan that incorporates at least one application of social media.

E2C Follow-up:

You may send your model lesson and other responses to this “assignment” to michael@earth2class.org. If suitable, we will post your work in the E2C lesson plans and/or add them to this section of the Workshop website.