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The second installment of this post is now up. Check out the Social Media Effect on Education.
-Robin
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Showing posts with label social networking and young people. Show all posts
Showing posts with label social networking and young people. Show all posts
Friday, April 24, 2009
Friday, April 3, 2009
Text messaging vs. phone calls
Heres something interesting as a followup to our concept for this class: Not only are older adults using text messaging more, but a survey from Opinion Research Corp. found that text messages are quicker: kids typically respond to a text message within a minute. The survey found that not only are users under the age of 30 more likely to answer a text sooner than voicemail, but also adults 30 and older are more likely to respond to a text in a few minutes rather than a voice message.
A few thoughts... as text messaging of lots of teens can approach and exceed 1,000 texts per month and minutes are limited to 450-600 per month are we now implying that speaking and verbal person to person communication are going to fall behind?
What is it about this kind of immediacy that might lead to some out of the box thinking about the propensity to use these types of devices for communication?
So if you want to get important information to someone fast you know what to do! http://tinyurl.com/6kvkgg
A few thoughts... as text messaging of lots of teens can approach and exceed 1,000 texts per month and minutes are limited to 450-600 per month are we now implying that speaking and verbal person to person communication are going to fall behind?
What is it about this kind of immediacy that might lead to some out of the box thinking about the propensity to use these types of devices for communication?
So if you want to get important information to someone fast you know what to do! http://tinyurl.com/6kvkgg
Friday, February 27, 2009
TC Digital Media Blog
Teachers College Digital Media in the Classroom MSTU5814.001
A broadened spectrum of digital learning technologies brings along new possibilities for education across cultural boundaries.
If social networking spaces such as facebook, Second Life, G-Chat, IM, Twitter, and YouTube, alongside handheld devices, cell phones, text messaging, email and voice mail -- have become an integral part of the lives of young people looking for new ways to engage in online digital sociability, how can education tap into that collective? New studies on Internet and social media tools reveal their affinity for mobile, untethered and social opportunities for interaction and cite their current uses to communicate, gather and share information.
Our first week's questions to respond to, from your own experience and the readings provided:
Mark Prensky writing in Digital Natives, Digital Narratives articles comments on students as opposed to those teaching them:
"Digital Immigrant instructors, who speak an outdated language (that of the pre-digital age), are struggling to teach a population that speaks an entirely new language."
— 1. How can we re-envision the educational potential which exists in the burgeoning number of social networks – the new media of interconnectedness? What role, if any do they play in education?
— 2. What has been the wider social, educational, cultural, and political impact of these new media for inter-connectedness?
We will experiment with social networking tools and learn to locate specific audiences in order to critically experience and discuss the possibilities and limitations for personal use and within an educational setting.
Short post on ‘Why Social Networks are good for the kids:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/02/24/why-social-networks-are-good-for-the-kids/
Final Assignment:
Students are being asked to
1. Join a blogging network such as blogger, set up a blogsite and post your thoughts and experiences there. Students are required to post a minimum of three posts per week on your personal/professional blog.
2. You will receive an invitation to join this blog. Discussions will be shared on this site and students are required to post responses to questions (provided by the instructors) here.
All one-credit students will complete a project or design a blogsite describing a plan for incorporating digital media and/or social media into school curriculum. The setting for the project might be the school the student actually teaches in, or a hypothetical school situation and you may use your blog site to create and promote this assignment. These descriptions should be informed by readings and class discussions, and should provide a rationale for using media in the classroom, a description of the media to be used, and a discussion of how these media would fit into a school setting. Projects will be due after the workshop date of April 25th, on Sunday May 3rd by midnight.
A broadened spectrum of digital learning technologies brings along new possibilities for education across cultural boundaries.
If social networking spaces such as facebook, Second Life, G-Chat, IM, Twitter, and YouTube, alongside handheld devices, cell phones, text messaging, email and voice mail -- have become an integral part of the lives of young people looking for new ways to engage in online digital sociability, how can education tap into that collective? New studies on Internet and social media tools reveal their affinity for mobile, untethered and social opportunities for interaction and cite their current uses to communicate, gather and share information.
Our first week's questions to respond to, from your own experience and the readings provided:
Mark Prensky writing in Digital Natives, Digital Narratives articles comments on students as opposed to those teaching them:
"Digital Immigrant instructors, who speak an outdated language (that of the pre-digital age), are struggling to teach a population that speaks an entirely new language."
— 1. How can we re-envision the educational potential which exists in the burgeoning number of social networks – the new media of interconnectedness? What role, if any do they play in education?
— 2. What has been the wider social, educational, cultural, and political impact of these new media for inter-connectedness?
We will experiment with social networking tools and learn to locate specific audiences in order to critically experience and discuss the possibilities and limitations for personal use and within an educational setting.
Short post on ‘Why Social Networks are good for the kids:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/02/24/why-social-networks-are-good-for-the-kids/
Final Assignment:
Students are being asked to
1. Join a blogging network such as blogger, set up a blogsite and post your thoughts and experiences there. Students are required to post a minimum of three posts per week on your personal/professional blog.
2. You will receive an invitation to join this blog. Discussions will be shared on this site and students are required to post responses to questions (provided by the instructors) here.
All one-credit students will complete a project or design a blogsite describing a plan for incorporating digital media and/or social media into school curriculum. The setting for the project might be the school the student actually teaches in, or a hypothetical school situation and you may use your blog site to create and promote this assignment. These descriptions should be informed by readings and class discussions, and should provide a rationale for using media in the classroom, a description of the media to be used, and a discussion of how these media would fit into a school setting. Projects will be due after the workshop date of April 25th, on Sunday May 3rd by midnight.
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