{"id":209,"date":"2008-10-31T06:32:48","date_gmt":"2008-10-31T12:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/contech\/?p=209"},"modified":"2008-10-31T06:41:34","modified_gmt":"2008-10-31T12:41:34","slug":"social-media-and-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/contech\/2008\/10\/31\/social-media-and-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Media and Education"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of these days, I’m going to make it to Educause<\/a>. Until then, I will just have to enjoy the presentations I can find online. Sarah “Intellagirl” Robbins<\/a> has a marvelous slide show<\/a> (featuring an excellent use of presentation software) called “Social Media and Education: The Conflict between Technology and Institution Education, and the Future,” <\/em>that’s well worth a look: <\/p>\n

Educause08: Social Media and Education<\/a><\/object><\/p>\n
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I was especially struck by her insights about the changing role of educators in an information society, “relating as more experienced co-creators rather than employers.” I see this in my own practice in a class<\/a> I’m teaching now in which I, and all my students, are blogging. I’ve done this a couple of times before in different classes<\/a>, and in those courses I’m very much a co-creator with them in that experience rather than an employer-professor-taskmaster. <\/p>\n

There are some real challenges to this as a pedagogical strategy, however. If you’re working at anything but an elite educational environment with hyper-motivated and highly skilled students, it can be difficult to get students who are used to the professor-taskmaster model of education to engage with social media in a meaningful way. The dilemma is not the technology, per se, as much as it is the shift in pedagogical strategy. For students who are used to mass-produced textbooks and multiple-choice exams, the unboundedness of blogging and being in charge of their own educational process can be a little disorienting at first. I try to provide my students with some structure by giving them a “Blog Rubric” for how their blogs will be graded, but still, this can be a daunting task for some students. Even with these challenges, I think it’s worth the effort for those us in front of the classroom to figure out ways we might shift our pedagogical strategy so that we become a “guide at the side” rather than the traditional taskmaster-employer-professor. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of these days, I’m going to make it to Educause. Until then, I will just have to enjoy the presentations I can find online. Sarah “Intellagirl” Robbins has a marvelous slide show (featuring an excellent use of presentation software) called “Social Media and Education: The Conflict between Technology and Institution Education, and the Future,” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[27,78,758,732],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-blogging","tag-higher-education","tag-pedagogy","tag-social-media"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/contech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/contech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/contech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/contech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/contech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/contech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/contech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions\/212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/contech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/contech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/contech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}