Social media and socialnomics in the

BSC classroomHow to bring new tools to your students

(without giving up your connections)

Dr. Martina Arndt, Physics Dr. Nancy Van Leuven, Comm Studies

Cart Celebration! Spring 2010

Some big questions:

What kind of online environment are students immersed in?

How can we incorporate this environment into our classrooms – and should we?

Where are the teaching and learning moments?

What’s going on?

Demographic + technology shifts Uses and types of social media

-- share-- publish-- network

Student-friendly videos (bring it on in!)

Shift happens: Social media rise

Demographic shift + new tech

Roughly 52% of the world’s population is under 30-years-old.

U.S. population = 4.5% of the world population. 

China’s population = 20% of the world population. 

Note: and don’t dominate China; instead,

and nd lead the way

Uses of social media

Share

PublishNetwork

SHARING

Student-friendly video: “Social Bookmarking in Plain English”

All of us can promote anything to everybody.

NETWORKING

All of us can connect with anyone, anywhere.

Student-friendly video: “What is LinkedIn?”

PUBLISHING

All of us can publish anything for everybody.

Student-friendly video: “RSS feeds in Plain English”

SOCIAL MEDIA in the CLASSROOM

sharing, publishing, networkingTweeple list for Corporate Communication students

Social media in physics

YouTube

Alumni tracking through Facebook and LinkedIn

Student groups like the observatory

Twitter (not really…but astronauts are cool!)

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Sample NASA tweets

STS-132 launch countdown began at 4p EDT when clocks in Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Control Center began ticking backward from T-43 hours. about 14 hours ago via web

NASA aircraft deployed to Gulf of Mexico to help assess oil spill & aid disaster response agencies. http://go.usa.gov/iep about 15 hours ago via CoTweet

And in New Teachers Academy

How to manage online personas

Networking

Privacy settings

Multiple accounts – professional and personal

Instant/text messaging

Teens & tweens send around 20,000 texts per second.

Student-friendly video:

Give it a ponder

And then there’s SECOND LIFE!

So, it is here…now what?

Multitasking versus shifting attention

Where do they learn how to behave online?

Does it help them learn?

Final student-friendly overview: Social Media Revolution