What Can Social Media Aggregation Contribute to Advocating for

Education?Thomas I. M. Ho, Ph.D.

@DrThomasHohttp://tpca.DrThomasHo.com

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TODAY IS NOT A WASTED OPPORTUNITYI am NOT talking about educational TECHNOLOGY!

http://dangerouslyirrelevant.org/2014/10/wasting-opportunities-at-ed-tech-conferences.html

http://bit.ly/wapoth

Getting all A’s in school

• Assess learning• Accountability• Advocate

http://blog.learnstreams.com/post/10863713759/getting-all-as-in-school

Why MUST we do it?Transparency

• Student accountability• Teacher encouragement• Education advocacy

Student accountability

• Learning artifacts• Positive digital identities• Electronic portfolios• Badges

Teacher encouragement

• Personal learning networks• To complement other evidence such as

students’ performance

Education advocacy ofPublic Policy

• School choice• Teacher evaluation• High-stakes testing• Parent trigger

HOW will we do it?

• Give up some CONTROL• Make teachers responsible to have Personal

Learning Networks• Assess student learning via social media

Social media & Web 2.0

• Twitter• Diigo• Blog

http://blog.learnstreams.com/post/88571472/were-being-noticed

Aggregate social mediainto LearnStreams

• http://friendfeed.com/drthomasho• RebelMouse

–(https://www.rebelmouse.com/TradersPointCA/)

–Facebook page• Storify (example)• Smore (TPCA Weekly Update)• IFTTT

http://lifestreamblog.com/first-college-course-on-lifestreaming-taught-at-indiana-university/

https://www.rebelmouse.com/traderspointca/

https://www.facebook.com/TradersPointCA

https://storify.com/TradersPointCA/getting-started

https://www.smore.com/tt479-tpca-weekly-update?ref=email

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