Lsl webinar l2 t bastian pelka131126

Sozialforschungsstelle DortmundZentrale wissenschaftliche Einrichtung

Social Media (and Shakespeare) in the Classroom.Why do they matter? And how?

Dr. Bastian Pelka

webinar, 12th December 2013

Presentation for the webinar

at Living Schools Lab project (http://lsl.eun.org/)

for the European Schoolnet (http://www.eun.org/)

on 12th Dec 2013

Bastian Pelka

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the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use

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What are social media?

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What are social media?

Social media are not a new technology

Social media are a new communication style

incremental

shared

public

cooperative

Social media empower users to create, share and alter content

„User“ is everybody with an internet access

„content“ is everything digital: images, text, videos -> opinions!

„sharing“ is the opposit of „owning“

Social media are rather a new way of doing than a technology

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What is a social innovation?

„(...) intentional new configuration of social practice with the aim of

better solve societal challenges(...)“

(Howaldt / Schwarz 2010)

Distinguishes technological and social layer of innovation

Does not relate to being „good“ or „evil“

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How will social media change the labour market?

Social media will change the style of communication in the

„knowledge society“. This has begun to change

labour

leisure

education

…

intellectual work is shaped by social media based cooperation

„unfinished thoughts“ are debated and improved incrementally

Working styles and professional routines and occupations are

challenged

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Which competences will students need

in order to to use social media successfully?

Reflect your own role in a complex process

Learn to moderate/facilitate

Co-ordinate co-operation, motive a team

Accept feedback, give feedback

Learn to survive „publicity“

Be critical about sources, data privacy and software platforms

After all, social media require social skills, not IT skills!

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…and teachers?

Are often afraid of using social media…

…and sometimes forbidden

…and afraid of their students knowing it better.

…usually don‘t use social media in the classroom

Need to see the reason for using social media – it‘s not a reason in

itself

Need to see social media as a social innovation, not as a new

technology

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The „learn2teach by social web“ curriculum

L2T adresses teachers who have never used social media in the

classroom or at home.

It is a vocational training e-learning course with appr. 100 hours

workload.

It aims at the pedagogical level of social media:

How can school prepare students for a working life that is shaped by social

media?

How can school exploit the added pedagogical value of social media?

The curriculum provides inspiration for lessons, not guidance to use

technology.

It is designed by teachers – some of them had not used social media

before and speaks „from teachers for teachers“.

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The „learn2teach by social web“ curriculum

It builds on some convictions:

Pupils will learn the technology way themselfes. What school needs to

supply are media competences.

School is the best space to adress those competences, it should provide a

reflection space for the role of social media for working and leisure life.

You can not use social media in the classroom - nor prepare your students

for a reflected use - without doing it yourself.

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Social media in the classroom – some examples

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Let students do a

calculation in an online

shared spreadsheet

A teacher made use of

the „addict“ behaviour of

social networks: he

posted a new math

challenge every week –

his students checked his

math group every day!

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Let students interview

each other or „experts“ on

a video

Share those videos,

make a contest.

Link videos to

correspondent youtube

videos, create a group,

discuss them

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Let students do a roleplay

via twitter!

Form a hastag like

#Macbethlesson

Assign roles to students

and let them act on their

twitter accounts in their

roles

See what evolves – which

new interpretations you

get from.

Quite apart from the fun

value, students really did

have to understand the

text in detail to be able to

tweet.

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Some lessons learned

Students can profit from social media as learning environments

when they co-operate

Teachers need to bring „school“ and „reality“ into these

environments – work with clear names and set the rules!

Show borders between „sharing“ and „copy & pasting“

Understand social media as a new space – with old rules and

known challenges

Social media have a great power to motivate – and even empower

those who tend to be more silent.

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Sozialforschungsstelle DortmundZentrale wissenschaftliche Einrichtung

Social Media (and Shakespeare) in the Classroom.Why do they matter? And how?

Dr. Bastian Pelka


Presentation for the webinar

at Living Schoolslab project (http://lsl.eun.org/)

for the European Schoolnet (http://www.eun.org/)

on 12th Dec 2013

Bastian Pelka

http://lsl.eun.org/

http://www.eun.org/

Lsl webinar l2 t bastian pelka131126

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