Social Media
Chris Shipley, Co-founder and Global Research Director for Guidewire Group was credited to have coined the term “social media”. Social media has steadily risen since July 2006. Social media is creative publishing techniques using the Internet to disseminate media for social interaction. Social media components consist of art, information, meme concepts; physical, electronic, verbal media; and community engagement, electronic broadcast or physical media such as print.
Ulysses High School students in Kansas were enrolled in a collaboration program. The program project purpose was designed to teach students how to integrate technology into classroom lesson plans. Students were paired with a teacher to redesign the lesson plan to incorporate technology. The 18-week course began by teaching students the technical skills needed to infuse technology into the curriculum. In addition the students were taught the education and leadership skills needed to create lesson plans that met academic standards.
Although the students had learn how to use technology there were challenges to come up with a way to present all their teacher’s subject. Finding a project to relate back to English was the most difficult. Art and foreign language subject projects had little difficulty. The lesson plan projects were successful and viewed by other teachers and students.
Despite the challenges students were faced with during the semester, everyone enjoyed the class and the new opportunities it provided. Students were expected to work independently and were given the creative freedom to present the lesson in their own way. The students were on their own to discover ideas, they learned how to implement techniques, and they learned from the processes.
During and after the course, the participating students researched, communicated and shared information via Internet, Wikis, YouTube, and Flickr. After the course project completion thoughts about the lesson were gathered by conducting a survey. The teaching approach falls into the connectivist and constructivist categories. The activities permitted individual users to network and learn with others globally and locally. The activities connected with others around the world sharing their opinions and examining others thinking with the world. Through the interactive process input from different sources created an atmosphere to unlearn old information, learn new information, and learn current information. The learners constructed personal knowledge from the experience.
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