Creativity, Collaboration and innovation with social media
New technologies provide an excess of routes for finding and using information for communication and collaboration (Conole, 2012). Social media’s capacity to enable students to connect, share and collaborate has made its use increasingly common in educational domains (Bosman & Zagenczyk, 2011). It provides a range of new and exciting opportunities for teaching and learning. Levinson (2010) states that as the conversation about the digital divide shifts from questions about technological access to ones concerning participation; educators must work to ensure that every young person has access to the tools, skills and experiences needed to join in this new participatory culture.
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The Australian Curriculum’s ICT Capabilities state that students need to develop information creation and presentation, problem solving, decision-making, communication, creative expression, and empirical reasoning, all of which can be gained from the appropriate use of social media.
De Freitas and Conole (2010) argue that the tools being used by students have an emphasis on the participatory and communicative capabilities. This enables content and information to be distributed in many ways, hence the greater control for the individual as producer and user. De Freitas and Conole (2010) share that these practices enable the shifting of learning from a focus on individual to social learning.
The below video, William J Ward outlines how he has incorporated social media into the classroom. This includes the use of blogging by students and how this experience includes a wide community of people. He discusses the mind shift needed so that social media can be incorporated into the everyday classroom.
De Freitas and Conole (2010) argue that the tools being used by students have an emphasis on the participatory and communicative capabilities. This enables content and information to be distributed in many ways, hence the greater control for the individual as producer and user. De Freitas and Conole (2010) share that these practices enable the shifting of learning from a focus on individual to social learning.
The below video, William J Ward outlines how he has incorporated social media into the classroom. This includes the use of blogging by students and how this experience includes a wide community of people. He discusses the mind shift needed so that social media can be incorporated into the everyday classroom.
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