OLTD 506 - Social Media
OLTD Learning Outcome:
Provide a digital document, artifact, or presentation that demonstrates your summative key course learnings, insights, ideas, and achievements with digital documentation.
Evidence to support outcome: Social Media & Social Networking, Prezi
Reflection to Support Evidence:
To illustrate this learning outcome for OLTD 506, I chose to create a Prezi mapping my journey through the ins and outs of social media. It was fascinating to reflect on how the critical issues involved migrated from being fairly unknown and untrusted to a more open mind on the potential value and applicability to my teaching practice.
As the Prezi shows, I did not enter this particular course with a great deal of enthusiasm. Rather, I had quite a hard time reconciling my experiences as a teacher and as a principal to see how social media tools could be a benefit in a school environment. The most common causal agent of discipline problems in recent years for me seemed to be rooted in some aspect of social media, be that Facebook, or Instagram, etc. To get myself to a place where I could see the expanding potential for using social media tools and the resultant social networks within a teacher’s lesson planning required considerable research. Perhaps the most amazing discovery was that the single largest support for my own learning journey within the OLTD program has come through many of the various things I was skeptical about. Simply building a Personal Learning Network with the members of this cohort and the instructors in this program using G+ Communities, Hangouts, Blogging, and so on, has moved my skepticism way down in the list of things I let bother me.
This particular outcome proved to be quite useful to me for my own professional growth. It reminded me why I value the professional quality of reflection in all my hiring and evaluation of teaching staff. If we reflect on what our practice is in the context of what we happen to be learning about, we can only improve at the task of teaching. This outcome is designed to encourage deeper reflection on teaching and learning. By focusing on creating an artifact to show the progression of my learning, I was able to clinically review my biases against expectations of the course and make what I deemed necessary changes in praxis. We should do this for our own professional and pedagogical growth as well as provide similar opportunities for our students on an on-going basis.
OLTD Learning Outcome:
Develop understanding of functional contexts & constraints, employment considerations, privacy tensions, BC legal, school policies/procedures, and professional ethics.
Evidence to support outcome: Proposal for a District Digital Citizenship Framework
Reflection to Support Evidence:
In order to show our learning for OLTD 506, we needed to come up with a project that showed we understood how social media and social networking can be used in our schools as positive teaching tools. I chose to use my major project to illustrate this outcome. I wrote a proposal for my District to create a working Digital Citizenship Framework as a way to guide the development of all online learning in our schools.
As was discussed in my previous reflection, although I have come a long way is seeing these tools through a broader lens in a more positive light, I am still quite new to using these tools for myself. What I did see was a way to alleviate the mistrust and negative censorship that occurs with social media in schools by creating this proposal for Digital Citizenship. The intent was to look at how the negative sanctions around personal and professional use of the internet that have been developed an put into policy in most school jurisdictions are not only narrow in focus, but actually retard the growth of 21st Century Learning skills. We cannot keep using policies that have not changed since the introduction of the internet into our schools. Technology has far surpassed those policies and the exposure to this technology is no longer limited by connectivity and expense. We need to teach our students how to be responsible digital citizens as well as learn ourselves. I think that the development of frameworks describing how to be positive digital citizens is what all districts need to explore.
This particular learning outcome had me explore a wide continuum of issues and concerns regarding social media and its use in our schools as a learning tools. The amount of current research into this area is, in some ways, mind numbing, yet remarkable in how many people and organizations have wrestled with the same problems. What is evident is that we all agree that we need tools to help us direct our students and professional staff in how to be positive, respectful, and ethical residents in the online worlds we are constantly accessing. I will certainly be able to pursue this with my supervisors and be able to discuss with my staff the nature of what constitutes digital citizenship.
Provide a digital document, artifact, or presentation that demonstrates your summative key course learnings, insights, ideas, and achievements with digital documentation.
Evidence to support outcome: Social Media & Social Networking, Prezi
Reflection to Support Evidence:
To illustrate this learning outcome for OLTD 506, I chose to create a Prezi mapping my journey through the ins and outs of social media. It was fascinating to reflect on how the critical issues involved migrated from being fairly unknown and untrusted to a more open mind on the potential value and applicability to my teaching practice.
As the Prezi shows, I did not enter this particular course with a great deal of enthusiasm. Rather, I had quite a hard time reconciling my experiences as a teacher and as a principal to see how social media tools could be a benefit in a school environment. The most common causal agent of discipline problems in recent years for me seemed to be rooted in some aspect of social media, be that Facebook, or Instagram, etc. To get myself to a place where I could see the expanding potential for using social media tools and the resultant social networks within a teacher’s lesson planning required considerable research. Perhaps the most amazing discovery was that the single largest support for my own learning journey within the OLTD program has come through many of the various things I was skeptical about. Simply building a Personal Learning Network with the members of this cohort and the instructors in this program using G+ Communities, Hangouts, Blogging, and so on, has moved my skepticism way down in the list of things I let bother me.
This particular outcome proved to be quite useful to me for my own professional growth. It reminded me why I value the professional quality of reflection in all my hiring and evaluation of teaching staff. If we reflect on what our practice is in the context of what we happen to be learning about, we can only improve at the task of teaching. This outcome is designed to encourage deeper reflection on teaching and learning. By focusing on creating an artifact to show the progression of my learning, I was able to clinically review my biases against expectations of the course and make what I deemed necessary changes in praxis. We should do this for our own professional and pedagogical growth as well as provide similar opportunities for our students on an on-going basis.
OLTD Learning Outcome:
Develop understanding of functional contexts & constraints, employment considerations, privacy tensions, BC legal, school policies/procedures, and professional ethics.
Evidence to support outcome: Proposal for a District Digital Citizenship Framework
Reflection to Support Evidence:
In order to show our learning for OLTD 506, we needed to come up with a project that showed we understood how social media and social networking can be used in our schools as positive teaching tools. I chose to use my major project to illustrate this outcome. I wrote a proposal for my District to create a working Digital Citizenship Framework as a way to guide the development of all online learning in our schools.
As was discussed in my previous reflection, although I have come a long way is seeing these tools through a broader lens in a more positive light, I am still quite new to using these tools for myself. What I did see was a way to alleviate the mistrust and negative censorship that occurs with social media in schools by creating this proposal for Digital Citizenship. The intent was to look at how the negative sanctions around personal and professional use of the internet that have been developed an put into policy in most school jurisdictions are not only narrow in focus, but actually retard the growth of 21st Century Learning skills. We cannot keep using policies that have not changed since the introduction of the internet into our schools. Technology has far surpassed those policies and the exposure to this technology is no longer limited by connectivity and expense. We need to teach our students how to be responsible digital citizens as well as learn ourselves. I think that the development of frameworks describing how to be positive digital citizens is what all districts need to explore.
This particular learning outcome had me explore a wide continuum of issues and concerns regarding social media and its use in our schools as a learning tools. The amount of current research into this area is, in some ways, mind numbing, yet remarkable in how many people and organizations have wrestled with the same problems. What is evident is that we all agree that we need tools to help us direct our students and professional staff in how to be positive, respectful, and ethical residents in the online worlds we are constantly accessing. I will certainly be able to pursue this with my supervisors and be able to discuss with my staff the nature of what constitutes digital citizenship.