what can social media aggregation contribute to advocating for education?
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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
going to tell YOUR story?
How are YOU