The document discusses the benefits of using social media for education. It notes that social media can increase student engagement and interest, while allowing students to take more control over their education. Specific social media tools mentioned that can be used for education include wikis, blogs, videos, Twitter chats, slideshares and podcasts. The document also examines how faculty are currently using social media, with over 40% assigning social media as part of coursework. However, concerns remain around privacy and maintaining discussion spaces. Overall, social media is seen as a way to enhance learning through greater interaction and sharing of information.

1. Social Media for
Education
#MANSHIP4002
LECTURE 20

2. Social Media for Education
“What are the benefits of social
media to students? There are plenty:
greater student engagement, greater
student interest, students taking more
control of their education and more
responsibility for their education.”
– Howard Rheingold

3. Why should you (the student)
blog?
“They say that it’s one of the best things you can
put on your resume, that you have a blog that
you update at least twice a week. It’s living,
breathing proof that you know what you’re
talking about and that you have enough
passion to write about it that you’ll do it for free.”
– Jimmy Bean, Senior Communications Major,
California State University-Fullerton

4. Social Media Tools for
Education
 Wikis
 Blog posts (student blogs and class blogs)
 Videos (YouTube, Vimeo, etc.)
 Twitter chats, Google hangouts
 SlideShare (for lecture ppts)
 Storify (to collect class tweets in one place)
 Podcasts
 Video games! (minecraft, Second Life)

5. Faculty Awareness of Social Media
http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED535130.pdf

6. Faculty Use of Social Media
 “The evidence is also
strong for the level of
integration of social
media into course
assignments. Over 40%
of faculty have assigned
students to read or view
social media as part of
course assignments,
and 20% have assigned
students to comment on
or post to social media
sites.”
http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED535130.pdf

7. http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED535130.pdf

8. http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED535130.pdf

9. Faculty use of social media
 How else do you think faculty
could use social media that
would help you in your classes,
help you learn?
Tweet suggestions using
#Manship4002 / #TeachSocial

10. Barriers to the use of social
media by Faculty
http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED535130.pdf
http://www.edudemic.com/social-media-in-education/

11. Social Media in the Classroom
 Only 41 percent of faculty use social media in the classroom,
but this use continues to experience steady year-to-year
growth
 Faculty are sophisticated consumers of social media. They
match different sites to their varying personal, professional,
and teaching needs
 Concerns remain about privacy, maintaining the class as a
private space for free and open discussion, and the integrity
of student submissions
 Most faculty agree that “the interactive nature of online and
mobile technologies create better learning environments”
and that digital communication has increased
communication with students
 Faculty believe that online and mobile technologies can be
distracting, and that they have resulted in longer working
hours and more stress
http://www.edudemic.com/social-
media-in-education/

12. http://www.edudemic.com/social-media-in-education/

13. How Students Use Social Media
1. How do our students currently use social media?
2. Do they want to use social media to support learning?
3. Do they believe that social media can enhance their learning experience?
http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/78491/1/78491.pdf

14. http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/78491/1/78491.pdf

15. Teaching in Higher Ed:
http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/78491/1/78491.pdf
“The time is ripe to take managed risk and explore creative
methods of learning and teaching. […]
The benefits highlighted within the study can be explained as:
• Increasing student motivation and engagement with course
material
• Increasing student-to-student collaboration
• Enhanced interaction between the student and the
lecturer/teacher
• Accelerated data and information sharing
• Removes barriers to self-expression and contribution
• Provides students with 21st Century skills which could aide their
employability and increase levels of satisfaction.”

16. Who is using social media, and
how are they using it?
http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED525056.pdf

17. Who is using social media, and
how are they using it?
http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED525056.pdf

18. Who is using social media, and
how are they using it?
http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED525056.pdf

19. Who is using social media, and
how are they using it?
http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED525056.pdf

20. Who is using social media, and
how are they using it?
http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED525056.pdf

21. Who is using social
media, and how
are they using it?
http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED525056.pdf

22. So?
 Young adults and teens are online (many via
mobile devices); they share content online,
search for information online (ex. Health
information), get their news online, and use social
networking sites like Twitter.
 SO shouldn’t faculty and other educators make
efforts to engage students online?

23. Social Media for Education
 Tweeting
#SciStuChat

24. https://student.societyforscience.org/blog/eureka-
lab/students-find-science-answers-through-twitter

26. Social Media for Education
 How could we translate the use of
social media for education into
educational PR initiatives?

27. Blog
Round-ups

28. Health Education
 “Evidence about social media’s impact on health
knowledge, behavior, and outcomes shows these tools can
be effective in meeting individual and population health
needs.”
 Interactive health communication applications have been
shown to improve users’ knowledge, social supports, health
behaviors and clinical outcomes.
 Feeling empowered in decision making about one’s health
 We can tailor the message to the audience via social media
 Health promotion messages through social networks may be
more effective than those delivered via mass communication
http://hpp.sagepub.com/content/14/1/15.short

29. http://hpp.sagepub.com/content/14/1/15.short
Games – very interactive
Community Support

30. http://hpp.sagepub.com/content/14/1/15.short
Video

31. Telling a Story with Tweets
https://storify.com/

32. https://storify.com/fromthelabbench/research-
communications-campaigns-and-social-media

33. Search for Tweets by user,
hashtag, etc. – drag and
drop into story.
Insert URL’s for websites,
blogs, images, etc.