The prevalence and widespread use of social media tools make possible a seemingly endless array of ways to share ideas and build new knowledge. During this keynote presentation on March 29, 2013 at Western Illinois University Symposium on Teaching, Research, and Creative Activities by Jason Rhode, we considered how students today are using social media in their daily lives and explore together how social media can be used to actively engage students in the learning process, both in and outside the classroom. A social teaching framework was shared as well as principles and best practices for leveraging social media in teaching and learning. Participants were encouraged to bring their own device to actively participate in the conversation! Online and mobile versions of the handout accompanying the slides is available at http://j.mp/socialteaching Session hashtag, for tweeting or other social media uses: #socialteaching

1. Social Teaching Strategies
for Engaging Today’s
Active Learner
j.mp/socialteaching
Jason Rhode, Ph.D.
jrhode@niu.edu
@jrhode

3. #socialteaching

4. Pull Out Your Cell Phone!
Send text message
@socialteaching to
23559 to participate
in polls and
conversations via text
during the keynote

5. #socialteaching

7. Learning Goes Digital

8. Open your Laptops to Page 3

9. Students in our classrooms today...

10. theiao
100k students
195 institutions

12. Technology Critical to Success

13. 66%
percentage of students that said they were prepared to
use needed technology when entering college

14. 75%
percentage of students that said technology helped them
achieve their academic outcomes

15. Moving Beyond Platforms and Devices

16. Student Device
Ownership

17. Importance of Devices
to Academic Success

18. Laptop Ownership
Increase in students
who own a laptop
83% 2004 to 2012

19. Important to Do from
a Mobile Device

20. Percentage of Students
Using Smartphones

21. Learning Environments and Engaging
Students with Technology

22. 54%
percentage of students that said they are more actively
involved in courses that use technology

23. 74%
percentage of students that said they had taken at least one
course that includes online components?

24. 70%
percentage of students that said they learned most in
blended learning environments

25. 16%
percentage of students that said they skip classes when
course lectures are available online

26. Growth in
Online Learning
107%
15%
31%
In 2008, 15% of students said
they took a class completely
online;
in 2012, 31% did

27. Modes of Communication

28. 60%
percentage of students that said it’s important to have an
online forum to communicate with other students

29. 40%
percentage of students that said they are comfortable
connecting on social networks with past professors

30. 57%
percentage of students that said they like to keep academic
and social lives separate

31. Students Wished Faculty
Communicated More Using

32. Summary of 2012 Students and
Technology Survey

33. Students today...mobile

34. 78%
of 12-17 year-olds
own cell phones
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35. 50% of teens send
50 or more
text messages a day
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36. 30% of teens send
100 or more
text messages a day
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37. 99.8%
of college students
own one or more
cell phones
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39. 97%
of students use
text messaging
as their main form of
communication
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40. 31%
of U.S. adults prefer
to be reached by
text message
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41. Pull Out Your Cell Phone!
Send text message
@socialteaching to
23559 to participate
in polls and
conversations via
text

42. Framework

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44. Tools
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“Web 2.0 applications that have the
potential to increase interactions among
individuals through creating and sharing”
(Joosten, 2012)

46. image credit: NIU Media Service Image Library
social learning - “learning that takes place at a
wider scale than individual or group
learning...through social interaction” (Wikipedia)

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teaching teaching
social learning - “learning that takes place at a
wider scale than individual or group
learning...through social interaction” ~ @jrhode
teaching

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Connections

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Content &
Communications

51. Core Interaction
Components

54. Socially
Engaged
Instruction

55. engaging students in
collaborations,
connecting concepts
with real-world
applications

56. presenting concepts in
meaningful and
memorable ways,
guiding the
learning
process

57. pulling together,
reviewing,
and selecting
content, resources,
and conversations

58. fostering social presence,
providing timely
information, guiding the
learning process

59. engaging students presenting concepts
in collaborations, in meaningful and
connecting memorable ways,
concepts with guiding the
real-world learning
applications process
Socially
Engaged
Instruction
fostering social
pulling together,
presence,
reviewing,
providing timely
and selecting
information,
content, resources,
guiding the
and conversations
learning process

60. Examples

61. Video Sharing

62. Video Greeting

63. Video Tour of Course

64. How-To’s

65. Resource Sharing

66. Twitter Chats

67. Groups Using Wiki

68. Blogging

69. Photo Group

70. Shared Google Map

71. Suggested Strategies

72. http://www.onlinecolleges.net/2012/07/26/a-teachers-guide-to-social-media/

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Ask students what social media they are using

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Consider line between personal and academic
social media

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Encourage students to take active role in shaping
their “digital footprint”

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Create blog or site you fully-control as focal point
of your digital footprint

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Provide assignment options that include social
media (digital photos, video, bookmarks, texting)

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Offer students opportunity to dialogue outside
“walls” of the course

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Embrace fact that students are bringing mobile
devices to class

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Encourage students to reflect upon their learning
experiences and share where appropriate

81. Suggested Resources

82. Suggested Books

83. jasonrhode.com/twitterinedu

84. @jrhode
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