Slides for workshop on developing students' professional identities at the Association for the Teaching of Psychology conference at Loughborough University, 2014. Based on collaborative work with Birkdale School, Sheffield

1. Jenna Condie
Keith Brook
helping students
to develop
professional
online identities
Picture from #salfordpsych @JamieRegano with @abzvic

2. today’s workshop – sharing experiences,
creating new collaborations
collaboration – social media awareness
training for sixth form students
@ last year’s conference:
Social media for learning and employability
Flickr: Just Ard

3. 1. how do your students
use social media?

4. we asked
Birkdale students…

5. we also asked
them why…
Silence
Because
everyone else is
Keep in touch/
in the loop

6. Flickr:AhmadHammoud
“The choosing, deciding, shaping
human being who aspires to be
the author of his or her own life,
the creator of an individual
identity” as “the central
character of our time”
(Beck & Beck-Gernsheim,
2001, p 22–23)
identity

7. 2. why should educators get
involved?

8. Applications for
work and
further study
increasing importance of
online presence
Flickr: DonkeyHotey
in a good way!!!

9. digital literacies
“And many high-status opportunities - from
higher education to new forms of employment
- expect people to be media literate and
technologically advanced. It behoves all of us
to move past assumptions about today’s
youth. Both adults and youth need to develop
media literacy and technological skills to be
active participants in our information
society. Learning is a lifelong process”
(Boyd, 2014, p. 198).

10. • Danah Boyd (2014) It’s Complicated: The social
lives of networked teens. Pdf here
because it’s complicated
“Teens find social media appealing because it
allows them access to their friends and provides
an opportunity to be a part of a broader public
world while still situated physically in their
bedrooms. Through social media, they build
networks of people and information. As a result,
they both participate in and help create
networked publics”.
(Boyd, 2014, p. 201).

11. digital
citizenship
Flickr: Dan Callahan

12. 3. how can we support student
reflection on social media use?

13. A good place
to start?

14. creating professional
audiences
can we connect our students?

15. other ideas

16. Jenna Condie
Keith Brook
helping students
to develop
professional
online identities
Picture from #salfordpsych @JamieRegano with @abzvic