In one of the classes that I'm currently taking we were given the assignment of creating a lesson plan that uses social media. Cool. I hadn't created a lesson that would work with that, but I use it regularly to communicate with my students and their parents.
So, what did I do? I took a unit plan that I had been working on and made some tweaks to it that would allow for social media integration. In addition, this forced me to look at some of the ISTE (technology teaching standards) and how my unit plan would push kids to meet the requirements of those standards. For example, understanding the permanence of an online post is one of the standards, albeit paraphrased. Now, in this unit plan students will be creating blog posts that both respond to literature and invite discussion through comments made on blogs. The blogs, and related comments, need to be school appropriate and follow the structure of a blog, which is less stringent than other types of formal writing. Integrating this idea into the unit plan will definitely make an impact on how my classroom looks at discussions, as well as how my students- and I- will respond to one another.
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