Issues with Social Media in the Classroom
Notetaker: Laura Micciche

Present: Molly Brayman, Pam Bach, Debbie Tenofsky, Scott Taylor, Olga Hart, Martha Sledge, Laura Micciche, Winnie Kaur, Mary Sefcik

Questions:

• Are people using different kinds of social media platforms in classrooms? Best practices? How to use instagram, twitter, etc.? What are your experiences? What are the possibilities? What concerns do we have?
• Do we want social media that’s already integrated in their lives? Or do we want something separate?
• How can we use what students are already engaged in to enhance classroom learning?
• How does information move between communities? How can we use it in class to good effect?

For more, see the pdf.

I’d like to attend (couldn’t lead) a session on classroom gamification using digital tools, building on some of the interesting work coming out of the Journal of Interactive Technology & Pedagogy and elsewhere (ie, Game Studies). Maybe a play session in which we make a game prototype…more broadly, though, would like to hear ideas on how to construct the whole classroom (not just the tools we use in it) as a gaming space and the benefits of doing so (i.e., Jesper Juul’s argument that games teach us how to fail, and this is useful to learning and growth — The Feeling of Failure).