Social media tools, along with handheld technologies such as smartphones and tablets, continue to push educational practice and how schools operate towards a 24-7, always-on, connected, digital environment. Join David Jakes for an important consideration of the questions surrounding the development and deployment of frameworks to support the effective school use of mobile and social media technologies. Develop an understanding of policies, guidelines, and recommendations that you can use to effectively position your school to utilize social media and leverage student-owned technology.

Session:

The Introduction:

The New Technology Landscape (social media, digital texts, student devices, emergence of social media sites, new venues for learning)

Session resources at davidjakes.me

Your students and their experience...

My experience | A context for my beliefs

Your experience? The experience of your school?

Then, for your consideration:

Reality vs vision

What is your current reality in your school and what is your vision for learning? That drives everything.

Your tools vs. their tools

What do you have? And what do they have? How do you know? Where are your gaps?

Developing frameworks

Do you need scaffolds? If so, what do they look like? What is the relationship between recommendations, expectations, guidelines, and policy?

Social Media

What is social media?
Why should you use it? Should you use it? What are the affordances specifically relating to learning? Is that important?
Who will develop guidelines?
What do guidelines look like?
Social means social, or does it? | Who is in charge? Who contributes, comments, monitors, how, and when? How is this use communicated with stakeholders? What happens when things get said that you don't like? Who can and should you engage with? Do you have a transparent public statement that communicates your perspectives?
The domains of social media use: personal, individual and school related, clubs/activities/athletics and school and district use.
Will you help students develop an academic footprint online? Are you responsible for teaching...social media?

Student-Owned Devices

The intent? What does it look like? Considerations for guidelines.

How to Prepare Your School

Leadership preparation and communication to stakeholders

General Resources:

The CMO's Guide to Social Media | CMO.com

Center for Social Media | Making media matter

Social Media: Understanding the Conversations Below the Surface | presentation at Slideshare.net, introducing the fundamentals of social media.

Acceptable Use Policies in Web 2.0 & Mobile Era | CoSN

Updating and Upgrading our Schools Media and Publishing Release | Sylvia Tolisano

Making the Case for Social Media in Schools | Mashable

Measuring the Impact of Social Media efforts | Chris Adams

The Anatomy of a Social Media Policy | Social Media Explorer

Social Media Policy for Schools | presentation at Slideshare.net from Oxiem

Social Media Infographics

Social Conversation | Avi Joseph, a great source of interesting infographics

How Social Media is Changing the Education Industry | Penn Olson

Are We Too Obsessed with Facebook? | Mashable.ca

The Winners & Losers of Social Networking | Mashable

65 Terrific Social Media Infographics | Social Media Today

Is Social Media Ruining Students | Online Education

Examples of Social Media Policy/Guidelines/Frameworks

Online Database of Social Media Policy | policies from a wide ranging of organizations, from the American Red Cross, to the Ford Motor Company, to the Mayo Clinic.

Social Media Policy of 113 Organizations | Social Media Today

15 University Social Media Policies | Amanda Vandervort

More Guidelines of Organizations | Social Media Toolkit

U.S. Army Social Media Handbook 2011 | MediaSnackers

Social Media Guidelines for Schools (podcast) | Wes Fryer

Littleton Public School discussion on the use of social media

The Real Life Social Network | Teachers friending students? OK, but go through this slidedeck, from Paul Adams

Social Mobile Learning: Cell Phones and Mobile Device Resources

Leadership for Mobile Learning | CoSN

Leadership for Mobile Learning | Lucy Gray

Mobile Learning: 21st Century Tools for 21st Century Schools | ISTE Mobile Learning SIG

Teens and Mobile Phones | PEW Internet