Social Media in Social Studies: Engaging Students in their Medium

SOCIAL MEDIA IN SOCIAL STUDIES: ENGAGING STUDENTS IN THEIR MEDIUM BACKCHANNEL

Kelly Jones-Wagy, M.S. Social Studies Teacher, Overland High School Cherry Creek School District Aurora, Colorado kjones- Peggy O'Neill-Jones, Ed.D. Director, Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources, Western Region Metropolitan State University of Denver

 Examine ways which you can use social media to engage students in historical thinking and inquiry.  Learn to distinguish between social media forms and spaces and how they connect to learning  Leave with ideas for your classroom. Social Media in Social Studies: Engaging Students in their Medium

 Differentiate between short and long form social media.  Differentiate between social media tools and spaces.  Connect social media with primary and secondary source analysis.  Rethink traditional instructional strategies such as Think-Pair- Share in the context of social media  Explore social media as a strategic approach for differentiated learning.

Engagement: Engage the students where they are (on social media) to get them to where they need to be (learning target) Expression: Using social media as the format for the students to express their knowledge and/or understanding of a concept or topic

Instant Communication Time and Geography Independent Encourages Conversation Promotes Community

 What is your ultimate goal for the lesson?  How do you want your students to express their knowledge or understanding?  Using social media requires strategy.

 Use social media tools and spaces to engage social studies learners Long Form Social Media Short Form Social Media Audio Image Motion Text

Historical Thinking  Change Over Time  Context  Causality  Contingency  Complexity

Primary Source Analysis

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 Thinglink  Short Form | Post-It Notes  Example 

Think-pair-share

 Learning Goal-To have students brainstorm observations and inferences from a political cartoon.  Twitter  Short Form Text | Brainstorming

With a partner or a small group discuss what you observe (see) in this cartoon? Using your twitter account (if you don’t have one then find someone who does) Tweet: What do you see in this cartoon? make sure to use Editorial cartoon from the Detroit Journal, 1898

 Vine/Animoto  Short Form | Exit Ticket Example: Vine Six Second Shakespere  Example: Animoto 

 Windows Movie Maker-Long Form  Learning Target: For students to compile information into a single presentation that allows for synthesis, analysis, and drawing conclusions based on primary and secondary sources.  National History Day-McCarthy National History Day-McCarthy  Can be uploaded to social media sites or private school sites

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 Today’s Meet  com/SocialMedia_ CCSS2016 Kelly Jones-Wagy, M.A. kjones- Peggy O'Neill-Jones, Ed.D.