1. Telegrams to Tweets: Social Media in Social Studies

2. Description Engage students in their medium.
Social Media participants interact with social media, i.e. Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube to teach students to think critically by analyzing social media as a primary source.

3. hello! WE ARE PEGGY O’NEILL-JONES, Ed. D. KELLY JONES-WAGY, M.A.
Western Region Director, Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources Program
KELLY JONES-WAGY, M.A.
Social Studies Teacher, Overland High School, Aurora, CO
We are here because think primary sources are powerful teaching tools and that primary source pedagogy can be applied to social media.

4. “
“This, [television] all this, is language and vocabulary the likes of which the world has never seen.” Robert McNamara, 1963
Kelly

5. Objectives
Learn to distinguish between media forms, traditional and social media channels and how they connect to learning.
Examine ways which you can use social media to engage students in historical thinking and inquiry.
Leave with ideas for using social media and primary sources to engage learners.
Pegggy

6. 1. Social Media
Social media is changing the way students interact with the world and the cognitive skills they need going forward.

7. Social Media: How we got here.
Change Over Time
Traditional Media
Interactive Media
Social Media
Peggy

8. 2. Traditional Media
Traditional media channels have assimilated into our everyday lives over the past hundred years and are as comfortable as opening the refrigerator.

9. Traditional Media Traditional Channels Medium Audio Radio Images
Newspapers, books, magazines
Motion Media
Video, Film, Animation
Text
Newspapers, Letters, Journals, Manuscripts

10. 3. Interactive Media
Traditional media allows the author to control the presentation.
Interactive media turns over some of that control to the audience.

11. Interactive Media
Interactive media is another way to tell a story that gives the audience varying degrees of control over content access and presentation.

12. 4. Social Media
Modes or platforms of communication utilizing digital technologies that encourage multi-party participation and promote a sense of shared online community. Examples include Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Google and other similar technologies.

13. Social Media Medium Traditional Channels Social Media Channels Audio
Radio
iTunes
Images
Newspapers, books, magazines
Instagram
Motion Media
Video, Film, Animation
YouTube
Text
Newspapers, Letters, Journals, Manuscripts
Twitter, Word Press
Peggt

14. SOCIAL MEDIA IN THE CONTEXT OF PRIMARY SOURCES
Kelly

15. Analyzing Primary Sources and Social Media
Critical Thinking
Analysis
Social Media

16. Social Media as a Primary Source
Social media posts are often artifacts or first- hand accounts, representative of the time within which they are written. As such, they are often primary sources
Tweet from Pakistan when Osama Bin Laden was captured.
reddit image of government shutdown
YouTube video SNL
Kelly

17. Differences Between Primary Sources and Social Media
First
Speed of information and context
Second
Historic primary sources have context and hindsight.
Social media still needs whatever context is available.
Third
Abundant, real-time information
Lack of filter, vetting, and editing between social media producers and consumers

18. Primary Source Analysis
Observe
Reflect
Question

19. Primary Source Analysis HISTORIC TELEGRAM

20. Primary Source Analysis SOCIAL MEDIA TWEET
Twitter
Death of Osama Bin Laden

21. What is different? What is the same?
DISCUSSION
What is different?
What is the same?

22. Primary Source Analysis
Observe
Reflect
Question

23. Primary Source Analysis HISTORIC IMAGE

24. Primary Source Analysis SOCIAL MEDIA IMAGE
Reddit

25. What is different? What is the same?
DISCUSSION
What is different?
What is the same?

26. Primary Source Analysis
Observe
Reflect
Question

27. Primary Source Analysis HISTORIC FILM

28. Primary Source Analysis SOCIAL MEDIA VIDEO

29. DISCUSSION What is different? What is the same?
How can you use this in your classroom?
What changes do you feel you need to make?

30. CONSUMERS OF SOCIAL MEDIA
Peggy

31. Social Media Consumers
Critical consumers seek out multiple perspectives and apply critical thinking skills such as
author intent and bias,
recognize their own perspective and bias
understand how that influences what they read and produce.

32. TEACHING IDEA
FILTER BUBBLES

33. Filter Bubbles http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8ofWFx525s

34. SOURCE CREDIBILITY http://bit.ly/2hSd2CF
TEACHING IDEA
SOURCE CREDIBILITY

35. PRODUCERS OF SOCIAL MEDIA

36. Social Media Producers
Social media can make anyone an instant producer using multiple media formats by posting images to Instagram, text to Facebook, or video to YouTube.
Social media footprints are never erased. They remain in cyberspace and in the case of Twitter, they are archived at the Library of Congress.

37. Let’s review some concepts
Social Media
Social media is changing the way students interact with the world and the cognitive skills they need going forward.
Media Evolution
Traditional to interactive to social media.
Primary Sources
Social media posts are often artifacts or first-hand accounts, representative of the time within which they are written. As such, they are often primary source
Historic v. Current
Historic primary sources have context and hindsight.
Social media primary sources are abundant and real-time.
Often lacks filter, vetting, and editing.
Consumers
Critical social media consumers
apply critical thinking skills before they accept the information.
Producers
Critical social media producers seek out multiple perspectives and apply critical thinking skills before they post.
Peggy

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39. Citations
Abadie, A. C. (Ed.). (1903). Emigrants [i.e. immigrants] landing at Ellis Island. United States: Thomas A. Edison, Inc.
Athar, S. (2011, May 1). Twitter. Retrieved from
Hernandez, B. A. (2011, May 1). Timeline: how news of Osama Bin Laden’s death unfolded on twitter. Retrieved from
reddit. (2013). Please Open the Government. Retrieved from
Saturday Night Live. (2017, February 5). Melissa McCarthy Channels Sean Spicer on SNL. Retrieved from
Waples, Karen. Questions for Media Websites. (personal communication, August 2014)
Zimdars, M. (2016, November 18). False, Misleading, Clickbait-y, and/or Satirical “News” Sources. Retrieved from
(1939) Announcing state of war with Germany. England London, Sept. 7. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress,

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