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Changing the learning landscapeChanging the learning landscape
Learner engagement through social media
Changing the learning landscapeChanging the learning landscape
Your ideas
• Tweetchats with
professionals
• Virtual clinical practice
• Facebook discussion
• Peer mentoring
• Storify
• Social bookmarking
• Private social networks
• Project wikis
• Group mind mapping
• RSS feeds
• Reflective blogging
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Key principles of student engagement
Students…
1. engage in their own learning
2. feel part of a community
3. are partners shaping the direction of learning
4. have contribution that is valued and validated
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How does social media engage?
• Creates wider networks and dialogue
• Personalises learning for own interests
• User-generated: visibility, feedback and active
learning
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Engaging in their own learning• Engage with other perceptions to inform our own
• Space for reflection and feedback
• Leadership and participative opportunities
– Research-led teaching to engage with the direction of
the field
– Peer mentoring
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Becoming part of a community• Support networks, particularly on placement
• Space for dialogue – eg. SWSCM Twitter
• Encourage them to be community architects
– Peer to peer interaction
– Ownership over tools of engagement
• Enter a professional community
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Shaping learning and valuing contributions
• Responsible for the agenda of learning
• Reflect on how they learn
• Demonstrate impact of contributions
• Create momentum for involvement
Changing the learning landscapeChanging the learning landscape
Key principles of student engagement
Students…
1. engage in their own learning
2. feel part of a community
3. are partners shaping the direction of learning
4. have contribution that is valued and validated
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Discussion
Think of a social media initiative you or your peers
have used in teaching. How could barriers be mitigated
to improve student engagement with them?
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Discussion: your ideas
• What are the intended learning and engagement
outcomes?
• Will students be creators and guide direction?
– How will this be recognised and supported?
• How can this initiative be integrated with existing
teaching practices?
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Keys to engaging students
• Cascade practice from peer to peer
• Recognise and interact with student contributions
• Build networks beyond institution
• Any tool used should be convenient for students
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Further resources
• Social Work/Social Care and Media Tweetchats @SWSCmedia
• HEA report: social media in social work teaching• Mobile Social Work magazine: ‘ideas, innovations
and apps for social work in the age of smartphones and social media’