Mr. Tabay

Social Media in the Classroom Social media use in the classroom allows students to engage in real time activities.  It allows them to take their learning further then just the traditional classroom activity.  It also allows them to be engage in activities in which the currently do.  Every student Snaps, Tweets, Instagrams, or Facebooks something, why not use this an extension.  The idea of meeting students where they are in terms of their use of technology in education. I also see it as a great way for students to be able to connect with others around the country or world that share similar experiences with them. I learned that all the lessons that use Social Media are engaging and takes the learning further than what I could do if I did not incorporate the use in my classroom.  The ability for students to have others peer review their work, help give suggestions, or even build relationships with others is the power that social media has in education.

Digital Content Curation What is it? Adding your personal touch to a handpicked set of shared information.  The information is focused on specific set of information that you chose to share with your followers or fans.  What its not? Digital Content Curaiton is often misunderstood.  Now that we know what it is, I feel it is useful to define what it is not.  Digital content curation is not something that is done through automation or just retweeting or reposting information from another site.  A tweet, a pin, or blog post that is interesting you share is not truly content curation (Ayette, 2019) Checklist for Curation 1. Reliability-How accurate is the information you are select to share?  This has become a very important topic with the explosion of blogging and micro-blogging sites.  Is the information you want to share can be trusted?  The best for this to happen is for you the individual to perform basic tasks before you share.  B...