Using Social Media to Teach Geography
Published on Nov 21, 2015
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Interested in using social media photography and technology in your classroom, but don’t know how? Come learn about 3 digital applications you can use to help your students better understand the world.
This presentation will walk you through steps for classroom use and also provide sample lesson prompts.
Using Social Media to Teach Geography
Stacey Kerr, The University of Georgia, www.staceykerr.co
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Presentation Overview
- Teachers & Technology
- Why Digital Visuals?
- Applications in Action
- Tips for Lesson Integration
- Questions & Workshopping
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Teachers & Technology
- Rise of technology requirements/requirement to prepare technologically literate students
- National implementation of technology standards
Well-executed technology incorporation can “empower inquiry-based teaching practices in social studies classrooms” (Brush & Saye, 2009, p. 45)
the research literature examining the consistent lack of classroom technology implementation use has moved away from pointing to structural issues, such as lack of access to computers, to explain why teachers have not integrated technology in their practices. It has turned its focus instead to teacher characteristics that may predict or inhibit technology practices (Mueller, Wood, Willoughby, Ross, & Specht, 2008).
the research literature examining the consistent lack of classroom technology implementation use has moved away from pointing to structural issues, such as lack of access to computers, to explain why teachers have not integrated technology in their practices. It has turned its focus instead to teacher characteristics that may predict or inhibit technology practices (Mueller, Wood, Willoughby, Ross, & Specht, 2008).
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Iste Standards for Teachers
- Facilitate and inspire student learning and creativity
- Design and develop digital age learning experiences and assessments
- Model digital age work and learning
- Promote and model digital citizenship and responsibility
- Engage in professional growth and leadership
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Why (Digital) Visuals?
- Investigation of visuals/aesthetic objects in social studies instruction (Garrett and Kerr, forthcoming)
- Aesthetic experience (Dewey, 1934), aesthetic conflict (Meltzer, 2004), relational aesthetics (Bourraud, 2002)
Aesthetic experience: the task of “[restoring] continuity between the refined and intensified forms of experiences that are works of art and the everyday events, doings, sufferings that are universally recognized to constitute experience” (Dewey, 1934, p. 2).
conflict: aesthetic texts do not only evoke ambiguous thoughts about historical events or social contexts, they also simultaneously beckon us toward interior lives of uncertainty and ambiguity.
is the creation of a social circumstance
conflict: aesthetic texts do not only evoke ambiguous thoughts about historical events or social contexts, they also simultaneously beckon us toward interior lives of uncertainty and ambiguity.
is the creation of a social circumstance
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Why Digital Visuals?
- Easy to Access
- Timeliness
- Sheer Amount of Visuals
- Student Expertise/Interest in Creation and Viewing
- Opportunity to discuss digital authorship, ethics, and citizenship
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Why Digital Visuals?
- Easy to Access
- Timeliness
- Sheer Amount of Visuals
- Student Expertise/Interest on Creation and Viewing
- Opportunity to discuss digital authorship, ethics, and citizenship
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Applications in Action
- Applications that promote the use of visuals as well as the importance of place
- Use applications that draw upon students' already existing technology skills
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Snapchat
- Users take photos and videos and send them to a controlled list of contacts for a controlled amount of time
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Snapchat Stories
- New feature: users in alternating cities can choose to send their photos & videos to the "Our ____ Story"
- Snapchat then selects and curates a story that is available to all users to view
- http://bit.ly/snapchatstories
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- Mobile photo/video sharing platform
- Users post photos and videos for their followers to view and "like"
Photo by Leo Hidalgo (@yompyz)
- New search function allows users to look for photos taken and tagged in specific places
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Instagram Search of Places
Flickr
- Image and Video hosting website
- Includes group, discussion, and mapping functions
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Using Visuals for Teaching Geography
- Taking Photos
- Using Other's Photos
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Another Application for Consideration:
- *New* Periscope
- Live broadcasting from users all over the world
- Select where to watch by clicking on a red dot in different places across the world
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Periscope Homescreen Screenshot
Taking Photos: Photomissions
- Learn about a concept
- Find examples of that concept in real life
- Take and share photos of the concept (different method of knowledge representation)
- Review where photos were taken
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Using Other's Photos: VTS
- Visual Thinking Strategies
- Choose a compelling visual and ask: What's going on here? What makes you say that? What more can you find
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VTS Example
Using Other's Photos: VTS
- Or, try the "essential" questions of geography to interrogate a visual:
- What is where?
- Why there?
- Why should we care?
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