Elizabeth Losh, the Writing Director of the Humanities Core Course at U.C. Irvine, has these principles for using social media in the classroom:
The closer the connection to course content, the more valuable the use of social media We have to be mindful of the privacy of our students when we expose them to the public sphere We have to be conscious of the potential politics of academic labor (and this includes questions about faculty rewards) We need to model appropriately academic uses of social media: YouTube shown for scientific experiments, scientific blogs, etc. We need to stress connections between print media and electronic media: blogs that became books, video or interactive essays by academics, etc. We need to think about issues of authorship and appropriation We need to plan for discomfort when traditional roles and structures of classroom authority are disrupted We need to have clear criteria for grading and evaluating student work that uses digital media Click here for the original blog post.
The closer the connection to course content, the more valuable the use of social media We have to be mindful of the privacy of our students when we expose them to the public sphere We have to be conscious of the potential politics of academic labor (and this includes questions about faculty rewards) We need to model appropriately academic uses of social media: YouTube shown for scientific experiments, scientific blogs, etc. We need to stress connections between print media and electronic media: blogs that became books, video or interactive essays by academics, etc. We need to think about issues of authorship and appropriation We need to plan for discomfort when traditional roles and structures of classroom authority are disrupted We need to have clear criteria for grading and evaluating student work that uses digital media Click here for the original blog post.
