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Social learning networks promote student engagement, global awareness
The social learning network is accessible online or using any mobile device, including Android devices and iPhones, and has special institutional features for schools and districts that can be accessed free of charge by administrators.
Students do not need to provide eMail addresses to sign up. Teachers give students access codes, and students can either put their first and last names into the system or go by student identification numbers instead.
Remix Learning provides a customizable cloud-based social learning network for primary and secondary education. It can be implemented quickly in schools and after-school programs. Subscriptions are available to schools, nonprofit organizations, museums, libraries, and cultural institutions—anywhere that youth are engaged.
The iRemix platform, currently in beta testing, is a hosted, cloud-based customizable social learning platform affordably available to schools, institutions, and organizations seeking to safely and securely connect children and adolescents with curriculum, extended learning, and mentorship opportunities.
Sophia is a free social teaching and learning platform that offers academic content to anyone, anywhere free of charge. The website, which has been described as a mashup of Facebook, Wikipedia, and YouTube focused solely on education, also lets educators supplement their teaching methods with tools to create a customized learning environment in a private or public setting.
Sophia uses Web 2.0 tools and methods to create a credible, crowd-sourced platform where information is organized in “learning packets”—bite-sized tutorials tagged to specific academic subjects or topics, including standards-aligned objectives. The packets can be created by anyone, anywhere using text, images, presentations, video, audio, and more. Packets are rated for quality and evaluated for academic soundness by users and experts within the community. Educators can use these packets to supplement instruction, and they can create an invitation-only environment where members can share content and ideas, ask questions, and get answers within their own learning community.
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plivingston
November 1, 2012 at 3:58 pm
Thanks for a fascinating article. Social learning and social media is rapidly becoming an area we must consider for teaching and learning – because of how it facilitates communication, collaboration, creativity and other 21st Century Skills. It’s also so that we as educators can give our students safe areas to learn digital citizenship in our new flattened world.
As an author, writer, adjunct professor, and as the product manager of a safe social learning product (http://www.schoolwires.nimbus) I am pleased to see these questions and ideas reaching more educators.
crissy
November 1, 2012 at 9:15 pm
Love hearing what Troy and his students are doing as they expand the boundaries of global learning and connect and collaborate for authentic learning.
When discussing social learning we can’t forget to mention My Big Campus. My Big Campus is a social learning platform that most educators prefer because of its numerous security features and pre-embedded resource library (just to name a few). And now with My Big Campus Bundles, teachers (and students) can group resources, projects, videos & assignments together and categorize bundles according to subject, topic and standard. One of the coolest things about My Big Campus bundles is how they can be shared with all My Big Campus users—not just those in the same school or district. http://www.mybigcampus.com
jessica_ruby
November 3, 2012 at 5:15 am
Great Post Indeed! Thanks a lot for sharing your teaching experience with your readers. I totally agree with you that technology in today’s generation plays an important role in every man’s life. No man can now think life without technology.Therefore, with the help of technology, individuals are excelling in their field. They are now getting a chance to learn, communicate and educate themselves in the right manner.