Using Social Media in a Boston College Classroom (and what you can learn from it) Gerald C (Jerry) Kane, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Information Systems.
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Using Social Media in a Boston College Classroom (and what you can learn from it)
Gerald C (Jerry) Kane, Ph.D.Assistant Professor of Information SystemsCarroll School of ManagementBoston [email protected]
It’s not mainly about the tools, but the collaborative processes that they enable.
Example: Journal Editor attempting to replicate wikis in classroom.
•Good social media environments don’t just “happen.”
•It’s a competency that can be learned and taught.
Lesson 2) Learn when/how to trust the crowdNew Media Literacy (Jenkins 2008).
◦Crowd is good in some situations, not so good in others.
Need to become savvy consumers and creators of social media information.
Example: NML Assignments, Wikipedia◦Reliable information, but often incomplete.◦Quality does not equal relevance.◦“The crowd creates mostly crap.”◦Social structures still exist online