Patrick Larkin
Principal - Burlington High School (MA)
My Blog - patrickmlarkin.com
Twitter - @bhsprincipal
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Social Media 101:
Tools For Administrators
Why do we need to embrace Social Media?
"In today’s digital learning culture, it’s less about staying ahead and more about moving forward as members of dynamic learning communities. Administrators convey a vision for technology infusion and ensure development of their own technology skills and those of others."
Why do we need to embrace Social Media?
"Students in the 21st century should have experience with and develop skills around technological tools used in the classroom and the world around them. Through this they will learn about technology and learn through technology. In addition, they must be able to select the most appropriate tools to address particular needs."
(From NCTE's Framework for 21st Century Curriculum and Assessment) 2007
Why do we need to embrace Social Media?
"Just as media and technology are integrated in school and life in the twenty-first century, skills related to media use (both critical analysis and production of media) are integrated throughout the standards.."
Why do we need to embrace Social Media?
"To promote student learning through the use of mobile learning devices and social media in instruction that further prepares students to be active, constructive participants in the highly connected world in which they already live and will soon work.."
(From NASSP Position Statement on Using Mobile and Social Technologies in school) 2011
This is why...
"For most of the twentieth century our educational system has been built on the assumption that teaching is necessary for learning to occur. Accordingly, education has been seen as a process of transferring information from a higher authority (the teacher) down to the student. This model, however, just can’t keep up with the rapid rate of change in the twenty-first century."
Thomas, Douglas (2011). A New Culture of Learning: Cultivating the Imagination for a World of Constant Change (Kindle Locations 321-323). CreateSpace. Kindle Edition.
This is why...
"People who are part of a network where they become better at something they love tend to stay."
�Shirky, Clay (2010). Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers into Collaborators (Kindle Locations 1337-1338). The Penguin Press. Kindle Edition. "
How to start...
Google Alerts - Track your own digital presence
Google Reader - Follow Blogs
How to use Google Reader Video Series
Diigo - Social Bookmarking
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Some great sites to follow
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First Ever Admin. Unconference
August 20th 8-12 at Burlington H.S.
We would like to take the best part of conferences, which in our opinion are the conversations between the attendees, and turn these into the focus of the conference. We will still have presentations but the process for setting up who presents will be more democratic and the presentations will be more interactive than a typical conference. We would like everyone to be expected to share what they know. We would like to run a conference for everyone interested in education.