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In your teaching, you can also include Facebook Pages in your list of recommended websitesthat you provide students. The chart below includes examples of Pages relevant to learning.Facebook Pages for Educators● National Geographic Education● British Museum● Girl Up (UN Foundation)● NASA● Smithsonian Institution● Youth Olympic Games● Library of Congress● Musee du Louvre● PBS Kids● Kabul Museum● Discovery Channel GlobalEducation● Scholastic Teachers● Facebook in Education● Encyclopaedia Britannica● Facebook for Educatorshttp://www.facebook.com/natgeoeducationhttp://www.facebook.com/britishmuseumhttp://www.facebook.com/girluphttp://www.facebook.com/natgeoeducationhttp://www.facebook.com/SmithsonianInstitutionhttp://www.facebook.com/youtholympicgameshttp://www.facebook.com/libraryofcongresshttp://www.facebook.com/museedulouvrehttp://www.facebook.com/PBSKIDShttp://www.facebook.com/pages/Kabul-Museum/317714056516http://www.facebook.com/DCGEPhttp://www.facebook.com/ScholasticTeachershttp://www.facebook.com/educationhttp://www.facebook.com/BRITANNICAhttp://www.facebook.com/fb4educatorsAs you can see, Pages can open new opportunities for teaching and learning. Like Groups, thecontent from Pages can reach your students when they are outside the classroom. Most youngpeople are already accessing Facebook using their mobile phones when not at school. Now thelearning opportunity can reach them where they live and play online. This is the focus of thenext section.Page 14 of 23
6. Embrace the Digital, Social, Mobile and “Always-On” LearningStyles of 21st Century StudentsFacebook can help educators embrace the digital, social, mobile, and “always-on” learningstyles of today’s students. Mobile technology has changed the landscape.According to a Pew Internet study, 75% of American teens have a mobile phone(http://bit.ly/ggMkqf). This shift in how teens connect to the Internet provides teachers with anopportunity: To bring instant access (even to those students whose only Internet access is via amobile device) to learning through teacher-moderated Facebook Pages, Groups and Chat, andkeep students in “learning mode” outside the classroom.Teaching Digital NativesRaised in the "always-on" world of interactive media, the Internet, and social mediatechnologies, students today have different expectations and learning styles than previousgenerations. The ubiquitous use of social and mobile technologies gives teens anunprecedented opportunity to use tools like Facebook to create self-organizing learningcommunities or Personal Learning Networks (PLN).When the curriculum allows for self-directed online learning, students can learn more than whatis taught in class because they are able to create meaning for themselves beyond the intent ofthe teacher.Understanding and incorporating these digital learning opportunities into your coursework willincrease student motivation and enhance learning, while better meeting the needs of today'sstudents and their digital learning styles. Below we give an overview of these new learningattributes and highlight how Facebook can bring these elements to the learning environment.Digital Learning Experience Attributes● Interactive: Students who create their own content and interact via social media canexpress their identity and creativity.● Student-Centered: Shifts the learning responsibility to the student, requiring students totake a more active role in their own learning process and emphasizes teachers asproviders of help as needed to overcome difficulties.● Authentic: Teachers should find ways to reconcile classroom use of social media to theauthentic way teens are using them outside of the classroom. The use of social mediaand technology should be tied to a specific learning goal or activity.Page 15 of 23
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