Course Description
This free professional development webinar by IB Educator, author, and TEDx organizer, Tosca Killoran is for all teachers who wish to enhance their knowledge and understanding of social media in education. The live webinar is one-hour long and takes place on March 4, 2015 at UTC. Slides and a video recording of this session will be available to all who enroll.
In this webinar, you will learn:
With the growing ubiquity of social media there has been no other time in history when so many people have so easily shared so much with so many. This has created a distinct shift in our social landscape as it redefines how educators communicate and choose to connect with others in our field. As this inevitable merger between our physical and digital lives progresses, various challenges become apparent. One of these is the friction between the fear of the hidden dangers of social media and the desire to leverage these tools for our learners.
In this session, we’ll look at the current climate of social media, how it relates to us as educators, how to develop a social media policy/philosophy and the strengths and limitations of such tools as, Twitter, Vine, Line, Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook and more.
About the presenter :
Tosca Killoran has been teaching in the IB international community in Asia and Europe since 2000. Currently, she is a digital learning coach at NIST in Bangkok. As a doctoral candidate, Tosca’s published research focuses on innovation in education. She co-founded ED-ucation Publishing in order to help drive education forward with technology. Her published children’s books ground the use of EDTech in citizenship. She founded TEDxYouth@BIS, TEDxYouth@NIST and works with TEDx as well as other organizations such as Meatless Monday, and Taking it Global in order to create opportunities for youth to become empowered change agents.
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