Social Media Literacy
photo attributed to psychcentral.com This week we had the opportunity to unpack Rheingold's 5 different social media literacies. He described them as attention, participation, collaboration, network awareness, and critical consumption. I think all of these areas are incredibly important but the two that stuck out to me the most were attention and collaboration. These are two areas I think of most when I think of my own students. When we are working through curriculum and instruction whether it is with technology or traditional classroom setting, these two areas I feel are the most important. When you integrate technology into the classroom, attention becomes an area that students can begin to struggle with. I do a large amount of my interventions through apps like MobyMax. It is often really hard for me to tell if students are giving their full attention to the activities within the program. I often get information back from the activities that do not match what I know their ...