The types of social media that I feel
would be effective to communicate my issue of implementing play-based
curriculum back into the classroom would be educational blogs and You Tube. Using
an educational blog would be a way to produce and share quality content about
play-based curriculums and how they have positive effects on students. Educational
blogs also create social interactions among teachers and administrators and even
curious political leaders. When on an educational blog users use critical
thinking skills and respond with ideas and examples about the topic being discussed.
As for the benefits of using You Tube there are many. By posting videos a sense
of community can be created. Many viewers on You Tube are looking to share and
engage with others in their field of interest. Videos can create a buy in
because a personality can be portrayed through the use of a video. You Tube
allows people to link to each other and to link to experts in their own field.
The use of You Tube videos can also help to show aspects of a classroom because
live video can be taken inside a classroom with permission. In the case of
play-based curriculum students engaging in play-based curriculum activities
could be videotaped and shared on You Tube to show the positive effects and
benefits of that type of curriculum. I believe that educational blogs would
reach teachers and administrators. If teachers and administrators read and
interact on the blog then they may reach out to their school boards and state
leaders to start facilitating more play-based curriculums. The use of You Tube could reach around the
world and captivate teachers, administrators, political leaders, and government
officials. Being able to watch real children in real classrooms benefiting from
play-based curriculum may spark their interest to get involved and advocate for
this type of curriculum. A challenge with educational blogs is people do have
to take the time to read and respond to them. The benefit though is that
conversations can flow and ideas can be generate between experts in the field
through the use of blogs. You Tube has the challenge of gaining permission to
use videos of children and having the permission from all parties involved in
the video. The idea of “putting” kids out on the internet can be a scary
thought. On the flipside the benefit of using You Tube is the impact a video
with real children learning and interacting can have on the educational
viewers. Either type of social media is an outlet to present the idea of using
play-based curriculum in classrooms and to show the positive effects it can
have on children and their future successes.
You stated the advantage of using social media was that “educational blogs also create social interactions among teachers and administrators and even curious political leaders.” I agree. Social media gives us an opportunity to target policy issues to the appropriate audiences. It is thrilling to know that our voice is capable of reaching curious political leaders who care enough to search for the answers. I applaud political leaders who cite social media resources when raising the voices of all Americans.
ReplyDeleteYes our political leaders must stay up with the times. Technology, specifically social media is a driving force in our communication world now. I agree that it is thrilling to know political leaders are curious enough to go searching for answers or exploring worlds such as early childhood that they might not be familiar with.
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ReplyDeleteI am sure politicians have "feelers" out there to find what are important issues being discussed via social media. One thing that I find challenging is the issue of saturation. Sometimes there can be so much out there that it is hard to prioritize which things you want to read first. What I find myself doing is selecting things based on various criteria so I can avoid overload. However, using this strategy makes me overlook many important comments. I wonder is politicians have any strategies for selecting what to view - and if they do, it would be useful to know what these are.
That is great point! There really is information overload happening on the Internet so knowing how politicians filter what they look at would be very helpful. If we knew what their strategies were then we could use select media sources and key words to catch their attention.
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