Sep
2018
student-centered social media policy
How to Craft Useful, Student-Centered Social Media Policies
08/09/18 Tanner Higgin
Whether your school or district has officially adopted social media or not, conversations are happening in and around your school on everything from Facebook to Snapchat.
Use policy creation as an opportunity to take inventory of your students’ needs, how social media is already being used by your teachers, and how policy can support both responsibly.
1. Create parent opt-out forms that specifically address social media use.
2. Establish baseline guidelines for protecting and respecting student privacy.
3. Make social media use transparent to students
4. Most important: As with any technology, attach social media use to clearly articulated goals for student learning
Moving from Policy to Practice
Social media isn’t a novel phenomenon requiring separate attention. Ed tech, and the tech world in general, wants to tout every new development as a revolution. Most, however, are an iteration. While we get caught up re-inventing everything to wrestle with a perceived social media sea change, our students see it simply as a part of school life.
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more on social media in education in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=social+media+education