Exploring the Impact of Social Media on Students, Wellness, and Society
Graduate-Level Continuing Education Course for Teachers
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Course 5115
For digital natives, social media has become the primary way to communicate. It has also become a big obsession: keeping up with one another, using photos and “likes” as currency. Exploring the Impact of Social Media will help educators and in turn, digital natives, understand the effects of social media on the brain, and how the coding in apps aim to keep us paying attention. Social media is a tool, not good or bad, but too much use can be detrimental to health and self-identity.
This course illuminates the benefits and the drawbacks of our online interactions so we can all learn to regulate our use of social media, along with several creative ways to keep technology in its place.
What you will learn:
Goals and Objectives of this Course:
- Use provided prompts specific to the use of social media and self-regulation, to describe assumptions and insights of practitioners, researchers and self, including how the information relates to professional educational practice.
- Design a lesson on the ways social media apps capture and monetize user experience.
- Prepare an activity to collaborate with students, colleagues, or caregivers to design a 3 or more part series of virtual “talking sessions” to share information about social media, identity, and wellness.
- Implement a plan to use social media to engage students in the classroom.
- Develop an action plan using technology audits to challenge the status quo related to social media.