Social Media for Teachers
How to Incorporate TikTok into the Classroom
TikTok has risen to be the second most popular social media site amongst teens. As an interactive video platform, consumers have the opportunity to create, respond, share, and like videos. In my opinion, TikTok will be apart of your students life, so why not try to incorporate it into their educational journey. Tech and Learning dives into how TikTok can be used to guide learning.
TikTok can be used as a alternative mode for completing assignments individually or in a group. Teens love to create dance and comedy videos on TikTok with their friends. The level of engagement for teens being able to create a project on TikTok would be more than enough of a reason to use the platform. For example, at my school the student council is led by our music teacher. Our school has noticed through data that students are struggling to keep their hands to themselves in the classroom. Our music teacher assigned a project to the student council to create a fun, engaging video to encourage younger students to keep their hands to themselves and WHY they should. This was a leadership role experience for the older kids to role model good behavior for the younger students. The younger students were able to see older students teach them through a platform they are familiar with and enjoy. This project can be easily adapted to any behavior concern your school is experiencing. Additionally, videos can be created to showcase final projects, school dance announcements, book summaries, musical assignments and more. Tech and Learning provides an example of a TikTok lesson plan for educators to use and adapt.
The Value of Social Media for Lesson Plans
Julie Daniel Davis expresses her thoughts of social media in education on her blog. I was stunned by her analogy between our former presidents use of social media and how that can turn into digital citizenship lessons or even reenacting character conflicts in books. It is naïve to think students aren't seeing negative communication online so we can use those negative experiences into teaching opportunities. This type of outlook speaks to the belief of teaching the whole child. Including proper social media use education is culturally relevant to our students just like how we recognize their native language, home culture, and home family dynamics.
She shares many examples of websites that allow students to create fake text messages to create a character conflict explanation.
In my opinion, teaching students to create fake messages could result to cyber-bullying if the proper digital media education and social emotional discussion is not supplemented with the lesson. How do you think educators can best get that message across, while still implementing this creative, engaging lesson?
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