Using the Social Media Toolkit
In this week's readings by Gulbahar et al (2017), Enriching Higher Education with Social Media: Development and Evaluation of a Social Media Toolkit, the authors recognized that Social Media was playing an increasingly affluent role in higher education. However, they also identified that there were certain challenges to its implementation, namely (i) uncertainty over how Social media could be integrated into existing pedagogy, (ii) ambiguity over how social media can be applied in educational contexts and (iii) infrastructural support over such an implementation. Further studies revealed that while students were active users of social media, they did not predominantly use it for educational purposes. As such, while studies suggest that Social Media could in fact, prove a powerful driving force in creating effective learning environments, the ambiguity over how it could be used and the effectiveness of its usage remains a key impediment.
The study then proposed a framework based on (i) Knowledge Levels (lifted from Bloom's Taxonomy), (ii) Instructional Methods, (iii) Content Type, (iv) Assessment. With this in mind, I sought to try out their proposed Social Media Toolkit for a lesson I had in mind. My topic of choice was Introduction to Staff Writing, which I thought was a very applicable and relevant topic for my job.
First off, I checked off my the knowledge level I expected of my learners. As an entry-level skill, I would focus on Remembering, Understanding, Applying and Analyzing.
Next, for my Content Type, this lesson is typically delivered in oral form.
For my Instructional Method, this course is predominantly delivered via a traditional lecture style instructional method. However, i also see myself integrated elements of PBL, Collaborative Learning and Discussions.
Finally, for Assessment, the classical Assessment Types seem to be the most applicable here.
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