Reflection on reading a great article : Instructional Design and Development for Social Media Lessons by Dr. Dennen.

Designing Social media lessons.

So , its basically like you are planing a regular lesson, you need to consider the intended learning outcomes and ensure that the content of your lesson or the concepts addresses those outcomes and the instructional activities provide the needed practice to achieve the educational goals.

You need to ask few questions, like how much value doe s social media add to your lesson? does it support your instructional method , whether its collaborative or concept methods..etc. Will this media support your learning activities?

How much knowledge does your student have about using this media, doe she/ he have easy access, does the student need to set up access, does the student have any concerns in regards to privacy settings?

What really made me think and really dig into, even try to apply was the part of :  the  Social media development Guidance.

What my take home message was basically, 

Instructors/ designers need to know , how deep they need to develop their material ,their learning environment , they need to tease their students, to assure their students and initiate a prompt , offer a general ledge, where it can stimulate response , make the learning environment comfortable and inviting  for all students to contribute.

   In addition, instructors need to have an anchor platform ,  main tool where  students can always get back to or start from.  It basically simplifies the activity for students. It  is a platform where the main URL or account is, where students all active engagement stem form , all shared content, resources can be viewed  using this platform . On this main platform,  designers can add teasers, or model what is expected from students as content. Moreover, adding few more media tools is favorable to meet all the learning activity needs/ learning outcomes  as well as to help students gain few more skills. but it is advised not to add too many. Instructors/ designers need to keep the number of tools kind of limited, so that learners would be able to know how to coordinate them and most importantly stay on task.

Thats what i came to understand so far, hope this helps!


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