The document discusses how social media use in education is different from its use during the Industrial Revolution. It argues that schools originally focused on preparing students for industrial work, emphasizing hierarchical structures, standardized processes, and controlled communication. However, today's "ideas economy" values collaboration, flexible solutions, teamwork, open communication, and accessing information from around the world. It asserts that social media promotes these skills and that banning its use in education prevents preparing students for the careers of the future.

1. Social Media in Education
Are students “cheating” when they use Social Media?
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2. Social Media
People having conversations online. Your students
are already creating photos, blogs, chat sites, micro-
blogs, social networks, videos, RSS feeds and
podcasts to discuss and comment on just about...
Everything.
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3. What Is School For?
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4. Prepare
Kids For
The Future. 4

5. Where Did “School” Come From?
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6. Industrial Revolution
Secretary of Massachusetts, Horus Mann forms the first
USA Education Board to introduce compulsory schooling.
On the Board are the leading industrialists who are
frustrated by undisciplined Immigrant Labour.
Compulsory Schooling is introduced based on the
Prussian System of Schooling (Which was based on
military training).
Children go in one end ... Factory workers come out the
other.
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7. Good For Industrialised Workforce
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8. Bad For Creative Ideas Economy
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9. Industrial Revolution
More efficient to have a hierarchical structure
More efficient to have one standardised product for many
geographies
More productivity when workers shut up and drudge on.
More efficient to have the workforce under one roof.
More efficient to control large quantities of resources.
Power through secrecy.
Power through controlled communication.
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10. Ideas Economy
More efficient to have a collaborative “tribal” structures.
More efficient to have many flexible solutions for many
changing environments.
More productivity when team members are inspired to
co-create upon a clear vision.
More efficient to have the team wherever in the world they
need to be.
More efficient to communicate with many suppliers and
remain flexible.
Power through collaboration and sharing.
Power through dynamic and open communication.
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11. The Industrialised Worker
thinks OPPOSITE to the
Ideas Worker.
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12. Workforce
-vs-
Ideaforce
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13. “Smart People Have The
Answers”
Workforce
-vs-
Ideaforce
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14. “Smart People Have The
Answers”
Workforce
-vs-
Ideaforce
“Smart People Can Access
The Answers”
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15. Workforce
-vs-
Ideaforce
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16. “Asking for help is a sign
of weakness”
Workforce
-vs-
Ideaforce
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17. “Asking for help is a sign
of weakness”
Workforce
-vs-
Ideaforce
“Asking for help is a sign of
strength”
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18. Workforce
-vs-
Ideaforce
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19. “Looking at other people’s
work is called cheating”
Workforce
-vs-
Ideaforce
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20. “Looking at other people’s
work is called cheating”
Workforce
-vs-
Ideaforce
“Looking at other peoples
work is called
collaborating”
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21. Workforce
-vs-
Ideaforce
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22. “I need to quickly
remember facts and
figures correctly when I
see information.”
Workforce
-vs-
Ideaforce
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23. “I need to quickly
remember facts and
figures correctly when I
see information.”
Workforce
-vs-
Ideaforce
“I need to be able to
quickly tell the difference
between good and bad
information when I see it.”
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24. Workforce
-vs-
Ideaforce
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25. “I need to learn stuff”.
Workforce
-vs-
Ideaforce
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26. “I need to learn stuff”.
Workforce
-vs-
Ideaforce
“I need to learn learning”.
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27. Workforce
-vs-
Ideaforce
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28. “I need to do everything
myself.”
Workforce
-vs-
Ideaforce
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29. “I need to do everything
myself.”
Workforce
-vs-
Ideaforce
“I need to get a team
working with me.”
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30. Workforce
-vs-
Ideaforce
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31. “The Company Is
Responsible For My
Career Development”
Workforce
-vs-
Ideaforce
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32. “The Company Is
Responsible For My
Career Development”
Workforce
-vs-
Ideaforce
“I Am Responsible For My
Career Development”
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33. Workforce
-vs-
Ideaforce
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34. “One day I will retire.”
Workforce
-vs-
Ideaforce
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35. “One day I will retire.”
Workforce
-vs-
Ideaforce
“The idea of retirement is
strange because I love
what I do.”
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36. Workforce
-vs-
Ideaforce
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37. “I need to hold on to as
much as possible, so I
can prove I’m valuable.”
Workforce
-vs-
Ideaforce
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38. “I need to hold on to as
much as possible, so I
can prove I’m valuable.”
Workforce
-vs-
Ideaforce
“I need to let go of as
much as possible, while
being sure of my value.”
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39. Who’s the
Smart Kid?
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40. The kid who can
remember the
year Columbus
set sail?
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41. Or the kid who...
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42. Trades information on Facebook
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43. Find a “service provider” to write an assignment.
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44. Gets collaborators to design their project.
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45. Gets help for a Class Project.
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46. Figures out how much profit they made.
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47. Keeps in contact with everyone they meet.
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48. AND
learns from Videos...
Blogs... Tweets...
Podcasts...
Communities...
Ebooks... Photos...
Links... Slides... FOR
FREE
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49. So What?
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50. Old School
-vs-
New School
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51. Students taught to
remember.
Old School
-vs-
New School
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52. Students taught to
remember.
Old School
-vs-
New School
Students Taught to Find.
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53. Old School
-vs-
New School
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54. Students Taught To Retain
Information.
Old School
-vs-
New School
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55. Students Taught To Retain
Information.
Old School
-vs-
New School
Students Taught to Refresh
Information.
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56. Old School
-vs-
New School
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57. Students Trained To Work
On Their Own.
Old School
-vs-
New School
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58. Students Trained To Work
On Their Own.
Old School
-vs-
New School
Students Taught To
Collaborate (preferably with
students in other
countries).
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59. Old School
-vs-
New School
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60. Students Given Topics To
Learn.
Old School
-vs-
New School
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61. Students Given Topics To
Learn.
Old School
-vs-
New School
Students Choose Topics To
Learn About In As Many
Ways As Possible.
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62. Old School
-vs-
New School
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63. Focus On Content.
Old School
-vs-
New School
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64. Focus On Content.
Old School
-vs-
New School
Focus On Context.
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65. Old School
-vs-
New School
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66. Individual Performance.
Old School
-vs-
New School
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67. Individual Performance.
Old School
-vs-
New School
Group Performance.
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68. Look what
I did!
Individual Performance.
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69. Look what
we did!
Collaborative Performance.
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70. Social Media Is At The Heart Of Collaboration.
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71. The Net
Generation
Are Different.
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72. Engaged = Computer, iPod, Phone and 7 IM’s
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73. TJ(12) - 300 friends, Ross(15) - 600 friends
Hannah(17) - 1500 friends
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74. Lack of engagement is one of the
biggest problems we have today
in getting more students through the
college and university system,”
- Vineet Madan, vice president of strategy and business
development for McGraw-Hill.
“... Social Media promotes
engagement.”
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75. Prepare
Kids For
The Future. 45

76. @DanielPriestley
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