Twitter Chats are a great way for you and other educators to collaborate, generate new ideas, and discuss various Edmodo-topics. During Twitter Chats, moderators lead a conversation on Twitter about a specific topic using a pre-determined #hashtag on every tweet, and participants can join in the conversation by responding with that #hashtag.
The amazing Edmodo Support Ambassadors organize a Twitter Chat every first and third Sunday of the month at 8pm Eastern using the hashtag #edmodochat.
Hi, I'm Hsuanwei, a Teacher Advocate at Edmodo & former secondary science & comp sci teacher. I'm super excited for today's #EdmodoChat because I LOVE @Newsela and I LOVE @edmodo, but I especially love using the two together!
#EdmodoChat - What genre of news do you like to read? Take a picture or screenshot of a news source that you regularly incorporate into your news diet! It could be a newspaper, magazine, or online source of news!
I follow news about international events, foreign policy, US politics, social justice & civil rights on a daily basis, but I pay very close attention to environmental & science news as well. One of my faves is learning about new tech advancements #EdmodoChat
News? What's that! :) I can't offer a screenshot readily at this time. I pull from a wide variety. I get links from tweeps, from FB friends... Scattershot in some ways but a nifty range of types of sources 'cause a wide range of connections! #edmodochat
Jeremy in Connecticut. Parent who works in education. Trained and former journalist. Very much into building this country’s #MediaLiteracy. #EdmodoChat
A1- for my students, #MediaLiteracy means being able to dissect & analyze a piece of media for not just the main ideas being conveyed but also the biases/perspective from which it is conveyed, as well as how the format of delivery impacts content #EdmodoChat
A1 #medialiteracy means that students and myself can access resources, anazlyze them for accuracy/validity, understand how to use the info we obtain #edmodochat
A1 Ss need to know which websites are reputable and unbiased or if the resources are biased to find other points of view. I discourage using sites with .com domains or or ads #EdmodoChat
A2 so much info is avail within seconds on the internet, tv, we need to be able to sift through it all to obtain accurate info and to know how to use it #edmodochat
#Edmodochat A1 It means dealing w/ media elements and layers of context to help Ss access, analyze, evaluate, and create media and be better prosumers & critical thinkers. https://t.co/DCGjWImYnP
#Edmodochat A2 Because Media pervades lifelong learners’ scenarios, thoughts, beliefs and actions and somehow shapes them. Being media literate is a 21st Century skill .
A2) Our modern world is swimming in media. We can’t call ourselves “literate” without being able to interpret information, put it in context, and understand what’s truthful and relevant. #EdmodoChat
A2- It' so important to give Ss the skills to determine what are credible sites, how to identify bias, and not accept everything they see online as truth. #EdmodoChat
Q2. For agency. For empowerment. We need a media-literate society to have a truly democratic society, to engage with the world on issues that matter to us. #edmodochat
A2- it is essential to teach #MediaLiteracy bc it's the main way our kids receive new information about the world nowadays. W/out cognitive awareness & active intellectual engagement, our kids would too easily fall prey to propaganda & sensationalized reporting #EdmodoChat
A2-teaching media literacy is important because in this current century there are so many types of media. It is important to teach students how to compare and sift through to find factual information and how to use factual media to support research, etc. #edmodochat
A2- It' so important to give Ss the skills to determine what are credible sites, how to identify bias, and not accept everything they see online as truth. #EdmodoChat
A2: It's important to teach ML because this is our students' reality. By the time they're adults, newspapers will be obsolete. Media is their main medium for obtaining news. They need to know how, why, what not, and why not :D #EdmodoChat
A2: "Media literacy empowers people to be critical thinkers and makers, effective communicators and active citizens." A need for careers & college #edmodochat
A3- as with most political topics, "fake news" has always been sort of a joke to my students. I've fond it helpful to teach them its impact by 1st intro-ing a pop culture topic eg. correlations btw fake news claiming a young celeb's death & spike in Google searches #EdmodoChat
A3: Fake news used to come up all the time, especially in my SS class. We worked on making decisions on good sources and reliable references. #edmodochat
{edmodo: RT Newsela: Q3: #EdmodoChat - Does fake news come up as a topic in your classroom? How do you respond to students about this? https://t.co/9DxktnfgXH]
{edmodo: Edutopia blogger and educator mbteach wrote a great post on combatting fake news in the classroom. Save this for future reference! https://t.co/0s6Wq7evVd#edmodochat]
A3- as with most political topics, "fake news" has always been sort of a joke to my students. I've fond it helpful to teach them its impact by 1st intro-ing a pop culture topic eg. correlations btw fake news claiming a young celeb's death & spike in Google searches #EdmodoChat
A4: I do not have a classroom but fake news is definitely something that I think Ss would want to discuss with some type of adult. Although I am not a classroom teacher, I think it is best to teach students how to detect fake news. #edmodochat
A3: Shockingly students don't bring up fake news on their own much. Teaching them to know there are people trying to influence their choices is so important. #edmodochat
A1: Media literacy in my classroom is about equipping my students with skills that would help them process and discern between credible and inaccurate digital resources available at their fingerprints. #EdmodoChat
#edmodochat The check on truth used to be publishers. A company puts their market trust in your words....they expect your words to be accurate. But now any fool with a keyboard can disseminate information with no check for truth. It's important to teach OURSELVES caution.
#Edmodochat A3 Fake news come up in our daily lives everywhere and every time. I tell them how to be prudent when analyzing and citing sources and sharing news and to check bias, audience ,context and power relations embedded in media texts.
YES, except for the newspaper obsolescence part, I hope. (That’s the journalism grad in me talking.) But much of their fate is largely up to the newspapers, particularly the largest, still influential ones. Will their coverage reflect information literacy? #journalism#EdmodoChat
It is important to equip students with the skills to analyze and evaluate media in order to better understand the messages behind the content. This will lead to our students becoming critical thinkers and agents of change. #Edmodochathttps://t.co/l7ELPDRVOK
Q2. For agency. For empowerment. We need a media-literate society to have a truly democratic society, to engage with the world on issues that matter to us. #edmodochat
A3. Well, what do we mean by that? Made-up by trolls, propaganda, misinformation, disinformation, shoddy reporting... what the president dislikes? #edmodochat
A2: Teaching #medialiteracy is crucial as students may take fake information as true. This may affect their beliefs of their own, what is really useful form them and what could affect them.
@edmodo@Newsela@EatonSarah85#edmodochat!
A4- good habits of #medialiteracy include: cross-checking sources, look for citations & links to other outlets, verifying the site name & URL for online media, & checking Snopes, PolitiFact, https://t.co/GuOjIQVwgb, & NPR fact check. #EdmodoChat
Q5: #EdmodoChat - Does your school employ a media literacy curriculum and how do you supplement it ? For what grade levels? What does it generally cover?
#edmodochat Finding the right T for #medialiteracy is harder than we might think, if we're honest. Too many Ts, being human, believe #fakenews = news that I don't like because it challenges me or embarrasses my political tribe.
A3 yes, a lot of "I heard" or "I read it on." and lots of times Ss take it to be an accurate story, we discuss the source, sometimes check a few other sources #edmodochat
A5- my school did not have a #medialiteracy curriculum but introducing my fellow Teachers to @Newsela was a great success bc articles always came from reputable sources, came with insightful post-reading questions & oftentimes great lesson plans & discussion Qs #EdmodoChat
A5. VERY few schools have media literacy in the curriculum, or if they do it's... limited. We need integrated ML K-12, across all subject areas. Yesterday. In my HS work, I covered representation, news, advertising, ownership... among others. @GCMLProject can help! #edmodochat
#Edmodochat A4 Content curation and deep quality and quantity analysis of sources and data w/ credited experts’ support , critical thinking, source checking, evidence spotting, sampling and case study,
Q5: #EdmodoChat - Does your school employ a media literacy curriculum and how do you supplement it ? For what grade levels? What does it generally cover?
Shout out to @KCLS and coming and showing my students a couple years ago the in and outs of your website https://t.co/BsPEFmZ22d Great place for media literacy and summer reading #edmodochat#NCTEchat
{edmodo: RT MisterHFan: A4- good habits of #medialiteracy include: cross-checking sources, look for citations & links to other outlets, verifying the site name & URL for online media, & checking Snopes, PolitiFact, https://t.co/te9jDkck87, & NPR fact check. #EdmodoChat]
A4: One good habit is to ask themselves follow-up questions. Where did this information originally come from? What motivation does this person have for sharing this information? What motivation does a website have for getting information from me? #edmodochat
A4: One good habit is to ask themselves follow-up questions. Where did this information originally come from? What motivation does this person have for sharing this information? What motivation does a website have for getting information from me? #edmodochat
A3: #EdmodoChat I think in my country teachers still need to create awareness about this. More debate on this could be highly benefitial for our Sts Though, its not much worked in our curriculum, litlle by little itll take place!. @edmodo#medialiteracy@Newsela@EatonSarah85
A4: Being able to assess the credibility of the source/website would be one of the fundamentals. Being able to navigate through digital features to comprehend the message would be another. The remaining habits would be the same as those of the "conventional" reader. #EdmodoChat
A5- my school did not have a #medialiteracy curriculum but introducing my fellow Teachers to @Newsela was a great success bc articles always came from reputable sources, came with insightful post-reading questions & oftentimes great lesson plans & discussion Qs #EdmodoChat
#Edmodochat A5 As it is a private ESL academy , media literacy is a transversal topic dealt with as a dimension of context for critical thinking and reading comprehension skills across genres , modes and media.
A4 I have seen a lot of mnemonics for sifting through resources, but look at the source, use Google Scholar, check out sites that identify fake news #edmodochat
There are ways in which we can use Common Core to get there. The phrase is not literally in place, and the principles are not literally in place. But there are connections we can most definitely use if we just use CC to justify... #edmodochat
Laurel but FOR GAWD’S SAKES let’s re-focus our kids on media literacy. Although... I suppose it could be a lesson in how we perceive the same thing in different ways? 🤔#EdmodoChat
A2: I correlated my lessons with SS because I taught that subject also. I also worked with the science teachers when they were working on reports for citing resources properly #Edmodochat#medialiteracy#literacy
A5 I teach #medialiteracy in my #STEAM course to 8th grade students, as part of the year, we cover #digcit and work through some activities, read headlines, look at sources, #edmodochat
Laurel but FOR GAWD’S SAKES let’s re-focus our kids on media literacy. Although... I suppose it could be a lesson in how we perceive the same thing in different ways? 🤔#EdmodoChat
I know, there was a group that was playing it over and over, ugh, if it isn't bottle flipping, dabbing, you name it, white dress blue dress,...#edmodochat
Hi!!! Really!! Lovely you came to Argentina! So sorry I didn't know and couldnt meet you! Anyway, you must have lleft some greats seeds about #medialiteracy Nice to meet you here!#edmodochat
Or a message in how some media can be a distraction whereas other forms of media can be hard (but sometimes necessary) to digest in order to be a good global citizen #EdmodoChat
A5) As a parent, I don’t hear this from the school (and why don’t I?), but my middle schooler has talked about covering things like the CRAAP test. #EdmodoChat
Our editors did a webinar last year on media literacy. You can check out what they and other educators had to say here: https://t.co/OVLjpEMM1a#EdmodoChat
A6- while S's and T's are becoming more comfortable working with rubrics under CommonCore & NextGen standards, S's can learn a valuable lesson in creating their own #medialiteracy rubric. Class can collective brainstorm how a piece of media should be scrutinized #EdmodoChat
{edmodo: RT EatonSarah85: Q6: #EdmodoChat - What are some activities teachers can use when teaching media literacy? How do you help student evaluate media? https://t.co/HP58ZXJvGY]
{edmodo: Here's a terrific article from NYTimesLearning on helping students to evaluate news sources and to identify fake news. Check it out: https://t.co/8NmSL1GOF1. #edmodochat]
#Edmodochat A6 Focus on main ideas, multimodal discourse, data, evidence from texts and external sources, inquiry based learning and assessment tools to check comprehension and critical thinking skills to avoid bias and misinformation when reading and sharing data.
Absolutely! It's the time spent on these trending things that bothers me. Let them reflect on that: What makes it occupy their time, and what are they not occupied on as a result? #EdmodoChat
Here is a plug - I absolutely loved using @Newsela for media literacy because you can differentiate the lexile levels and students have so many choices for content #edmodochat
A6 so many, make up headlines, find websites with activities, use the resources in the book like Julie's and #medialiteracy by Frank Baker, offer a lot, #edmodochat
Or, get them thinking about why different symbols have vastly different manipulative power. Until 1954, Marlboro cigarettes were marked to women, with only limited success. After that, marketing changed to use the Marlboro Man? They became the #1 brand worldwide. Why? #EdmodoChat
A6: Walking ss through digital features to help establish the credibility factor of the info, discussing types of websites & ways to evaluate them... I love Newsela's annotation feature that allows me 2 "see" ss' thinking while reading 2 help them process the content #EdmodoChat
Yes. Because now and then kids of all ages will blurt something out completely preposterous that they "heard" and it's hard not to already have a basis for the resulting conversation. #EdmodoChat
I loved having fish bowl discussions after reading these articles. But it is also great to give those who don't feel comfortable speaking up a platform where they can discuss their opinions @edmodo - #Edmodochat
In reply to
@BenBo370, @EatonSarah85, @nytimes, @Scholastic, @edmodo
Q8: #EdmodoChat - Who should educators follow on Twitter to learn more about media literacy? Are there any other useful hashtags to follow on Twitter related to this topic?
A7: @Newsela is fantastic for this because you can change the reading level & there are so many different topics you can 👀 up & @Newsela is free for educators 👨🏫 👩🏫 #EdmodoChat
{edmodo: If you're enjoying the #edmodochat, don't miss host stephvatz article: 5 Editor-Approved tips for Media Literacy in Any Class. https://t.co/HHXKxW9Hxs]
Yes! Small groups are great for that, I find. Many kids (people!) who don't speak in the full-class context find they can/want to in a small group. #edmodochat Also, nonverbal modes matter!
In reply to
@ssseason7, @EatonSarah85, @nytimes, @Scholastic, @edmodo
A7: @Newsela is fantastic for this because you can change the reading level & there are so many different topics you can 👀 up & @Newsela is free for educators 👨🏫 👩🏫 #EdmodoChat
I had my middle schoolers look at this question in 2007. Here is part one of the slide show I created to guide the discussion. https://t.co/d5CGcjKjMk#EdmodoChat
Ok, we are talking great minds because I just had the same exact thought when reading this tweet. ;)
Is there an "all sides" option? And recognizing some claims don't count as a side? #EdmodoChat
In reply to
@BenBo370, @EatonSarah85, @ssseason7, @nytimes, @Scholastic
{edmodo: RT EatonSarah85: Q8: #EdmodoChat - Who should educators follow on Twitter to learn more about media literacy? Are there any other useful hashtags to follow on Twitter related to this topic? https://t.co/IiVjzbNtvr]
The @AllSidesNow website is informative but it might be much for students below the 11th grade. There are some tough subjects and really wide ranging opinions on that website. https://t.co/P3Yt0Opa97#Edmodochat
In reply to
@JeremyDBond, @BenBo370, @EatonSarah85, @nytimes, @Scholastic, @AllSidesNow
Hey #edmodochat--sorry to (mostly) miss this. Re: #medialiteracy resources, check out @NewsLitProject's Checkology® virtual classroom. Unlimited student licenses still free for remainder of this school year! Then launching super-cool Checkology2.0 in fall. https://t.co/Oyztoh8WUh
This and all #EdmodoChat sessions will be archived for future reference as a moment on Twitter. See previous Edmodo moments here: https://t.co/OmzqQy6agH.
Also, #edmodochat: shameless plug for my weekly email newsletter (during school year) The Sift. A rundown of the week in news literacy examples and teachable moments. You can browse past issues and subscribe here: https://t.co/w5ncEkV8KM
Thank you for participating in this #EdmodoChat discussion on community stories. A slow chat will be available on the same topic on @edmodo at https://t.co/uovfAOOii4
Save the date! June 3rd is when our next chat will take place. Looking forward to seeing everyone at our next #Edmodochat on Celebrating the School year! #edchat#endoftheschoolyear
Thank you all for contributing your ideas on #medialiteracy, and thank you @EatonSarah85 and @Newsela for a great #edmodochat! Wish we could hear some of the media discussion this week in your classes.
This and all #EdmodoChat sessions will be archived for future reference as a moment on Twitter. See previous Edmodo moments here: https://t.co/OmzqQy6agH.
Many thanks to our friends at @Newsela and @EatonSarah85 for leading our #edmodochat tonight! We appreciate your insight and expertise. Have a great night!
