My presentation from the Northern Grid Conference 2012. I put the case for the teaching of social media skills in schools from the earliest age as essential literacy skills. The consequences of not doing so are that students may enter the world ill-equipped to communicate effectively or worse, in danger of damaging their reputations or inadvertantly committing criminal acts.

1. Social Learning
The Literacy that cannot be ignored
Northern Grid Conference 2012
#ngconf
Name
Dughall McCormick
@dughall

2. From sure2talk on Flickr

3. “Social media includes web-based
and mobile based technologies
which are used to turn
communication into interactive
dialogue among organizations,
communities, and individuals.”
Wikipedia

7. “This is an area where I would
suggest education, both of what not
to do and of how easy it is to detect
and prosecute these offences, might
prevent the criminalisation of
otherwise decent people…”
Nick Hawkins CPS

8. Year 3 Year 4
What’s in an
avatar?
Year 5

9. Year 6

11. Classes that tweet

12. “The Year 1 Twitter-feed is a good example of the how the
school is not only helping pupils write for a specific
audience, but also keeping parents and carers informed. “
OFSTED

13. From Valerie Reneé on Flickr

15. Thank you
:-)
Name
Dughall McCormick
@dughall