Presentation from the Social Technology in Education conference at Harvard University, 8/14/09

1. Social Networking
for the K12 Set
Jim Klein
Director IS & T
Saugus Union School District, CA

2. 41% Posting messages
32% Downloading music
30% Downloading videos
29% Uploading music
25% Updating personal web sites or online profiles
24% Posting photos
17% Blogging 96% 9-17 year olds
report using social
16% Creating and sharing virtual objects
media technologies
14% Creating new characters
9 hours/week – as
10% Participating in collaborative projects much as TV
10% Sending suggestions or ideas
60% talk about
9% Submitting articles education topics
9% Creating polls, quizzes or surveys

4. 77% Sharing visual media files
63% Creating polls or surveys
54% Participating in online projects
46% Blogging
Usage is sparse
38% Sharing music or sound files
70% ban social
31% Site-building
networking
27% Playing interactive games
20% Participating in virtual worlds
16% Social networking
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90

5. transform
trans•form
| trans'fôrm |
verb
make a thorough or dramatic change in
the form, appearance, or character of

24. http://www.flickr.com/photos/duchamp/117943548
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26. http://www.flickr.com/photos/schoschie/217848140

27. Changing the Game

28. Challenges
Media vs. truth
Accuracy vs. creativity
Public vs. private
Comments
Corrections
Policy & accountability
Teacher education
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rondostar

29. Learning Landscape of the Future

30. Learning Landscape of the Future

31. "The conversation about technology in
schools is trapped in the wrong subject.
The talk is all about "does the technology
work" as a fix for the old. It ought to be
about developing and choosing between
visions of how this immensely powerful
technology can support the invention of
powerful new forms of learning to serve
levels of expectation higher than anything
imagined in the past.”
~ Seymour Papert

32. Thanks!
Twitter: jnetman1
http://community.saugususd.org/jklein