Welcome to WhatsApp in the classroom, Session 7 of Using social media to teach. The aim of this session is to enable you to create a WhatsApp Account and use it for your teaching in a pedagogically sound way.
By the end of the session, you will:
- be familiar with a brief history of WhatsApp
- be able to talk about the educational uses of WhatsApp
- have created a WhatsApp Account on a mobile device and in a browser
- know how to navigate the various WhatsApp Pages and Buttons
- be able to explain the uses of WhatsApp Groups, Communities and Broadcast Lists
- appreciate the importance of copyright
- understand what Digital Citizenship is
- appreciate the importance of pedagogically sound use of WhatsApp in the classroom
- understand four ways of evaluating WhatsApp-based lessons
- analyse lesson plans where WhatsApp is used
We will cover four key areas in this session.
- An introduction to WhatsApp.
- Getting started with WhatsApp, where you will learn about the social medium and how to use it.
- Ideas for using WhatsApp in your classroom.
- Lesson plans using WhatsApp.
We suggest that you download the Class Notes first so you can follow along during the training.
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