Using social media to teach, Session 4: Facebook in the classroom

Welcome to Facebook in the Classroom. In this session, you will learn more about Facebook. You will open a Facebook Account and learn and how to use it effectively in your classroom to improve learning outcomes.

By the end of the session, you will:

• be familiar with a brief history of Facebook
• be able to talk about the various opportunities Facebook presents to teachers
• have created a Facebook Account in a web browser and/or in the Facebook App
• know how to navigate the various Facebook Pages and Buttons
• know how to create a Facebook post
• understand the importance of copyright
• understand what Digital Citizenship is
• appreciate the importance of using Facebook in pedagogically sound ways
• understand four ways of evaluating a Facebook-based lesson
• analyse lesson plans where Facebook is used

We will cover four key areas in this session.

1. An introduction to Facebook.
2. Getting started with Facebook, where you will learn about the social medium and how to use it.
3. Ideas for using Facebook in your classroom.
4. Lesson plans for using Facebook.

We suggest that you download the Class Notes first so you can follow along during the training.