We are more connected than ever and the children we teach are more connected than ever. So how are we making the most of social media in our classrooms? It’s a part of children’s life that schools are increasingly aware of or frightened by. Some schools might be tackling issues head on, others might be running from it. But what happens when you use in for the good of learning?
Twitter connected my class to British Astronaut Tim Peake whilst he was on board the International Space Station. We had wrote a song for him, performed it in guided reading and recorded it as a podcast in GarageBand. We uploaded our recording to Audiboom and the European Space Agency shared it with Tim Peake. A few weeks later, Tim Peake listened to our song and tweeted back his own verse. You can read more about this experience here.
The journey didn’t end there though.
Today was a date in my calendar that I never dreamed of saving when we first recorded this podcast.
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It wasn’t even a date I dreamed of saving when I watched Tim Peake return to earth and wrote this blog entry.
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It wasn’t even a date I dreamed of saving when Tim Peake wrote about that entry on his social media sites!
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