Social Networking and Community Building Assignment
Here are three activities to get you using social media to help you build your mathematical knowledge and learning through community.The learning activities include ways for two way communications - both synchronously and asynchronously, between students, teachers, peers and the wider online community. The format of the directions is up to you, just follow the basic activity procedures outlined below.
Activity 1
Aim: To use a social networking and collaborative learning site to search, share and learn from others.
A basic concept here is one that is actually “anti-mathematical”, that is that the sum of the parts is greater than the whole. By this it means together as you collaborate you can learn much more together than apart.
Task:
Aim: To use a social networking and collaborative learning site to search, share and learn from others.
A basic concept here is one that is actually “anti-mathematical”, that is that the sum of the parts is greater than the whole. By this it means together as you collaborate you can learn much more together than apart.
Task:
- Students are to search the internet for a video clip no longer than 4 minutes covering the current topic area - the circle, pi and circumference.
- Post the video on the class Edmodo group for the task.
eg.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-cazxAL_tU - An explanation as to why you chose the clip will also need to be included. You can not post a clip that someone else has posted.
- Your last task is to view all the videos your peers have posted and make a positive comment on at least two of them.
Activity 2
Aim: To analyse and reflect on your own social media interactions using the power of data analytics behind the tool.
Using your existing social networking account you’re going to analyse your current social media use and the data in your network.
To do this activity you will need to have either a Twitter, Instagram or Facebook account.
Task:
Aim: To analyse and reflect on your own social media interactions using the power of data analytics behind the tool.
Using your existing social networking account you’re going to analyse your current social media use and the data in your network.
To do this activity you will need to have either a Twitter, Instagram or Facebook account.
Task:
- Go to Simply Measured.com and utilise their free analysis tools
http://simplymeasured.com/free-social-media-tools/#i.1ay86bis1xezis - Click on either Twitter, Instagram or Facebook to authorise analysis of your account.
- Follow them on twitter to get the free report and enter your name and email details. For organisation just use our school name.
- Click on the link to wait for the report to generate.
- Take a photo (screenshot) of your favourite graph from the analysis, this is what you will share on the class VoiceThread account.
(Remember to download the entire data to Excel or Powerpoint for your own information later). - Upload your image to the class VoiceThread (see VT below, login using your school email account to edit and add a slide). Remember to add your own comment to your slide and explain why it was interesting to you.
- Lastly review the VoiceThread and leave a comment on at least two other slides mentioning what you noticed that was most interesting from their data.
Activity 3
Aim: To connect with experts in the fields of pure and applied Mathematics, the business world and general fields of interest to students (related to Mathematics). This activity should be run over the course of 1-2 weeks in order to build up some communication between students and the experts they will follow.
Task:
Aim: To connect with experts in the fields of pure and applied Mathematics, the business world and general fields of interest to students (related to Mathematics). This activity should be run over the course of 1-2 weeks in order to build up some communication between students and the experts they will follow.
Task:
- Sign up for twitter (http://twitter.com) if you do not already have an account.
- Search for Mathematical (e.g engineers, analysts, professors, mathematicians, statisticians, bankers etc) experts to follow.
- Track their posts, read their profile, click through on links from their posts. Ask yourself, is there something of interest or value here? If so, tweet them directly, that is reference or "mention" them in a tweet using their @twittername - ask them a question about your Mathematics at school.
- If you need to use more than one tweet that is fine, mentioning it is a school project may also encourage them to respond quickly.
- Check back in daily over the coming 1-2 weeks, and repeat the process with other experts if the first one selected does not tweet back. Continue to build your following and search for answers to your biggest burning Mathematical question right now.