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This was a golden opportunity to get to know my students better. From these exchanges, we can become closer to them. To be a source of inspiration for them to learn more English, I have to make my students like me first before they like the subject I teach. That is why I make it a point to keep a notebook of things I observe in class and whenever I have a chance to chat with them, i would listen to their stories often prompted by the 'right' question. After the interview, both students would sheepishly admit they are trying hard to reduce their device contact time heeding my advice.

This kind of activity is useful and can be adapted as a speaking exercise minus evaluation. The information exchange make us better teachers because we get to find out their likes and dislikes. That will assist us in planning more interesting lessons. For example, the girl who loves Tik Tok discloses that all her girlfriends in the class are passionate about Tik Tok and create video regularly to entertain friends and families. Finding that out, I have started exploring the platform in the hope of creating one Tik Tok video together with the class incorporating content of their English lessons. We will start with "Shame on you cyberbullies!"

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I have asked few students about their opinions. It is great to hear their thought on that topic. It help me actually understand them better. I notice that some of them really glued to the social media where as they are some of them who don't. That answered my question why some of them did not really join the online class. I need to find out the best solution to this problem.- Hasilah-

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Talking about this topic is always interesting, specially because sometimes students aren't consious about this topics and how they inform and teach each other about it. Also is a good chance to talk about selfconfidence because they depend a lot of what they see in social media. I consider this topic an excelent tool to teach about technology but also values and good behaivor.
-Alejandra Dubon.

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As I talked to my children, I noticed that they were very interested in this topic and content. They use Instagram more every day because they think Instagram is more positive than Facebook. Based on the information obtained from the social network, they make initial settings to maintain their privacy. Because everyone interacts with information on a daily basis, I felt the need to provide insight and knowledge about it. They expressed a desire to learn more about this and learn from official sources.

When I interact with children, I don't think of creating too many boundaries between teacher and student. I just treat them like their peers, try to guide them, talk to them and try to involve them. We talked and exchanged information.

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I find this an interesting activity both for me as a teacher and for my students. Through this activity I can know my students better and we can build better relationship. I think this will be good if can be implemented for the whole class. 

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I find this an interesting activity both for me as a teacher and for my students. Through this activity I can know my students better and we can build better relationship. I think this will be good if can be implemented for the whole class. 

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I notice that students feel excited to answer my questions. it means that they would feel much more appreciated if they are asked and involved in personal communication. once they feel appreciated and involved, they would be able to share their ideas freely. They would also can listen from their other friends and learn that people have different perspective on things. and of course we should appreciate their thoughts.

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while interviewing my students , i noticed that they are enthusiastic to answer my question and express their opinion frankly. They mentioned some ideas which i didn't think of and they helped each other exchanging ideas about protecting their accounts and avoiding cyber bullying.It was a debatable topic for them .

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while interviewing my students , i noticed that they are enthusiastic to answer my question and express their opinion frankly. They mentioned some ideas which i didn't think of and they helped each other exchanging ideas about protecting their accounts and avoiding cyber bullying.It was a debatable topic for them .

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I interviewed my students about the social media and their privacy. They engaged really well with the topic and they started to explain and discuss their experience and issues that they face while using social media apps. I carefully listened to them and gave them some advices and tips to protect their privacy and accounts security.

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How might an activity like this motivate your students and encourage them to consider different perspectives?

This kind of activity might encourage my students to develop their speaking skills and critical thinking. The idea was to show them that through the learning of the English language we can improve the way we see the world, different cultures and societies.

How might you adapt an activity like this for your own classroom?

Here in Venezuela, the app that people use the most is WhatsApp because it does not requiere to have an excellent connection for us to keep in touch with others. I might adapt this activity opening a group on the app (I might establish specific rules to interact there). I would ask my sudents to share the answers through voice notes for them to have the opportunity to develop their speaking skills. In addition, I would ask them to reply by texting, so they will progress in their writing as well.

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Students were motivated to share their own Opinions . Social media is one of the topics that they are very interested in , they were confident in describing what wanted to say .
They provided a detailed analysis of what they think . They found that they shared some common opinions as well as they all agreed on same disadvantages of social media.
I admit that I was so excited to go forward in this interview since the discussion was informative .

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Since I began the interview with a brief overview and survey, it enabled my students to be comfortable and confident with their answers. An activity like this not only fosters critical thinking among the students but it also allows the students to voice their own opinions and "be heard". I consider it to be pivotal in a class since it's important that we take into account the perspectives of our students about a certain issue. Not only does it permit them to hone their speaking skills, it also empowers them to voice their views and learn from their peers.

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I have used this activity before with my students. I really like my students to do surveys in the classroom. I mean, my students design a survey about a specific topic and then they share it with school peers and people with their same age to get insights about those topics. After that, they have to report their findings and draw conclusions based on the results. It's really meaningful for the students because they are throughout process of creating knowledge and facts regarding problems or opinions of others teens.

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I interviewed some of my students about the the use of social media and media literacy. I felt this activity helps me know my students better. I, now, understand how their attitude toward social media and how they use it in their daily life. I also learn about their perspectives on media literacy. In my opinion, if we adapt this to our own classroom, it will help me to design better lesson plan that accommodate the students' needs

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I interviewed some of my students about the the use of social media and media literacy. I felt this activity helps me know my students better. I, now, understand how their attitude toward social media and how they use it in their daily life. I also learn about their perspectives on media literacy. In my opinion, if we adapt this to our own classroom, it will help me to design better lesson plan that accommodate the students' needs

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Activating students' experience and encouraging students' learning

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Activating students' experience and encouraging students' learning

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In my opinion, the activity like this helps to activate students' experience, and they will be very willing to share their own stories of using social media. Thanks to this, students will feel more open to learn new things.
As for me, my activity will be:
- Questionnaires: get Ss to answer several questions relating to their experience of using social media
- Presentation: Get Ss work in pairs. Each pair will be in charge of one social media platform. They have to find the related information about the platform to make a presentation in class including its history, advantages and disadvantages

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Interviews with students gave a start to the discussion about the usage of social media and digital devices. It is so interesting how differently we perceive the existence of social media. For my students using social media is something they cannot imagine their lives without, for me it is something that wasn’t common when I was a teenager. Although my students are growing up with social media, they are not always aware of the dangers they may bring.
The initial questions may become a great start for the lesson about pros and cons of using social media in everyday life. During the follow-up activities we would discuss not only the negative sides of social media but also the goals they help to achieve. For example, lots of well-paid professions didn’t exist a few years ago but now they bring happiness and career development to people all over the world (e.g. social media manager, content manager, digital marketing manager and others). Moreover, it is easier now to become successful because you can promote yourself with the help of social media. I believe that this topic will be of great interest and help students to develop critical thinking skills.

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This week, at the beginning of one of my webinar, I asked teachers the questions we had for this week. They love sharing ideas and enjoy hearing solution to their challenges from other teachers. I asked them to find similarities and differences of what they had mentioned so they could come up with a plethora of new ideas. I guess Ali mentioned humans always seek opportunities to share opinions and feel free to have the choice they would like to have.
As an educator, I would like to make sure that we discuss the problems we have with social media and share the different strategies available to sort them out.

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I would start the lesson on  science and technology by asking my students to vote on any social media poll platform such as Nearpod or Mentimeter or VK about using technology as well as good or bad things that technology does to people. I believe it could be the introduction to the topic. Another idea is to sum up the topic at the final lesson of a number of lessons devoted to the topic,as the  deduction, which would make students reflect on the disadvantages or advantages of  technology. 

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I would start the lesson on  science and technology by asking my students to vote on any social media poll platform such as Nearpod or Mentimeter or VK about using technology as well as good or bad things that technology does to people. I believe it could be the introduction to the topic. Another idea is to sum up the topic at the final lesson of a number of lessons devoted to the topic,as the  deduction, which would make students reflect on the disadvantages or advantages of  technology. 

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After interviewed three students of my online class, I have learned that my students have something in common and different for using social media. Something in common my students have could be using social media to learn English and connections while they also have other differences in using social media options. During my interview, I found that some students tried to ask me some choices for them but I denied to do so because I needed to get real information from them. From here, I inferred that this activity encouraged them to consider if their idea or performance is a common practice in their community. Thus, I asked them to provide most sincere information as possible in order to motivate metacognitive skills in using technology and social media.

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I had the opportunity to interview two students and I can say that I enjoyed the fact that they felt comfortable talking about a topic that really caught their attention. Also, it was interesting to know different points of view and honestly I did not expect students, even though they love technology and social media, would be so aware of the negative effects this might have in their daily lives. I will definitely use these type of reflection questions with all the students I have in order to raise awareness about these topics related to virtuality.

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This is the questions my students asked me after our discussion on technology and social media.
I had taken this opportunity to have a discussion first and then some of the students submitted a written response.
It was interesting to know how they view technology and social media as something essential and how it's a connection with the outside world. Many of my students come from very religious and traditional families and technology gives them an access to a free world. It widens their world view. They follow Instagram influencers, fashions, Bollywood and also attend classes on their smart phones! Some of them sheepishly did admit that it's a distraction.

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This activity can motivate students to share their ideas in an free environment since the questions are free and they can express their ideas and thoughts.
I really liked this activity and I would like to use it in the topic of social issues, interviewing people and getting their insights is a great way to start a conversation. This activity would help studnets to share and present their ideas in a real environment.

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I wasn't able to interview students this week as I'm not currently teaching any students! However, I think any time that you are asking students for their opinions in this way it can be very motivational to students. Showing that you are interested in, value, and respect their ideas and opinions (particularly as this relates to student choice in the classroom) can be a big source of motivation and encouragement for students.

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The survey regrading social media led my students into a deep conversation with themselves. They realized how they had started using social media just because everybody else was doing it and had not given thought as to why they needed to be on social media ? How does it benefits or harms them ? Are they getting addicted to it ?
I think such activities provide them with the much needed 'PAUSE' to think, gauge and then act responsibly :)

Neetu Chhabra

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Having talked with some of the participants, my own ideas and definitions of social media have been stretched, and I think that I have learned that it is important to come to the same collective working definition of "social media" if we are ever to enable the free flow of communications in a place that are also guided by healthy boundaries. I think I am learning that as we make space to talk more about how we define "social media," those definitions of the word "social media" will naturally become apparent and fleshed out, along with the freedoms and boundaries helping liberate and govern them, too!