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This map shows the location of participants in the course "Social Media Literacy for Change" on European Schoolnet Academy. Please enter your location on this map and see if there are people close to your location who are also taking this course.

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I teach English as a Foreign Language in a Secondary School in Rome. I've been teaching English for 16 years. I'm specialized in developing ICT in the classroom. I like learning new things, I think life-long learning is the aim of a good teacher. I like trying new methods to make my lessons interactive and I believe this digital period forces us to keep up with technological progress and I want to be at the forefront.

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https://emilianarufo.wordpress.com/

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This is my secondary school in the north of Rome, it has 250 students and 25 teachers. The school has got some classes with Interactive White Boards and projectors and two labs: a computer lab and a video room. I have been training to use technology in the classroom and my students are enthusiastic.

I often use collaborative learning - task based activities so students can learn by doing. I started to flip some of my lessons following the Flipped Classroom approach. In this way, I'm re-organizing the learning time and trying to develop my students' digital skills, too.

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Module 1: What is social media literacy?

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Module 1: What is social media literacy?

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Social media are an important part of the lives of many young people, and a way for them to socialize, express themselves, and learn. In this module, we will discuss the main trends in social media use by children and young people and the opportunities, potential risks, and the challenges related to social media at school and beyond.

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My idea: Students use Social Media to be connected with the world, to share their life experiences, to have followers because they think it is the right way to socialize nowadays. Teachers think using Social media to reach students' interests is not the right way because they spend a lot of time online and don't socialize in real life. There must be a changing of ideas to let Social Media become a means of knowledge and communication which could fit well with education.

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Reflect - What are the challenges of social media use in schools? - brainstorming and voting | tricider

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Reflect and add one or two ideas to the Tricider wall and vote on other participant's ideas.

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My post: Students use Social Media to be connected with the world, to share their lives experiences, to have followers because they think it is the right way to socialize nowadays. Teachers think using Social media to reach students' interests is not the right way because they spend a lot of time online and students don't socialize in real life. There must be a changing of ideas to let Social Media become a means of knowledge and communication which could fit well with education.
I use tools to create Virtual Classrooms at my school. They are a safer  and protected way to share contents and relationships between students and teachers.

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https://swgfl.org.uk/online-safety-policy-templates-for-schools/
http://fcl.eun.org/sml4change/reports

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Module 2: What is a social media literacy strategy?

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Module 2: What is a social media literacy strategy?

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Strategic planning is a useful tool to enhance the social media literacy of students, teachers, and the wider school community. But what is strategic planning?

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A social media literacy strategy for schools

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My entry:
The benefits of having a Social Media Literacy strategy in our school is fast communication and sharing of information.

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Reflect - What are the benefits of having a social media literacy strategy for a school community? - brainstorming and voting | tricider

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Reflect, add one or two ideas to the Tricider wall, and vote on other participants' ideas.

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My idea:
To increase and enhance the use of Social Media at school there must be the whole community involvement.
First of all, teachers should start planning goals and objectives for students and for their own teaching practice.
The Headmaster should agree with teachers' goals and support them.
Then there must be parents' involvement to share objectives and learning goals.
Finally, students have to do their part by understanding the great benefit using social media could give them to develop their skills and competences for the future.

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Before you start writing and implementing your strategy, it is important to have a clear idea of the benefits it will have for your school, and to evaluate potential risks to its success.

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My idea:
Competence, Professional Development on the use of Social Media and ICT skills are important needs for a general use of Social Media at school. In my school context we need: more motivated teachers who understand the great value Technology and Social Media are having on new generations of students, a motivated Headmaster who understands needs of nowadays teachers and students. Even if there are passionate teachers and interested students, if people who have power in important decisions don't do anything to enhance education and learning, we won't go anywhere to face the future.

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Reflect - What are the most salient needs related to the use of social media in general and in your school context? - brainstorming and voting | tricider

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Reflect and add one or two ideas to the Tricider wall and vote on other participants' ideas.

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Why a social media literacy strategy at school?

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Why a social media literacy strategy at school?

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Why to create a long-term initiative to support media literacy at school?

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Why to create a long-term initiative to support media literacy at school?

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2.5 Why to create a long-term initiative to support media literacy at school?

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Live event: Q&A with Dr. Valerie Verdoodt

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Live event: Q&A with Dr. Valerie Verdoodt

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SML4Change Q&A: Data awareness and social media in the school context

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Plan – Get started with your strategy by engaging relevant stakeholders

Based on your previous reflections, start reaching out to relevant stakeholders in your school (as you have identified in task 2.2) who can help you design and/or implement your school SML strategy. Chose at least one of the following options:

1. Prepare a short text about developing a social media literacy strategy for the school and send it by email or post it on the school blog or forum, etc.

2. Prepare some key aspects and questions and try to reach out to colleagues, students etc. through informal chats (for example during lessons related to the topic, in the teachers’ room, etc.)

3. Prepare a short presentation and some key discussion points and organise a session about this during one of the upcoming formal school meetings or events.

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https://www.schooleducationgateway.eu/en/pub/resources/tutorials/connect-and-conquer-a-guide-t.htm
http://www.schoolleadership.eu/
http://democraticschools.ecos.pt/
http://democraticschools.ecos.pt/publications/
https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmus-plus/sites/erasmusplus/files/library/school-leaders-guide_en.pdf

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Whole-school approach: a practical example (Germany)

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Module 3: How to develop a meaningful SML strategy at your school

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Module 3: How to develop a meaningful SML strategy at your school

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1. Identify the key areas of your social media literacy strategy

2. Engage relevant stakeholders in the development of your strategy

3. Compose a situational analysis of your school context

4. Define SMART goals, objectives, and activities for your strategy based on your school context

5. Identify potential risks to the development and implementation of your strategy and propose possible solutions

6. Define a coherent strategy with realistic strategic goals, objectives, and activities for your strategy

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I think in the context I'm teaching won't be very useful to have social media for education. We already use Google Suite for Education, I am the administrator of the accounts for teachers and students for information and communication and Classroom app for virtual classes to exchange materials and tasks. In this way everything is protected and easy to check. I have created a youtube school account to share videos I usually publish on the school website I manage. I'm still trying to learn how social media can be used at school.

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How the analysis of your school context and the identified focus areas relate to the strategic goals and objectives of your strategy

Why strategic goals are important and how they relate to objectives

What a strategy action/implementation plan is and which elements it entails

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A Strategic planning to introduce and use Social Media in the School context leads to a different way of understanding learning. The use of ICT and devices and the possibilities to show the class activities to others give meaningful goals and significant objectives to the learning activities. Students can face real life and understand the responsibility of sharing online. When everything you do in class is closed to the class context, there's no opening to the world, different goals, this happens when planning is not student-centred.

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Reflect - What is the difference between strategic planning (as explained in this course) and 'traditional' planning in your context? - brainstorming and voting | tricider

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Reflect and add one or two ideas to the Tricider wall and vote on other participants' ideas.

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How to co-develop a social media strategy?

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How to co-develop a social media strategy?

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How to co-develop a social media strategy?

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Understanding the social media landscape and emerging needs at school

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Understanding the social media landscape and emerging needs at school

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Understanding the social media landscape and emerging needs at school

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Defining strategic goals and SMART activities plans

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Defining strategic goals and SMART activities plans

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Strategic SMART goals 4 change MOOC  Giansanti DEF final 1

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Task 1 – SWOT analysis

Go back to the SWOT analysis draft you prepared at the end of Module 1 and revise it once more, adding also a descriptive paragraph on your school mission. If you wish, you can watch the video in section 3.4 again and check Anamaria’s outline there.

Task 2 – Strategic goals and objectives

Once you have finalized your situational analysis, start defining the strategic goals and objectives of your strategy. If you wish, you can watch the video in section 3.5 again and check Monica’s outline there.

Optional task (not mandatory to complete your strategy)

If you were able to engage other colleagues, students etc. in developing the strategy, you could now ask them for feedback on this first part and revise your draft accordingly.

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Discover the digital potential of your school

Is your school making the most of digital technologies for teaching and learning? SELFIE is a free, easy-to-use, customisable tool to help schools assess where they stand with learning in the digital age. Watch the short video introducing you to the benefits of the SELFIE tool.
Ready to start using SELFIE? Register or sign in

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Is your school making the most of digital technologies for teaching and learning? SELFIE is a free, easy-to-use, customisable tool to help schools assess where they stand with learning in the digital age. Watch the short video introducing you to the benefits of the SELFIE tool. Ready to start using SELFIE?

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Module 4: From planning to reality – Implementing your strategy

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Module 4: From planning to reality – Implementing your strategy

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During this module, you will learn:

Which kinds of activities you can potentially include in your implementation plan to reach different goals and involve different target groups

How you can develop different, concrete activities together with your students

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We celebrate Safer Internet day, we have Rules in using devices at school. We use Classroom accounts and we have Coding activities every year, but we haven't implemented Social Media Literacy yet.

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eTwinning Project Activities are the most useful to implement and foster Social Media Literacy at school.

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Reflect - What are the most useful types of activities for you to support and foster social media literacy in the school community?

Reflect and add one or two ideas to the Tricider wall and vote on other participant's ideas.

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Reflect - What are the most useful types of activities for you to support and foster social media literacy in the school community? - brainstorming and voting | tricider

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Reflect - What are the most useful types of activities for you to support and foster social media literacy in the school community? Reflect and add one or two ideas to the Tricider wall and vote on other participant's ideas.

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Champion programmes and peer training for students

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Champion programmes and peer training for students

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Champion programmes and peer training for students

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Co-definition and co-creation of resources on media literacy in primary school

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Co-definition and co-creation of resources on media literacy in primary school

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Co-definition and co-creation of resources on media literacy in primary school

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Task 1 – Actions identification and planning

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https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=euAgQz9bIUq3GTzMC3k1k3IaAn2WikBDv_sBVPavxQBUQUNNOEdHWDRVV0hSTDVRTUszQkhXQVpIQS4u

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Module 5: Assessing the impact of your strategy

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Module 5: Assessing the impact of your strategy

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During this module, you will learn:

Why it is important to assess your strategy

What the key principles of assessing an SML strategy are

Which tools and methods you can use to assess your strategy and social media literacy in general

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How to assess SML strategies: Key Principles

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Continuous Monitoring and Assessing the impact of Social Media Literacy Strategies at school can show pros and cons to improve and enhance teaching practice and learning.

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Reflect - What are the main benefits of continuously monitoring and assessing the impact of your school strategy? - brainstorming and voting | tricider

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Reflect and add one or two ideas to the Tricider wall and vote on other participant's ideas.

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A guide for assessing your SML strategy

How will progress of the SML strategy be measured?

How often will progress be measured against goals?

What exactly will be measured?

Who will be involved in the assessment process?

How will those findings be reported, to whom and for what purpose?

Did we meet our goals?

What was it that helped us to succeed?

What challenges made us fall short?

Were our goals well set, and have they brought us closer to achieving our overall vision?

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Learning Activity - My idea on the Padlet

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Learning Activity - My idea on the Padlet

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Assessing strategies:

Questionnaires – forms to collect feedback and data on perception, knowledge, use etc.

Informal focus group – open discussion with few people in informal setting following 3 to 5 guiding questions

Formal and whole school focus group – semi-guided discussion in a formal meeting or event in the school, involving at least management, some colleagues and some students

I think it would be better to have different forms of evaluation of the SML strategies. I will assess first by formal focus group to discussa bout the activities and their impact on teachers and students and the community involved; then I will assess by informal focus groups to understand pros and cons of the strategies; finally I will ask the whole school community: students, teachers, parents, etc to answer questionnaires to collect feedback and data to work on to implement and improve Social media Literacy Strategies in our school.

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Assessment of actions implementation and awareness

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Assessment of actions implementation and awareness

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Assessment of actions implementation and awareness

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Lessons learned from SML strategy implementation in schools

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Lessons learned from SML strategy implementation in schools

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It can be difficult to engage the whole school, especially sceptical teachers and parents. A good way to overcome this is to approach colleagues individually, engage colleagues that hold key positions in the school, and develop a communication approaches that fit your target group. Knowing why engagement is low can help you develop the right engagement strategy.

It is crucial to know the school context and include existing initiatives in the strategy, as well as use ready-made tools to save time and resources.

Under the right guidance, students are enthusiastic to develop things themselves and are very committed when they feel like they can make a difference. Have trust in your students’ capacity and involve them in your SML strategy!

It is helpful to engage external experts and seek guidance from associations, other inspiring teachers, or online safety providers, so look beyond your school for inspiration and support!

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Plan – Get started with designing assessment
Developing a plan

How will progress be measured?

How often will progress be measured against goals?

What exactly will be measured? i.e. How will you assess that each strategic goal is being or has been fulfilled?

How will those findings be reported, to whom and for what purpose?

My Reflections on the Tricider:

I have learnt that implementing Social Media Literacy at school can be difficult because it is not easy to engage the whole school, especially teachers and parents who are not very confident with Social Media. It is crucial to know the school context and include existing initiatives in the strategy. It is important to engage students by involving them in the SML strategy. It is helpful but really difficult to engage external experts for support.

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Final reflection - Share one to three lessons learnt about the whole learning experience and the process of designing your Social Media Literacy strategy - brainstorming and voting | tricider

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Reflect on the questions below and add your comments to the Tricider wall and vote on other participant's ideas.1. What did you learn by designing your SML strategy?2. Did you face any difficulties during the process of developing your SML strategy?3. What aspects of the process did you enjoy most or least?

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https://www.executestrategy.net/blog/strategy-evaluation/
https://www.executestrategy.net/blog/kpi/
https://www.executestrategy.net/blog/how-to-write-kpis/

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It was hard but finally I have managed to write my Social Media Literacy Strategy Plan. Here it is: