Collaborative Social Media Apps
Collaborative social media apps allow students to create, share, use multimedia, assess and offer feedback, engage higher order thinking skills, and build learning networks beyond the classroom. The best social apps facilitate communication and collaboration in all parts of learning - specifically in research, outreach to experts, constructivism, situated learning, and the sharing and celebration of learning. In an education setting, social media apps can encourage the sharing and building of new ideas and learning, as well as provide opportunities to offer peer assessment and feedback. Most social media tools utilize different forms of multimedia and text. On this page, three of the most common and widely-used social media apps, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat, are profiled.
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