Facebook
What Is Verification?
One of the most important skills news consumers and social media users must develop is the ability to determine the veracity of stories they read or view. Here's an interactive lesson plan that teaches high schoolers how to verify news...
Teaching Tolerance
Tweeting for Change
Do some good with social media. Secondary scholars participate in a live Twitter chat focusing on social justice issues. The thought-provoking activity allows academics to set up a live chat, create responses, and express their personal...
Facebook
Different Perspectives
What do people's social media profiles say about them? Explore diverse perspectives and digital citizenship in an activity designed with self-identity in mind. Pupils reflect on their own profiles, then collaborate to examine...
Social Media Toolbox
Twitter Time
Tweet all about it! Junior journalists explore the Twittersphere to determine its effectiveness as a news broadcasting tool in the 12th installment of the 16-part Social Media Toolbox. Participants follow and record their observations of...
Blogger
Math Is, Tweet Strips
Finish this tweet: "Math is ..." In this activity, your charges complete a unique 140-character tweet on what math is to them. This pdf needs to be downloaded to see it in its entirety. There is space for four tweets with blank spaces...
Curated OER
Twitter Tweet Chapter Summary
Students use Twitter to complete a literature analysis. For this literature and technology lesson, students read chapters from a piece of literature and write summaries. Students use Twitter to communicate about the literature.
Curated OER
Social Networking in Today’s World
Students explore social networking in today's world. In this ESL lesson, students discuss the various methods of social networking then complete a vocabulary assignment and brainstorming activity to reinforce the topic.
Curated OER
Miley Cyrus Quits Twitter
For this Miley Cyrus quits Twitter worksheet, 6th graders read or listen to a passage, discuss 5 warm up exercises, answer 30 pre-reading, while reading and post-reading questions included fill ins, synonyms, matching,true and false,...
Pew Research Center
Pew Research Center: Teens, Social Media & Technology Overview 2015
Discusses the findings from a research study on how teens use popular social media and social networking sites. The study looked at the different sites, tools, and apps that are being used, with Facebook ranking the highest. It also...
CNN
Cnn Money: Twitter, Pipe Dream or Next Big Thing?
Twitter has taken the world by storm, even made its name a verb, but are they challenged late in the game to try making money from the service? This article examines this question in depth.
Other
Queens University: Social Media Accessibility
This resource describes the problems related to social media accessibility for individuals with special needs and offers suggestions on how to work around some of them to make the content more accessible. The information is also...
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Twitter
What is all the fuss about Twitter? Wikipedia provides a detailed overview of the trendy social network.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Visualizing the World's Twitter Data
Good morning, Twitter! Millions of tweets are sent everyday, and from these tweets, we can gather a lot of information about people's lives: where they travel, when they wake up, and their opinions on pretty much everything. Jer Thorp...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Using Online Technology to Explore Characterization and Style
Students use social networking sites to trace the development of characters by assuming the persona of a character on the class Ning and sending a set number of tweets, or status updates.
Goodwill
Gcf Global: Social Media: Tutorial: Twitter
Tutorial explains what Twitter is and how it is used. Through lessons, interactives, videos, and additional links, it teaches students how to navigate within Twitter and how to use its many different functions and applications.
Learn My Way
Learn My Way: Socializing Online
In this online course, students will learn all about different social networks such as Twitter, Pinterest and Google+ and how to stay in control of your information and stay safe.
Other
University of Wisconsin Stout: Twitter Rubric
A rubric that can be used for assessing how students use Twitter when working on an assignment.
Other
Twitter is an virtual community that responds to the simple question, "What are you doing?" You can interact by phone, IM or on the web. This quick form of interaction is being used by Web 2.0 educators to connect quickly, encourage and...
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: 10 Ways to Use Social Media in the Classroom
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides ten ways to incorporate social media to classroom instruction and writing initiatives.