Lesson 03
Teaching in the Social Media Age
Digital Platforms for Teaching · Technology
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Cossette begins with the steady turnover of classroom technology: chalkboards, projectors, smartboards, flash drives, shared documents and constant internet access. These tools change quickly, while the teacher’s purpose remains helping students understand, practise and grow.
He identifies two pressures created by networked life. Information is always available, which shifts some of the teacher’s work towards selecting trustworthy material, supplying context and helping students use what they find. Social platforms also turn approval into visible numbers. Likes, streaks and notifications compete for attention and make classroom work feel slow by comparison.
His response is experiential. He creates memorable science demonstrations, lets students document selected moments and uses online networks to connect the class with a wider community. Discussion and interpretation then turn the event into learning.
The talk closes with the teacher as curator and guide. Students can retrieve information quickly; they still need help judging it, connecting it with other ideas and creating something meaningful. Before making a classroom activity public, check its effect on attention, consent, privacy, misinformation and unequal access.
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Cloud documents and one-to-one devices have made constant collaboration feel ordinary.
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Easy retrieval changes which knowledge needs fluency and which can be located when needed.
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Visible approval and notifications create a persistent competition for student attention.
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A memorable classroom event earns its place through a clear learning purpose.
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Selective feeds can reinforce existing beliefs and circulate weak claims.
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Teachers help students evaluate abundant information, build connections and create with it.
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Additional resources
Use these readings and tools to check sources, extend the topic or apply it in your teaching.
UNESCO Global Education Monitoring Report
Technology in education: A tool on whose terms?
Evidence and policy questions on access, governance, teacher capacity and the educational value of technology.
OECD
PISA 2022: Digital devices, distraction and school policies
Large-scale evidence on purposeful device use, distraction and the role of school policies.
American Psychological Association
Health advisory on social media use in adolescence
A careful account of how effects vary with the learner, content, platform feature and context.
Association of College and Research Libraries
Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education
A durable framework for authority, inquiry, information creation and strategic searching.
Digital Inquiry Group
Civic Online Reasoning
Free classroom tasks for evaluating online sources and claims.