Title: 10 Strategies To Help Students Use Social Media For Critical Thinking |
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10 Strategies To Help Students Use Social Media For Critical Thinking
by Terry Heick
Technology & ‘Social Emotion’
Connecting Students
10 Strategies To Help Students Use Social Media For Critical Thinking
1. Think purpose, not platform.
2. Use social media to establish context.
3. Model intellectual tolerance.
4. Illuminate interdependence.
5. Extend conceptual comfort zones.
6. Clarify categories of knowledge.
7. Analyze and compare citizenship and digital citizenship.
8. Amplify cognition.
9. Analyze how the form affects the message.
10. Seek authenticity.
About The Author
Terry Heick

Content: Further, offer digital citizenship strategies like “THINK!” so they have a kind of framework for doing so on their own. 8. Amplify cognition. Have a new idea? Share it with others who are interested in those kinds of ideas. Document the ‘process’ of that idea–where it came from, how it changed, what influenced it, what you can do with it, and so on. Amplify that understand using the connected and creative abilities of social media. 9. Analyze how the form affects the message.