Don't BReckless with Social Media!

Social media is sometimes painted as a dark and scary place. I prefer to see it as a place where all the lights are on, as the world is watching social media. Constantly.  If you don't believe me, watch anyone between the ages of 14-25. Our eyes are constantly glued to a screen and receiving input from there, or as my #PGCEmix lecturer likes to put it, students are constantly "staring at their laps and smiling". 

Instead of letting social media control us, let's master it and control it. 

Therefore, after reading the blogs written by Davis and Provenzano, I have devised ways of mastering technology in my lessons to gets students captivated. 

My Curriculum Studies specializations are Accounting and Mathematical Literacy, 

Accounting

- Use online shopping sites such as Superbalist to track the effect and stages of a transaction. 

- Furthermore use the transaction to work out VAT. 

- Use Social Media blogs and comment sections to add onto other students definition of assets, liabilities and owners equity. 

- For research into company culture, try get a company to reply to your tweet.

- Inspect a companies Facebook profile for information for projects.

Mathematical Literacy

- Use twitter retweets to calculate the effect of exponential growth. 

- Calculate probabilities of Instagram likes with or without #Hashtags. 

- Calculate the pattern and relationship between the amount of #Hastags and retweets. 

- Time the average amount of time it takes to get a instagram like at different times of the day, to calculate how frequent people are visiting social media. 

The possibilities are running wild and my mind is racing. I just thought to myself, I should write these down for future reference... then I remembered I was writing it on a blog so its not going anywhere. 

Woah. Sometimes I sound silly. 

Thank you for this task, it has given me a brilliant idea for my next Glaskas.