Cal4INO-presentation: Learning creativity with the use of social media
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This presentation has been made by Virpi Lund MEd, lecturer at the Laurea University of Applied Sciences.
Cal4INO-presentation: Learning creativity with the use of social media
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- 2. * Starting point: *Planning a studyunit to increase creativity by the use of Social Media *Creative methods used in contact lessons in classrooms within social service studies: music, drama, arts & crafts, sports , photography etc. *Social media known by students and used during studies: Optima (virtual classroom), Skype, Connect Pro, Google tools, FB, Twitter, Youtube etc. *Students have already learnt how to make innovations, how to be creative during their socalled Business spirit studies (B-Spirit)
- 3. Questions: 1. Can we teach creative methods in social media? 2. Can we increase peoples creativeness and make it available to everybodys daily life by using social media? 3. Can people experience and produce creativity and new ideas by the use of social media? 4. Can we make people inspired, co-operative and innovative by the use of social media?
- 4. Objectives: *To plan in groups a happening or workshop in social media by using creative methods *To increase learning and creativeness by the use of social media *To learn how to use the social media as a tool of counselling creative methods, sharing ideas, making new things and innovate together
- 5. Implementation: 1. The instructions needed in the beginning: -Instructions of how to use the social media, how to behave in social media, instructions of the tools of social media. -Instructions of dialogue -Organizing the counselling needed (mainly discussion arenas) 2. Writing about how one uses social media oneself and gathering information and writing how people in average use the social media.
- 6. 3. Reading articles of how creativity is found in everyday life and preparing a mind-map of it. 4. Planning in a group of 4 students how to councel a happening or workshop virtually to a chosen group. Implementing the workshop. Keeping a diary and document it. 5. Meeting regularly with the other students in social media and sharing peer-to peer advice, evaluation, ideas etc. 6. Writing an article to a blog about the implementation and evaluation of the workshop. Reading the other students articles. 7. Evaluating the studyunit; learning creative methods, counselling the group, using social media and its advantages and disadvantages and suitability for learning creative methods.
- 7. Implementations (examples): 1) A common jogging event on Sunday morning. 2) Drawing with 3-6 year old children and organizing an art exhibition in FB. 3 )A common happening (Flash Mob) in the area of the main railway station to join to Elephants Marching. 4) A photograph tells more than 1000 words.
- 8. Results: What did we learn about this? *our young students know alot about social media and can use it *social media is quite an open space for creativeness and there are no limits *it is easy to find people to co-operate and share their ideas in social media *social media seems to be availble for ordinary people *feedback was positive *the daily creativity and suitable tools seem to be the basis for innovative work
- 9. * *What creative are you doing in social media? Personally and at work? What is creative? *Are your students familiar with creative methods and social media? List of social media? *Can our students work/study together in these kinds of study units (in a common virtual working space)? What more do we need? *Do we have common interests to make innovations together?
- 10. Thank You and Have a Nice Summer!