Social Media and Schools

Social Media and School Counseling

Positives in Social Media

Pitfalls in Social Media

The Future

Ethical Concerns

100

One of the most common forms of social media used in schools to communicate easily and quickly with colleagues, administrators, parents, and students.

What is email?

100

Social media can make this easier between school counselors, teachers, parents, students and administration. Defined as the imparting or exchanging of information.

What is communication?

100

This is the use of the internet and related technologies to harm other people, in a deliberate, repeated, and hostile manner.

What is cyber-bullying?

100

A term for conducting all school business in a digital format (homework, records, etc..) through social media outlets, while at the same time preserving natural resources.

What is paperless?

100

Going to www.google.com and typing in someone's name provides an example of this.

What is your Professional/Digital Footprint?

200

An informative and interesting way to share visual information including movie clips and real world scenarios with groups and as a part of classroom guidance lessons.

What is Youtube?

200

A study, which analyzed how students performed when asked to use Twitter to do assignments, found that students who were asked to "contribute to class discussions and complete assignments using Twitter increased this over a semester more than twice as much as a control group." hint: another word for getting married

What is engagement?

200

A person seen as obtaining or trying to obtain sexual contact with another person by "hunting" for them on the internet. Students can be exposed to this type of person when using social media.

What is a sexual predator?

200

Each student will have one of these in order to stay connected and engaged in the classroom.

What is a personal computer or iPad?

200

This certain bond between client and counselor can be broken when information from personal conversations is posted on various social networking sites.

What is confidentiality?

300

School counselors can use this to disseminate information to others including special opportunities for students and parents, a master calendar, and links to informative webpages.

What is a website?

300

Tech savvy school counselors are using these as a tool to keep parents, teachers, and students informed of the things going on in their schools. Entries to these also provide a good platform for discussion.

What are blogs?

300

School counselors may experience an invasion of this by using social media in their personal or professional life.

What is privacy?

300

This type of online community will safely give teachers and students a place to communicate and collaborate around school subjects and projects outside of the classroom in real-time.

What are private social networks?

300

Mr. Hunter checks his personal Facebook on a daily basis. He recently receives and confirms a friend request from one of the student's he meets with regularly for counseling. This student now engages in conversations posted on this teacher's personal Facebook page. The scenario describes this type of relationship.

What is a dual relationship?

400

This can be used to reach students with Counseling Department reminders and scholarship deadlines. It is frequented often by students and is the most popular among 18 - 34 year olds.

What is a Facebook page?

400

By using social media, school counselors can prepare students for this type of learning. This term is of utmost importance in education today and is generally used to refer to certain core competencies such as collaboration, digital literacy, critical thinking, problem solving, and ensuring students are prepared for the world they will contribute to.

What is 21st Century learning?

400

Some school counselors are reluctant to use social media as the main source for communication because not all students and parents have access to the internet in their home. The fear is that this gap will be widened.

What is socioeconomic?

400

Every counselor and teacher will have their own one of these to communicate and hold discussions with parents and students in an open format online.

What is a blog?

400

This traditional school problem between students has taken an online course of action and has made it even harder to detect and to pursue within in the school system.

What is cyberbullying?

500

Because of recent budget cuts most school counselors are limited on time. Teachers, students, or parents are better able to reach the school counselor through social media. Some say that social media has made the school counselor more this.

What is accessible?

500

School counselors rely heavily on this type of communicating to gauge characteristics and emotions of students/clients. This type of communication is lost through the use of social media.

What is non-verbal communication?

500

This type of website can be used by counselors to involve the visitor in an ongoing process of creation and collaboration that constantly changes the website. Counselors can use it to network with other counselors and upload or share important ideas and documents.

What are wikis?

500

This legal violation comes when an individual uses material provided by someone else for their own personal advancement.