Social Media and Gaming in the classroom

Which is not a benefit of using games/gamification in the class.

• Promotes Persistence

• Student engagement

• All students go to college

• Empowers students

Answer explanation

Benefits of gaming: empowers students, promotes persistence, develops social skills, plans for risk-taking, and student engagement (Cassie, 2022).

Social media in the classroom can provide smoother communication between teachers, parents, and students.

True or False?

• True

• False

Answer explanation

For more information visit 12 ways to use social media or education (West, 2021).

What three questions should you ask yourself when thinking about your own media balance?

• What? When? How much?

• Where? Who? How?

• Here? There? Everywhere?

What type of media do you use daily? Mark all that apply.

• Movies - Netflix, Hulu, Prime Video

• Youtube

• video games

• Music-spotify, radio

• Social media-instagram, tick tock, snapchat

what social media app has the most cyberbullying?

• facebook

• instagram

• youtube

• snapchat

 What is Netiquette?

•  The proper use of manners and etiquette on the Internet.
• Using a net to catch fish.
• Being mean to other people on Facebook.
• Using proper manners at the dinner table.

Answer explanation

Teaching netiquette at the beginning of school and throughout the year is essential.

Which of these is cyber-bullying?

• Flame mail.
• Hate mail.
• Posting mean comments on a discussion board.
• All of the above.

Keeping your address, photo, school, phone number and email private online are examples of being

• boring

• cybersafe

• creative

• paranoid

Safe and acceptable classroom games must____, pick all that apply.

• Be age appropriate

• Be embedded with content

• Engaging and fun

• All of the above

Select 3 teacher benefits of using social media. Select all that apply.

• Share best practices

• Become very popular and get many likes

• Cultivate Digital Citizenship

• Build more connected school communities

Answer explanation

Common sense education

(Higgin, T. 2017)