Lesson 7 - Choosing Media

7.4. Skills Development

Social media, when well designed within an educational framework, can help with the development of the following skills (click on each to see examples):

• Digital literacy: this web site was designed by the Library at the University of British Columbia to enable students to manage their digital identity
• Independent and self-directed learning: this is a Wiki built by UBC math graduate students to provide assistance to undergraduate students in their exams
• Collaboration/collaborative learning/teamwork; this was a class project to build Wikipedia entries on Latin American literature by a third-year undergraduate class at UBC
• Internationalisation/development of global citizens
• Networking and other inter-personal skills
• Knowledge management; students at UBC use social media to research emerging technologies and build a possible educational business around the technology
• Decision-making in specific contexts (for example, emergency management, law enforcement)