Instagram in Education Infographic by Ann Vega
This infographic is short and sweet but still inspiring in many ways! It really got my brain going on ways to use photography as a way of showing our learning in 4th grade! I loved the idea of using imagery in math. When studying geometry every year I have my students make a “geo dictionary” where they copy down definitions and draw pictures of all of their geometry terms and then connect those terms to real world objects. Using photographs and going for a “photo walk” around campus is an even more powerful way to help students connect to what they are learning. Instagram is blocked at my school but instead of making paper geo dictionaries we could make ibooks with photos and publish them online. We could also collaborate using sites like edmodo to see everyone’s work. In science I loved the idea of taking pictures of different ecosystems and posting them (could be a HW assignment to try to find as many different ecosystems near their home as possible). Another idea that I thought of from this was taking pictures of each step of the scientific method during a lab and then storifying it. How cool would that turn out? #feelinginspired
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Again, so inspired by these innovative teachers using great technology inside and outside the classroom. Catlin Tucker, a 9th and 10th grade English teacher came up with an awesome field trip scavenger hunt using instagram. She explains that instagram is the newest way that students are connecting socially, so why not use this great tool for students to connect socially and academically? She created a list of things that students needed to find and photograph during their field trip. The students would tag the class account and use a common hashtag to connect all of the scavenger hunt photos. Students would create captions for each photograph to share what they learned on the field trip. I love this engaging and exciting way of connecting students to their learning and to each other. What a fun and creative way to collaborate! My mind is always on 4th grade, so again I am trying to think of a way that this could be used in a younger classroom. My first thought was to have the students grouped with parent chaperones. If the chaperones were comfortable with the idea, I’d love to have them bring their smart phones and allow (help) students to take photos and come up with captions as a group. The parent could then use our class hashtag and we could look at all of the photos together on the SmartBoard back at school. It could even become a competition and each group could have a team name, etc. I am thinking when we visit mission San Diego next year this would be such a fun activity to do after the tour. Each group could have 15 minutes to go back around the mission and take photos of scavenger hunt items.
http://catlintucker.com/2013/02/instagram-scavenger-hunt/