Yesterday I gave a keynote presentation at a schools conference entitled " The Social Learning Revolution", where I talked about the impact that social media was having on learning both inside and outside the school classroom.
During my presentation I mentioned a number of tools that could help classroom teachers provide a collaborative "networked learning" approach to classroom-based learning.
Although up to now I haven't really focused on school-based learning, let alone social learning in the school classroom, this is clearly a very important area, and I have been asked for some more resources in this area
So, today, I've begun by adding a new section to my Directory of Learning Tools called Social Learning Tools for the School Classroom - that is those tools and platforms particularly targeted at or useful for learners aged 5-18. As this is a huge age range, the list is also sub-categorised as follows, ie tools suitable for:
Key stage 1 : years 1-2, ages 5-7
Key Stage 2 : years 3-6, ages 7-11
Key Stage 3 : years 7-9, ages 11-14
Key Stage 4 : years 10-11, ages 14-16
Key Stage 5 (Sixth Form) : years 12-13, ages 16-18
But I would like your help to build this list. So if you are a school teacher (or a provider of social and collaboration tools for schools) and you would like to recommend a tool for the list, please do so in the comments section at the bottom of the listing (ie not in this posting!!), and I will add the tool to the page in the Directory'. Thanks for your help.
BTW the Directory already contains over 2,000 tools in 12 categories.
