Pinning Down Innovation!
Student spend a lot of time on social media platforms, why not make use of them to facilitate learning!
Pinterest is a user-friendly tool used for exploring, getting inspired, and finding & sharing new and interesting ideas. This tool can be used as a platform for collaboration; sharing thoughts, ideas, and opinions through features such as: pinning, following friends, creating boards and chatting. This platform promotes social interaction and sharing, rather than keeping ownership of your work. BBCActive (2010), highlights the following ways in which Pinterest can be used as an educational tool:
- Students and teachers alike can compile content, inclusive of video content
- Ideas and concepts can be clearly organized and stored
- Teachers can connect and comment on students’ work
- Collaborative initiatives can be set up through the use of community boards
Pinterest can easily be used to tailor learning tasks to specific curriculum expectations. Pinterest provides an excellent platform from which students can explore a vast amount of information related to any given content area. Since students can explore independently within a collaborative community their learning is more personalized, while at the same time contributing to the building of knowledge of all students involved. Through chat options and community boards, collaboration becomes an integral part of this learning platform.
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Active, B. (2010). Using Pinterest for Education. Retrieved March 10, 2017, from http://www.bbcactive.com/BBCActiveIdeasandResources/UsingPinterestforEducation.aspx
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