Facebook is a global social network. If you’re not already a user, you’ve probably heard of it, and if you haven’t, then today you’ll become part of the largest social network on the planet. Want a few statistics about Facebook?
- 1.28 billion monthly active users (a 15% increase year to year)
- 4.5 billion likes generated daily
- 802 million people log onto Facebook daily
- Five new profiles are created every second
- Photo uploads total 300 million per day
- Create a Facebook account. Click here to get started.
- Search for friends, family members, or colleagues and add them as friends to start making connections.
- Search on Facebook for your favorite educational groups, brands, celebrities, or authors and “like” their pages. Get started with these: Powerful Learning Practice, The Global Education Conference, Connected Educator Month.
- Curious about how to take Facebook into your classroom? Check out 100 Ways You Should be Using Facebook in your Classroom and the Facebook Guide for Educators.
- Should you be friends with your students? This debate, as well as the article The Why and How of Using Facebook For Educators – No Need to be Friends At All! tackles that topic as well as the overarching question, does Facebook belong in the classroom at all?
- This presentation features school leaders who ban & block Facebook as well as those who empower and prepare. It also provides examples of a teacher and students from The Science Leadership Academy who have had success using social media in education.
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