Abstract
Most first year college students tell stories of "getting caught" on their laptops Facebooking or MySpacing. They are members of multiple social networks, with highly developed online communication and multitasking skills, so desirable in today's job market. However, few have honed those skills in ways that make them productive in the classroom or the workplace. Professor Valerie Scott of Ramapo College developed a 1st Year Seminar course, "Social Networking and Sustainability," using "banned" social networks, to broaden students' skill set from social networking to “collaborative networked learning.” She assigned sustainability for small-group collaboration because of its importance on the Ramapo campus, multiple viewpoints available to students, and the plethora of international, intercultural social media available. What she found mirrored Mashable's 2009 "STUDY: 80% of Twitter Users Are All about Me." There was some excitement at being in such a "different" class, but also resistance to moving beyond "me" and toward effective collaboration. Just because students had collaborated in gaming or music did not mean they understood how to do so in her course. It turned out she had to teach collaboration to Millennials, the collaboration generation! This session focuses on lessons learned in how best to do just that.
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