{"id":504,"date":"2016-05-15T11:30:58","date_gmt":"2016-05-15T16:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ryanfukunaga.com\/?p=504"},"modified":"2023-07-18T13:16:52","modified_gmt":"2023-07-18T18:16:52","slug":"teaching-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ryanfukunaga.com\/?p=504","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Social Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ryanfukunaga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/social-media-signs.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-527 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/ryanfukunaga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/social-media-signs.png\" alt=\"social-media-signs\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Okay, so what do I teach?<\/p>\n<p>I read articles predicting trends that discuss what skills are necessary for the 21st Century work force. In a standard class, with learners who have basic computer skills, I focus on the basic employment skills (using basic Office features, writing good email, using search engines effectively, understanding what &#8220;the cloud&#8221; is, etc.) and some creative stuff as well (taking good pictures, poetry, etc.).<\/p>\n<p>I always have difficult explaining the importance of being able to use social media in the modern workplace. Even in looking for jobs, having a semi-private Facebook profile is a good thing and an updated LinkedIn profile is a plus even if you&#8217;re industry doesn&#8217;t hire directly from there.<\/p>\n<p>What I have found is many entry-level position still require some sort of traditional resume either through an online portal OR via email. Instruction becomes a balance between the immediate skills need to look for work and the long term skill-building that will help growth.<\/p>\n<p>So social media instruction becomes more about digital citizenship rather than effective marketing or development techniques. I&#8217;m going to continue thinking about this topic but this is where I stand at the moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, so what do I teach? I read articles predicting trends that discuss what skills are necessary for the 21st Century work force. In a standard class, with learners who have basic computer skills, I focus on the basic employment skills (using basic Office features, writing good email, using search engines effectively, understanding what &#8220;the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[9,15],"class_list":["post-504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-technology","tag-digital-citizenship","tag-media-literacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanfukunaga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanfukunaga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanfukunaga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanfukunaga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanfukunaga.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ryanfukunaga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":689,"href":"https:\/\/ryanfukunaga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions\/689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanfukunaga.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanfukunaga.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanfukunaga.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}