By Jennifer Casa-Todd
Amplify Student Voice by Connecting Students to Each Other & the World
Abstract
Reluctance to embrace the use of social media in the K-12 classroom and libraries means there is limited research on the extent to which a guided approach to using social media might support students in an educational context. This narrative inquiry study focuses on the Ontario Educational Student Chat (ONedSschat) to determine the extent to which students who were part of the organizing team developed increased levels of student voice and agency. Data examined includes student tweets, archived webinars, interviews with two adult mentors and one student, podcasts and webinars. Teacher-librarians can play a tremendous role in mentoring students develop student voice by using a contextual approach like #ONedSschat (now #GlobalEdSschat)
Jennifer Casa-Todd is wife, mom, a teacher-librarian in Ontario Canada, a former literacy consultant, a Google Certified Innovator, and the author of the books, Social LEADia and Raising Digital Leaders (Summer 2020). She is passionate about showing teachers and students how they can use technology and social media to make the world a better place.