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"Before social media, students rarely knew their teachers beyond their
professional position in the classroom. Perhaps we might bump into them in the
neighbourhood, at a supermarket, or in a restaurant. But as students, we knew
little about teachers “off duty”.
Today, much has changed. During COVID, many teachers joined the social media
platform TikTok as a way of communicating with and connecting with students
they could not see in person.
TikTok enables users to upload short videos (between three and 10 minutes
long), which often feature music in the background as an audio meme, and other
filters or text.
You might have seen teachers on TikTok dancing to the latest viral song with
their students. Or dressing in costumes to illustrate how many different jobs
they do in a given day.
While some of them share behind-the-scenes snippets of their day jobs, others
use the most popular audio, dance, and meme trends to convey educational
messages."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
