Why Your Digital Identity Matters: Education and Engagement via Social Media

Slides from my keynote at the National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition (NRCFYESIT) National Conference on Students In Transition.

When students transition, they bring their digital identity with them...and that matters, a lot. Social media have become our primary communication channels for expression and interaction.

Educators need to take a comprehensive, nuanced, and engagement-oriented approach to teaching social media and digital identity to all students.

Keywords: digital identity, digital literacy, grit, engagement, retention, persistence, transition, support, success, academic advising, career services, orientation, first year, transfer programs, Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, LinkedIn, Yik Yak, and YouTube.

Transcript

1. @ericstoller #SIT15 digital identity Education & Engagement
2. @ericstoller #SIT15
3. #SIT15
4. What happens online matters. #SIT15 digital identity
5. “it blurs social & professional” – a Twitter user who happens to be an academic #SIT15
9. retention persistence engagement success transition #SIT15
12. Social media is a facet: teaching, learning, & transition.
14. academic advising career services orientation first year success transfer programs #SIT15
15. social listening #SIT15
18. #SIT15 digital literacy / grit
19. #SIT15 #SIT15
23. shared humanity context / perception enjoy / engage always learning trial / error #SIT15
27. questions + answers @ericstoller #SIT15
28. ericstoller.com/work ericstoller@gmail.com #SIT15