Ah, Facebook. Remember it? Didn’t it go the way of mySpace, Friendster and Bebo? Isn’t it so, like, last decade? Well, not quite. It might not be the hip place to be anymore and it’s remarkable growth has certainly slowed, but it’s still the behemoth of social media and almost half the people you know will be on there, somewhere.
And, importantly, it’s still a great way to share and pick up ideas. And it’s painless. Like the right pages and you’ll get stuff paraded in front of you automatically. Almost automatically – the more pages and posts you like and comment on, the more stuff you’ll get put in front of you. Stay passive and the Facebook systems will lose interest in giving you news and tools that might, just, make your work that bit more rewarding.
So ‘like’ these pages and get the best EdTech in your feed.
The 5 Best EdTech Facebook Pages
Facebook In Education
Facebook In Education is probably the daddy of them all, in that it looks, self-referentially, at the ways in which Facebook is being used in the education industry. For the sheer scale of number (650k+), there’s not much interaction, but it’s a useful reference point to get a peek at things happening in the wider world.
ISTE
The ISTE is the International Society for Technology in Education and the tone of their page is exactly what that suggests – dry and more than a little academic. But there’s good stuff in their posts. The posts they reference are riddled with rigour. It makes you cleverer just knowing that they are there.
GEDB
The Global Education Database is the newest on here, with fewest likes and interaction. But their combination of product reviews, news from across the sector and free courses is a winning one. Eclectic, but guaranteed to spark some thought.
#EdChat
Not so much a Facebook page as a set of prompts to a Twitter conversation. #EdChat, as the hashtag indicates, is a Twitter discussion amongst educators, which happens every Tuesday. The Facebook page is a useful prompt on the topics and adds back-up resources.
Edutopia
There’s a whiff of the self-satisfied here, with the posting of ‘empowering’ slogans, but within all that, there’s some good stuff posted on Edutopia which can genuinely inspire you to think about education in a different way. There’s plenty of interaction too. And who doesn’t like the occasional empowering infographic?
