Mini Project #3

http://storify.com/jokeiga/peer-based-learning-in-social-media/preview

For my 3^rd mini project, I decided to use storify to show examples of how peer based learning is shown in social media. I wanted to do things differently by focusing on social media instead of defining what peer based learning is. As shown in my story on storify, I’ve provided excellent examples of how peer based learning is assimilated into different types of media. Mimi Ito states in her book “HOMAGO” that the growth of social media in young people’s daily lives is a part of important changes that structure young people’s learning. The way I interpret her statement is that social media has so much of an important role in young people’s lives that most of their learning comes from social media. For example, I could learn a fun fact about a subject just by reading someone’s status on Facebook. I could even learn how to get a 6 pack just by watching a YouTube video made by someone else. There are many ways of how peer learning is incorporated into social media, so many that I would not be able to show all them in one project but I hope you understand some of the examples I’ve shown in my storify.