5 Ways eWorkbooks Inspire Social Learning Engaging Screenagers

Dr Warren listening to Engage Screenagers in his audience
5 Ways eWorkbooks Inspire Social Learning Engaging Screenagers
By using eWorkbooks you can monitor Moments of Growth, increase student engagement, encourage online collaboration, and make online learning more valuable.
Here are 4 ways eWorkbooks can inspire social learning in your classrooms.
Relationships
Because eWorkbooks allow more sharing and interaction they naturally help build relationships. (optimal engagement)


This includes relationships among the students as they get to know one another so they encourage and develop that social learning.
Also, eWorkbooks encourage building relationships with you as a teacher because you can interact and celebrateMoments of Growth both inside the classroom and outside of the classroom.
Remember to set limits for outside of the classroom interaction, and these limits can include responding to questions and submissions at specific times of the day, not too late at night (junk engagement), etc.
Using eWorkbooks in the classroom teachers become more of a ‘guide on the side’ where it’s much easier to build trust, and when students experience those authentic Moments of Growth situations outside of the classroom they are more likely to share through the eWorkbooks.
Look at interacting with Facebook and Chats on the phone and you see they trust and share Moments of Growth with friends in what they’ve found, learned, created, etc.
Know Their Interests
What is getting to know someone? What is social learning? Isn’t it learning together and sharing understanding based on different points of view, experiences, and interests?
Dr Warren listening to Engage Screenagers in his audience
Dr Warren listening to Engage Screenagers in his audience






Using eWorkbooks, learners make their differences common which helps to bridge their Moments of Growth learning experiences to those of other students. (optimal engagement)
If done well, you can create more social, supportive atmospheres because the students are encouraging one another to follow their dreams and pursue their interests.
Know Their Distractions
Remember, anything that is an interest can also become a distraction.
If one student is interested in football (for example) then instead of applying the learning content to football he can be quite easily distracted by the latest football news. (junk engagement)
In the world today, students are continually getting content pushed at them from friends, sellers, teachers, etc., and as their life experiences are limited, students can have a difficulty choosing priorities.   
Because the eWorkbooks are so interactive, using them provides a great deal of opportunities to help Engaging Screenagers build their prioritizing muscles. (optimal engagement)
Build insight with student information
As the school term continues it’s inevitable that teachers will get to know insights information about their students. (optimal engagement)
In the past, as a teacher, I would get massive insight from students when I marked their final papers but by then it was too late.
Now, having my students use eWorkbooks and then my spending just a little time reviewing the students submissions after class, I can get a great deal of insightful information about each of my students.


In the past I would rely on paper worksheets or presentations made in class, and I would get a little information about my students but not as much as I can collect using eWorkbooks.
Because all of the eWorkbook information is contained in a spreadsheet, I’ll spend far less time reviewing and learning to get student information.
Also, eWorkbooks allow teachers to include a few questions throughout the eWorkbook to gain insight about student preferences.
For example, I have students evaluate videos by after they watch them or have students do an A/B split test.
In a split test, ½ of my students will watch one video and ½ will watch a different video, and when I read my students’ responses and video evaluations, I can see which video is better.
Also, most all the time I will add an extra question, here and there, to collect data analytics on Moments of Growth, engagement in the classroom, my teaching, my communication, different activities, or even the exercises in the eWorkbook.
The data analytics I get from these questions are huge because it takes very little extra time for the students, and I get a great deal of information and insight about my students’ learning and preferences.
Having that information, I note what they like and what they don’t like, and then use that information as a base for my decisions on future social exercises, activities, and contests. (optimal engagement)
Social exercises/activities/contests
In the past I would lead the students into exercises, activities, and sometimes contests and generally there were a few students who just didn’t want to engage and participate passionately. (optimal engagement)
As everyone has different experiences and preferences, I think part of the lack of passion  has to do with not being able to know well all my students interests and preferences.
Using eWorkbooks it’s quite natural to include several different styles of exercises and activities. (optimal engagement)
With this variety of exercises it teachers have a much higher likelihood of including interests of most all the students with more passionate involvement and engagement.
I’m not saying that as a teacher you can connect and have every student love every activity in your classroom, but what I am saying is that by using an eWorkbook you have a much higher likelihood of making a connection with most all of your students.

Because eWorkbooks are already in the students hands and they’re answering and submitting their responses already, it’s natural for them to continue this habit (and generate loads of data analytics for me) on an ongoing basis.
Seeing the students engage and experience those Moments of Growth, is quite fulfilling for me as a teacher.
Couldn’t teachers create and use eWorkbooks in their classes to learn more about their Engaging Screenagers?
Wouldn’t it be better for the learners and teachers alike, to use eWorkbooks to monitor Moments of Growth and gain student Optimal Engagement?
Won’t the learners be penalized most when educators hold back and not use eWorkbooks to support learning?

Use eWorkbooks, inspire social learning-optimal experiences.

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Remember to engage tomorrow.
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Keep it simple.
All the Best, Warren
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