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7 Post 1: Instructional Design in Social Media Considerations.

 As instructional designers, it is certainly important that we incorporate appropriate models and design principles when it comes to learning. The design process could look different, but the overall goal should always aim to achieve the established learning objectives. When incorporating social media into learning, I agree that it is essential to consider the value and strategy to support learning. While reading the "Instructional Design and Development for Social Media Lessons" article, learning about the SCOPE acronym served as a helpful guideline in determining whether social media should be used. 

Before learning about the SCOPE-guided questions, I assumed that the only thing we needed to think about was whether the media lesson supported the learning objectives. Other aspects like the conditions, ethics, and values were not things I assumed would have been important. The most surprising part. of the questions to consider was, as it was something I would not have thought about before using social media for lessons. However, I had a unique experience this week with the NKA assignment connecting why ethics matter. 

While doing my posting to TikTok this week for the NKA assignment, my video on a resource got taken down because of improper disclosure of the content. While I disagreed with TikTok's policies because I cited the source, it made sense that they were worried about the content's integrity. With that, I had to consider a different approach to sharing my resources the following day by ensuring I was more explicit in the description and content manipulation. Ethics should be more discussed when in the design process, especially at the beginning of planning to avoid later issues in instructional design. 


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Article: Vanessa P Dennen, Instructional Design and Development for Social Media Lessons

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