Human Tech - Findery A Novel Social Platform For Your Classroom

Social media has invaded every facial expression of our lives, including  the classroom, in addition to the 2013 schoolhouse yr volition live on no different. H5N1 2012 written report of 4,000 higher didactics professionals establish that a sum 3rd (33.8%)of faculty respondents are using social media – including Twitter, Facebook, blogs in addition to wikis – to assistance brand lessons to a greater extent than engaging in addition to existent for today’s students.

Now, at that topographic point is a novel participatory media platform called Findery. Founded yesteryear Caterina Fake – the entrepreneur behind Flickr in addition to Hunch – Findery is helping brand lessons come upward live on through attaching stories, life events in addition to piffling known facts to places on a map that solely people “in the know” tin provide.


Findery is a slap-up resources for educators, in addition to the fellowship has launched a programme called Findery U to arrive slowly to comprise private content in addition to participatory media materials into existing lesson plans. Findery U taps into the increased relevance of applied scientific discipline inwards the classroom to assistance students improve sympathise in addition to position amongst the globe simply about them. The site has developed lesson plans in addition to suggestions for how higher didactics professionals tin role the site to engage their students inwards an unexpected way.