This is a list of the principles generated by the hack groups (generally two principles per group).

How can social media practices help:

Hack 1

Freedom of choice
Respect diversity
Allow students & staff the freedom to have an identity (or various identities) that they do not need to disclose within the context of their learning
Create a special learning and teaching community for collective, collaborative learning = disciplinary identity
Facilitate entry point to professional networks/ break down barriers (virtual and physical)
Developing or evolving identities in multiple personal and professional networks
Valuing difference in yourself and others, being civil and inclusive
Enabling informed choice and empowering through awareness of options
Embedding mutual respect and trust in learning And teaching environments, online and/or offline

Support people to enter the community
Form a collective ethos (organically)
Encourage positive but critical feedback
Promote positive silent observation
To enhance the communication channels between staff and students (combining instant and recorded/revisitable, frequency of interaction)
Removing barriers and exposure to people beyond one’s immediate physical vicinity enhances communication networks
Connecting with like-minded individuals and professionals via social media allows students to slowly (or at their own pace) enter the community of practice in their chosen discipline
Crowdsourcing/co-creation via social media enhances a sense of belonging and gives access to a greater diversity of perspectives, facilitating critical reflection

Listen, reflect and then respond (if you choose to)
Encourage debate to span multiple spaces, including out of sight of the institution
Social media removes the “walls” of the classroom to enable wider discussion
Rules of engagement, agreed set of behaviours
Social media can enable the process of learning rather than assimilating content. Sage on the stage vs guide on the side vs crowd-sourced knowledge?
Respect multiple levels of engagement
Burst the filter bubble!!!!!
Learn to time travel
Learn to process (or not)
Providing the opportunity to students to engage across disciplines, departments, continents. And across cultural backgrounds
Providing space and time for everyone to reflect properly on what is being said and what they might want to say- to develop personal perspectives

Self-formed virtual nations based on shared interests
Participation comes with an understanding that their are collective rights and responsibilities
Being aware of and embracing institutional risk in the use of social media
Engagement and networking to enable inclusive, open and fair opportunities for learning and teaching
Enable the transfer of knowledge to and from the classroom (between the classroom and the world beyond) to bring about opportunities for authentic lifelong learning.

Equip students to evaluate and interrogation sources – information capabilities
The social media you is a source, and deserving that same evaluation and interrogation
Provide opportunities for open and honest interactions
Understanding authenticity in different contexts
Developing a culture of sharing stories where authenticity needs to be questioned
Being human is super important
Must embed digital literacy
Student and staff generated content can define and create authenticity

Working in the open, sharing work in progress and being in perpetual beta
Collaboration and remixing: build – break – rebuild
Social media context is the right context for knowledge
The Wikipedia model shows that knowledge is growing, fluid, and could be used positively in teaching and learning
Offer learners a range of opportunities to share and collaborate with people beyond your tutor or class
Making work (especially assessed work) open rather than hidden, ensuring that degree of openness is an informed decision