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STORYTELLING FOR EDUCATORS: Social Media Myths 101

 There are very popular myths around storytelling in the education space and I am here to debunk or validate some of them for us.

1. "Social Media is not meant for me": I promise you, we were all comfortably sitting on this table some time ago, I can't believe I used to tell myself things like social media isn't for me. Dear teacher, now I sit down and I regret why it took me so long, imagine how much more I would have achieved if I had just started earlier on. So these days when I hear educators tell me " I am not active on social media, I have accounts but I can't remember the passwords, I haven't gone online for a long time, I just go on social media to check other people's updates" I know that you are occupying a position I left a few months ago.

Agnes Onyekwere in a podcast
A while ago, I started a mentorship class for educators and one thing that I made sure to do was ensure they all dusted off their social media handles, when I asked everyone to drop their social media handles and then we follow each other, I had an uproar in the class, most of them had not made an original post in a very long time but then I made it compulsory for those who wanted to continue with the program then I gave them a day to fix their accounts and post details on the group. After a while, everyone had an up-and-running account.

2. "I need to have all my I(s) dotted and t(s) crossed" - This is so not true, and this is one of the main things keeping a lot of educators out the door instead of inside the rooms they should boldly occupy. During my mentorship class, I started a challenge, during this time, I would come up with a theme and then everyone would make a post on it depending on how the theme resonates with them. I heard complaints like, "ha! I don't know what to say oooo, how will I say what I want to say now?, I don't have the words" but when I made a practical example, made my own post of the same theme and walked them through it, I got everyone to do the post and viola! They had scaled through the first major obstacle, which is - Beginning!

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