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*Use Of Social Media In Teaching Strategies
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Social media is the future of communication. It includes an array of internet-based tools and platforms that increase and enhance the experience of sharing information. The platform is all about community-based input, contact, content-sharing, and alliance. This interactive medium has a multitude of interesting things like forums, micro-blogging, social networking, social bookmarking, wikis and podcasts. Studies show that online social networks like Twitter, Facebook or MySpace have a great impact on youths’ lives.Social Media: The World of Networking
Benefits and Challenges of Using Social Media in the Classroom Benefits. Learn new digital literacy skills; Improve knowledge retention & understanding; Increase class participation and motivate students; Build community; connect students to each and the global community; Become an effective member of an online community. 7 Ways To Use Social Media in Education to Impact Student Learning 1. Use social media as an online ’classroom’. Social media doesn’t have to take students attention away from their. Keep students involved during snow days and school breaks. One of the key challenges for educators is to keep. Social media can help kids: stay connected with friends and family. Volunteer or get involved with a campaign, nonprofit, or charity. Enhance their creativity by sharing ideas, music, and art. Meet and interact with others who share similar interests. Communicate with educators and fellow students.
Here’s a quick look at the user statistics of a few social media platforms, which only prove the growing popularity of these websites.
*Facebook—1.6 billion
*Youtube—Billion-plus visitors
*Whatsapp—950 million
*Google plus—440 million
*Instagram—430 million
*LinkedIn—420 million
*Twitter—230 million
*ResearchGate—9 millionUniversity Learning
41% of American professors used social media as a teaching tool in 2013. In India, the National Program on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL) and e-learning engineering courses were viewed by 110 million people on Youtube till 2014. Teachers are now beginning to tap into the market of social media. Students too have realized its power. Social media has become a platform for common-minded people coming together. The multiple online discussion groups involve asking doubts, opinions about universities, new ideas, etc.Boosts Marketing
College events and fests are now getting propagated through online platforms. Social media helps to get both audience and sponsorship. Students can spread knowledge by sharing PDFs and links. Many universities use social media to market their courses online and make studying easier for children.Learning Management System
Most higher education institutions prefer a learning management system (LMS). Popular LMS are Desire2Learn, WebCT, Moodle, and Blackboard. They have been specifically designed for educational purposes in distance education and provide a software application for the administration. These systems record, track, report and deliver e-learning courses. Platforms like Moodle and Blackboard allow easy integration with social media services. Teachers can share the content through apps like Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn to provide quick help to students.The Positive and Negative Impact of Social Media on EducationPros
Distance learning models have an edge over campus-based counterparts. They are the future of university education and keep pace with new technologies. These models improve communication with students and also boost the learning experience. A study of the MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) shows that the student participation improved when the social media platforms were integrated with learning programs. Also, it had helped reduce the student drop-out rates.
Distance education courses are growing as more students are opting for them. 150 percent more students enrolled in them in the USA from 1998 to 2008. MOOC like Coursera serves around 1.3 million Indian students. 70% of students in India use smart phones, who form a huge target group for the MOOCs.ConsUse Of Social Media In Teaching Strategies
Students now spend more time online and end up wasting time. There have also been many cases of fraud institutes providing bogus degrees online and children fall into this trap. The teaching fraternity feels that the social websites have blurred the line between formal and informal writing. Students often use online jargon even while doing homework or writing exam papers. The new online fever has taken a hit at their inter-personal skills and made them averse to real communication. The physical and emotional imbalance caused by social media makes students irritable and dull.
Considering these pros and cons, it is necessary for parents to have certain regulations over the use of such social networking sites, especially for high school and college students. Students should think about what they are doing and decide how much time they want to spend on social media. The negative aspects should certainly not influence students’ education.
Social media such as Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, and Flickr, as well as open social practices such as blogging, are being used in learning for the purpose of convenient communication with other students and potentially with others outside the class such as students of the same topic and subject experts. Many social media, as commercial endeavours, are attractive in that their features often surpass those of internal firewalled environments. The fact that these media are generally open to the world implies a need to carefully consider the risks of openness as well as need for ongoing communication with students in order to address their concerns and deal with issues in the use of social media as they arise. These risks are counter-balanced by the benefits of open discussion and academic debate in authentic online environments.Use Of Social Media Statistics
Quick Resources
Using blogs in learning and teaching
University of Leeds
Nine essential social media tips for educators
eSchoolsNews Idm 6.27 free download.
Google Plus: It’s very simple
Alan Cann (University of Leicester)
Getting started with Twitter
Terese Bird (University of Leicester)
To get started using social media in teaching, consider what you want to achieve.
*Do you wish to help students with their writing or reflection? Encourage or assign them to begin a blog. Wordpress is a simple blogging platform used by many at the University of Leicester.
*Do you wish to help students discover and discuss the very latest in breaking news and issues? Encourage them to use Twitter, and to tweet using a hashtag # identifying your course. The case study of Paul Reilly in Media and Communications, below, is a good example.
*Do you wish to help students share scholarly articles and discuss in an academic fashion? Consider using Google Plus. Alan Cann’s case study will be helpful.
Case studies
I have integrated Twitter into the teaching of my Activism and Protest in the Information Age module. Many students have reported that it helps them make the links between theory and breaking news stories. The module is supported by a class hashtag (#actandprotest- see www.storify.com/PaulJReilly where I have curated these links), which I use to direct the class to additional resources throughout the semester. Students are encouraged to share content with their classmates via the hashtag and this was very successful in prompting weekly discussions.
Paul Reilly from Media and Communications.The Use Of Social Media In Teaching Race
Dr Alan Cann, Senior Lecturer, Department of Biology encouraged students to begin a Google Plus account and to use that site to discuss current events in Biology. Students were assessed on how well they engaged with each and developed academic discussion and discourse skills. Alan wrote about his experience.
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