Social Networking Sites Workshop

Kyungmee Lee Minoo Ardeshiri

Feb 16, 2011

Week 2

SNSs Applications

AGENDA

1. Wiki Questions : Classroom Discussion

2. More SNSs : Introducing Your SNS

3. Group Activity :

SNSs Implications in Formal and Informal Learning Contexts

4. Reflection on SNSs : Past, Now and Future?

1. WIKI QUESTIONS : CLASSROOM DISCUSSION

QUESTION 1. According to the article, communication scholars found that intense Facebook use correlated with college learners’ sense of increased social belonging, and it is well established that learners who feel socially connected to their communities perform better academically. If this is the case, why do you think the drop out rate is still high among high school students?

Web 2.0 and classroom research: What path should we take now? Educational Researcher, 38 (4), 246-259.

Christine Greenhow

QUESTION 2.

Are you knowledgeable? Or Knowledge-Able?

Michael Wesch: From knowledgeable to knowledge-able http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeaAHv4UTI8

2. MORE SNS:INTRODUCING YOUR SNS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcTLiJEYVAU

Say something interesting about your SNS

In one minute

3. GROUP ACTIVITY: SNS IMPLICATIONS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U&feature=related

CHANGING EDUCATION PARADIGMS

Ken Robinson

SOCIAL NETWORKING… IS IT OPTIONAL OR MANDATORY IN

SCHOOLS?

Students can

• Access to rich multimedia resources

• Share resources and information faster and more reliably

• Communicate more efficiently through email and messaging

Teachers can

• Transmit teaching contents more conveniently

• Disseminate news and information faster and more easily

WWW… IT IS MORE THAN… JUST

LEARNERS AS CONSUMER

Students can

• Be engaged in research on different topics based on their interests

• Interact and collaborate with other students, teachers, researchers or even parents beyond physical schools

• Create their own intellectual artifacts in different types of multimedia

• Shared, disseminated, improved, evaluated, and applied their own artifacts.

Teachers can

• Facilitate and help students’ active learning processes

WWW… IT IS SOMETHING LIKE

LEARNERS AS CREATORS

Providing freedom in learning (what, where, when)

Improving collaboration through discussing and sharing information

Improving communication through more feedbacks and access to resources

Providing personalization of communication network

Providing peer-to-peer journalism (in which regular citizens become eye witness journalists by capturing and broadcasting news event)

Making classroom practice richer (if used appropriately) and more challenging for teachers

• School suspends 29 pupils for insulting teacher on Facebookhttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1112762/School-suspends-29-pupils-insulting-teacher-Facebook.html#ixzz1BJ4Qxl6y

• Bullying on social network sites can affect school workhttp://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/pittsburgh/s_718523.html

• Social networking addiction could lower students’ grades by 20 per centhttp://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/internet/article619394.ece

• When Teens Lie On Their Social Networking Sitehttp://theteendoc.com/parenting/when-teens-lie-on-their-social-networking-site

WWW… HOWEVER….

SHOULD WE CONTROL TECHNOLOGIES?

SOCIAL NETWORKING… IS IT OPTIONAL OR MANDATORY IN SCHOOLS?

IF YES!SHOULD WE

TEACH?

HOW TO TEACH?

SOCIAL NETWORKING

GROUP ACTIVITY:

Group A: Implications in formal learning? Education

Group B: Implications in informal learning (such as professional development)

1. Discuss pros and cons2. Contribute on wiki

4. REFLECTION ON SNS:PAST, NOW AND FUTURE

Not Science Fiction Anymore!

The Fun They hadIsaac Asimov

• Margie even wrote about it that night in her diary. On the page headed May 17, 2157, she wrote, "Today, Tommy found a real book!”

• It was a very old book. Margie's grandfather once said that when he was a little boy his grandfather told him that there was a time when all stories were printed on paper.

• What's it about?" asked Margie.• Tommy said: "School.” it's not our kind of school, stupid. This is

the old kind of school that they had hundreds and hundreds of years ago.” They had a special building and all the kids went there." "And all the kids learned the same thing?" "Sure, if they were the same age.” They didn’t have a regular teacher, I mean a mechanical teacher. It was a man. REALLY, A MAN? asked Margie.

• Margie was thinking about how the kids must have loved it in the old days. She was thinking about the fun they had.

SOCIAL NETWORKING FOR TEACHERS

IMPROVE QUALITY OF TEACHING OR NOT ?

SOCIAL NETWORKINGFOR STUDENTS

COLLABORATION OR DISTRACTION?

?

SOCIAL NETWORKINGFOR WORKPLACE

COLLABORATION OR DISTRACTION?

?

According to a recent survey from the educational trust,

America is the only industrialized

country in which today’s young people are less likely than their parents to

earn a high school diploma.

Social networking Game Changer?

Thanks!