I remembered the Green Team group’s discussing social network such as twitter and facebook. Facebook’s popularity is uncontested but questions remain as to its role and purpose in an educational setting.
Yes, we know that facebook is Social but according to research it increases a sense of belongingness; build bonds between classmates; and increase bond between students and instructors.
The key debaters are:
CON
“I have seen it [technology] used as a delivery system, then as content in the classroom and finally as a classroom, building and campus itself, and in every case pedagogy changed to accommodate the interface. Shouldn’t it be the other way around? Unless we impose that logic on social networks, they will align educational methods with corporate motives…”
PRO –
“Social networking has arrived in hundreds of thousands of classrooms and is attempting to show that technology in education is less about anonymous chips and bytes filling up our children with knowledge, less about teachers reinforcing a ‘chalk and talk’ style with an interactive whiteboard, and less about death by PowerPoint bullets. It’s more about helping learners become more world-aware, more communicative, learning from each other and understanding first-hand what makes the world go round.”
I thought there project was very informative and it’s a thought when I start teaching.
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