Social Networking As An Educational Tool

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            Social networks make the education better, cheaper, more available and responsive, so they  have become very popular. The more users add new content, the more people reach the content and the link. So, with the help of this collective activity, web grows rapidly. Web 2.0 has brought some new such characteristics  Profile, Traversable, Publicly Articulated Social Network and Semi persistent Public comments as well.

                                           

            User generated content in education comes with both benefits and limitations. In terms of it’s benefits, we can say that users can gain experience of the content, contents can be refreshed without any help, tools support collaborative work and they also excite learners. The arch benefit of web 2.0 is that users add value to the content. When it comes to its limitatitons, we can talk about its trust, reliability and believability issues. There is a lot of information on internet and it is not easy to sort the correct knowledge from wrong one. As it is fast, students may demand immediate answers, so it is also criticized for encouraging short attention span.

            Milennials can multitask, prefer learning from videos, pictures and in a interactive way. However, they can also lack the ability to evaluate content, do plagiarism and socialize mainly on online.

            As printed materials are too late, too inaccessible and too expensive, academics usually make use of technologies. Web 2.0 helps us in bth research network and learning network. Also, our relation with knowledge changed. Knowing where to find information has become more important. We do not acquire knowledge in a linear manner, but we use tools such as blogs and wikis.

            Prensky thinks that learners now think differently from their predecessors, so their brain could been changed as well. Brown and Duguid do not agree to this and say that technology can not change insights that students receive. With web 2.0 tools, multiculturalism, cooperative and colleborative learning increase. So, teachers act acccordingly. Use of activities are also important in online collabrative couse design.

            Courses should be designed in relation with students’ needs. They involve giving learner more control, interaction with couse content and creating a timetable suitable for students. There needs to be balance between control of the learner and freedom to work creatively as well. Not surprisingly, all these change the role of the teacher. Teachers should be qualified about new technologies and be able to use them in the classes.

            Learner design gives credit to designing activities. It’s aimed for students to learn interactively and gain more control in the class, so that learning could be enhanced. Also, teachers are critices for not being immature enough. Accordingly, hey use technology to mirror practice. However, web 2.0 tools help them improve themselves.        

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