Education
and Social Media
is
like
Communication
and Telephones
Mimi Ito, above, talks about social media as a learning tool.
I just LOVE this week’s class assignment! To me, it’s almost redundant to even
ask about the value of social media as a learning tool.
It’s not rocket science to see that technology is and
should be invading education.
There are TONS of sources online about this and one of the best current
ones I found is listed above.
Mimi Ito gives some very good information on just how
important social media is to education with also some great remarks about why
parents shouldn’t be ‘friends’ on their kid’s FB page.
[[[[[ About Mimi: Mimi Ito (in the video) is
a Japanese cultural anthropologist who is a Professor in Residence at the Humanities
Research Institute at the University of California, Irvine. Her main professional interest is young people's
use of media technology. She has explored the ways
in which digital media are changing relationships, identities, and communities.
]]]]]
Another great current website for SM and education is:
….. with sweet little graphics and bite-sized
data, and headliners like:
6 must-see education
TED Talks
These 7 digital
resources help integrate arts education. . .
Textbooks, tech, and
social media: What do students prefer?
At least 66% of
faculty unaware of open resources
Here is a NYTImes
online article about the topic:
Technology Changing How Students Learn,
Teachers Say
This loosely based study talks about how teachers have
to do a ‘song and dance’ to gain their students’ attention due to social
media. They claim their attention
spans are greatly decreased by the constant barrage of data and images their
students consume on social media.
But, hey! This
sounds similar to an argument I posed to a good friend, CSU Media Arts alum,
2008, who’s film teacher told him his video clips HAD to be at least 3 seconds
long. We see how that’s
changed.
Could it be students are actually absorbing more and
faster than their older teachers?
Maybe they’re bored? I was
bored every year in school; weren’t you?
Here is another online article from February 2013 about
the distractions for students of social media.
How Students Benefit From Using Social Media
Joseph Baker, author, says that students are using
social media all the time. . . connecting education and technology.
However, social media offers
plenty of opportunities for learning and interactivity, and if you take a
moment to think about it, it’s not too hard to see how students benefit from
using social media. As younger generations use such technology in the
classroom, they remake the educational landscape.
Businesses worldwide are using social media more and
more and thus, students NEED to be versed in these tools if they are to succeed
in an ever technologically growing marketplace.
Not only will social media be used more and more in
classrooms across the world, classes such as this one, Social Media CDES219, should
be required for all disciplines.
In a nutshell, all I need to say is:
Khan
Academy
Salman Khan was helping his young
cousin with math in 2004. When
other friends and relatives wanted help he made little tutorials on
YouTube.
His cousin said she liked him
better on YouTube than in person.
The MAIN REASON was (and this was a showstopper for me, but again, not
rocket science) she could pause and rewind when she needed to go back over
something. And he wouldn’t get
upset! How many times have you wanted
to ‘re-wind’ a teacher?
So. How has Khan Academy done since 2004?
From Wikipedia: Khan Academy has eclipsed MIT's OpenCourseWare in terms of videos viewed.
Its YouTube channel has more than 458 million total views, compared to MIT's 67
million. It also has more than twice as many subscribers, with 2,089,001.
Khan Academy currently provides various levels
of mathematics courses, and Salman Khan has stated that with the help of
teachers, tutors and experts.
Khan Academy now has topics beyond just math,
such as physics, chemistry, finance, computer science, logic, biology, art history and more.
Case
closed.
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