pedagogical potential of social media
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Learning with Social Media:Pedagogical Potential of Social Media
Dr. Rajiv Tandon
December 10, 2010
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Social Media:Definition
Social interaction and networking through blending of technology & media
Turns a Communication into interactive dialogues
Creation and exchange of user generated content co-creation of value
Web based online
Uses publishing techniques highly accessible, and scalable
Media words pictures, and videos
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Comprehensive ListAlmost …
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Potential Applications:In Education and Training
• Employability for the New world
• Recruitment • Research• Sharing Information, interaction, collaboration, discussions
(Reduce reliance on aging/dated/expensive Textbooks)– Blogs
– Wiki
– Publication
– Linking/Sharing Resources
• Learning through peer interaction, relationship building(Networking, Community, Social Aggregation)
– Live Communications
• Improved Methods of Learning
(Simulation)
– Virtual Worlds
– Games for Learning
– Multiplayer Online Training
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Preparation for the New World:Will you survive the next decade without knowing these?
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Recruitment:Common Use at Universities
– Over 500 Universities already have FaceBook presence
– Viral Marketing
– Direct and targeted messages
– Get insights into student thinking
YouTube
– Posting interesting lectures for attracting recruits
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Research :Increases Efficiency and Reach
Diigo
– “Walled Garden” for group privacy
– Bookmark, highlight, make notes and share links
Delicious
– Create library of links
– Connect to each other’s links
– Teacher also shares resources
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Sharing Information:Blogs
Blogs
– Students blog about college experience for admissions
– Faculty blog about Teaching, research
– Researchers collect relevant topics, information from experts
– Find like minded people in domain of interest
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Sharing Information:Wiki
Websites editable by a “member”
• Users share privileges– editing
– upload files, and
– adding links
– protect
• For projects, brainstorming and sharing work
• Professor can control access (“Walled Garden”)
Wikispace
PBWorks
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Sharing Information: Publication
Create and publish own multi-media content for wide dissemination
YouTube
Delicious
StoryBird– Books shared for comments
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Sharing Information:Collaboration
Yugma
• Virtual Meetings / Classes
• Asynchronous / Asynchronous learning
• Chat
Twiducate
Edmodo
Primary Pad
– Using a real-time word processing pad
– Link for students to click and add to the page
– Public pads are free, also paid accounts
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Sharing Information:Backchannel Discussions
Backchannel: online, real-time discussion alongside a live event
Real time review as something is happening
Often no moderation
Sometimes embedded in a Blog or Wiki
Today’s Meet
Cover it Live
Twitter– Use mobile device using a hashtag for discussion
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Sharing Information: Networking
YouTube
Flickr
Blogs
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Introduction for Social Media by Grade Level **Mary Beth Hertz
Grades K-3 Grades 4-6 Grades 7 & 8 Grades 9-12 Higher Ed
Wiki Wiki Wiki Wiki Wiki
StoryBird StoryBird
Primary Pad Primary Pad Primary Pad Primary Pad
Twiducate (3) Twiducate Twiducate
Edmodo (3) Edmodo Edmodo Edmodo
Drop.io Drop.io Drop.io Drop.io
Diigo Diigo Diigo Diigo
Cover it live Cover it live Cover it live Cover it live
Gaggle Gaggle Gaggle Yugma
Delicious Delicious Delicious
Ning Ning Ning
Twitter Twitter Twitter
Today's Meet Today's Meet
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Good Place to Start for Education* *Social Media Classroom (SMC): Howard Rheingold
http://socialmediaclassroom.com
• Free
• To introduce social media into the classroom
• Forums
• Blogs
• Wikis
• Chat
• Social bookmarking
• RSS
• Microbloggin
• Widgets
• Video conferencing, and
• more
• How to for each of the above
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Fee Based Tools in Learning:Level of Interactivity
Level 4:
Simulation
Level 3:
Serious Multiplayer Games
Level 2:
Gaming
Level 1 :
Courses
• Real-Time Participation
• In Operational Setting
• Complex Participation
• Complex Choices
• Limited Participation
• Drill & Practice
• Passive Fact Learning
• Page-Turner
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Gaming Continuum:Scenario, Gaming to Simulation
Scenarios• Lower engagement
• Less expensive
• Easier, faster to build
Gaming• Engagement
• Rules
• Challenges
• Goals, Objectives
• Conflict
• Competition
• Storytelling
• Outcomes & feedback
Serious MultiplayerGames
• Not entertainment
• Significant /realistic challenges
• Authentic
• Suspension of disbelief
• Process oriented
• Skills based
Simulations
• Authentic
• Realistic challenge
• More intellectual than physical;
• Social realism
• Time critical
• Outcome, product oriented;
• Creating outcomes for future
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e- Learning:Courses to Apps
Apps
Courses
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Scenarios:How would you respond to this situation?
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Gaming Characteristics: Complimentary to Learning
Adults learn experientially
Adults want relevancy
Adults learn best when learning is of immediate value
Adults tend to be self-directed
Adults approach learning as problem solving
Engagement• Interaction• Story building
Goals
• Objectives• Motivation
Rules
• Fairness• Balance
Challenge
• Competition• Conflict
Key characteristics of games
Key characteristics of Adult Learning*
*Knowles, M. S. (1970). The modern practice of adult education: From pedagogy to
Andragogy. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall.
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Gaming for Learning:Results are Proof
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GameWare:Avatars and Simulation
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GameWare:Case: Learning to Respond to Emergencies
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Simulation:Persistent Learning Environment
• Global players
• Deliberate learning environment for participants
• Experiential training in any location.
• Train more people in less time than traditional exercises
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Mobile Learning:Delivery on Mobile Devices
Scenarios
Course
Content
Performance
Support
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m- Learning
m-Learning:Just in Time, Just enough
e- Learning
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Performance Support:Case: Providing Real Time Language and Culture Communication
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