Week 2: Social Networking for Learning PDF

ACADEMIC NETWORKING THE USE OF SOCIAL NETWORKING FOR LEARNING SOCIAL NETWORKING or WEB 2.0 O What exactly is social networking? It's software that allows people to come together around an idea or topic of interest O The evolving world of Internet communication -- blogs, podc...

ACADEMIC NETWORKING THE USE OF SOCIAL NETWORKING FOR LEARNING SOCIAL NETWORKING or WEB 2.0 O What exactly is social networking? It's software that allows people to come together around an idea or topic of interest O The evolving world of Internet communication -- blogs, podcasts, tags, file swapping -- offers students radically new ways to research, create, and learn Why schools encourage all this sharing and meeting? O Schools should reflect the world we live in today. O And we live in a social world. O Students need to be taught how to be effective collaborators in that world, how to interact with people around them, how to be engaged, informed twenty-first-century citizens – using technology  POSITIVE SOCIAL NETWORKING O “We are the stories we tell” has never been more important than now. O Employers are now looking at digital/electronic footprints of prospective employees O Schools have always taught students how to present themselves, orally. O Now we need to teach you how to present yourselves electronically EXAMPLES OF HOW WEB 2.0 CAN BE USED FOR LEARNING O Delicious.com - is a free and easy tool to save, organize and discover interesting links on the web. O for example, an annotated resource list you use on a project. You can also see links other people have saved, or browse to see what everyone has bookmarked on a subject  BLOGGING O Blogging is an interactive form of publishing content on the web. It comes from the term "web log.“ O Blogs can be single or Multi-authored O A blog can be specific to one subject area or be multi-disciplined  Benefits O It is public, and we are more attentive to the quality of our work when it is public than if it is just viewed by one other person. O Blogging encourages higher levels of reasoning because the “focus is not necessarily on the content of the blog, but more on the process of constructing and evaluating knowledge.  WIKI O A wiki is a collaborative web site that collects and organizes content, created and revised by its users. O It is based on the idea that within any setting, a great deal of knowledge exists among the members. O Sharing this knowledge and information can raise the organization’s intelligence level, be it a university, an association, class or group  Wikis can be used to; O Find group solutions to a problem O Collaborative annotated bibliographies where students add summaries and critiques about course-related readings O Build knowledge - Compiling a manual or glossary of useful terms or concepts related to the course O Build an online repository of course documents where instructors and students can post relevant documents