This presentation is about the importance of social media in language learning/teaching process in this current digital era.
Social media is an amazing tool to motivate language learners because it can be adapted to any social context, age and culture since it is possible to customize learning according to learners and teachers' needs.
3. INTRODUCTION
Social media is part of our daily activities: at home, at work, leisure
time and social relationship. Our learners are being born in a very
changeable technological era which motivate them to be updated on
any new application, any new software, any new social networking. A
high percent of our students waste a lot of time playing games,
chatting (making jokes, gossiping, receiving bad advices), following
people that sometimes are not the best examples for them, and maybe
watching pornography.
4. We all wonder what’s going on with young boys and girls. We
regret and complain because of their lack of interest in school
issues. But, we never reflect on what are we doing to integrate
technology to school ir order to teach them a better use of
social media.
There is much to do in our school in regards of technology. It
can be our best tool, our best resource, our best key to
motivate learners using social media in favor or their
education, in favor of creating a human being full of values.
5. SOCIAL MEDIA: Definition
Social media are computer-mediated tools that allow people
to create, share or exchange information, ideas, and
pictures/videos in virtual communities and networks. Social
media is defined as "a group of Internet-based applications
that build on the ideological and technological foundations of
Web 2.0, and that allow the creation and exchange of user-
generated content.”(Wikipedia.com)
6. Why use Social Media in (Language)
Teaching and Learning?
The Pedagogical Arguments:
• Familiarity: our students are already using them for purposes that
include the social and the educational
• Use in class/after class – social media bring learning outside the
classroom.
• Authentic, autonomous and independent learning.
• Motivational and fun.
• Meaningful interaction peer-peer, student-instructor
(communication)
• Vast resource of authentic written, audio, video materials with which
both receptive and productive skills may be practised. (information).
7. SOCIAL MEDIA……..
……allow the learner to participate
in actual, real-time, relevant
conversations taking place online,
and practice the target language by
his/her own. (Wikipedia.com).
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11. Online interaction for teaching/learning.
• Online chat
• Online evaluation. Feedback
• Pre-class writing
• E-mail Feedback: instructor poses questions about his
teaching via e-mail.
22. Some online tools that have been specifically
created for teaching.
TYPES EXAMPLES
Virtual learning environment Blackboard, moodle, UBH
Quiz creator Hot potatoes
Sound recording and playback audacity
Flashcards generators Cramberry
Teaching videos TeacherTub
Teaching social network Edmodo
Virtual classroom Elluminate
23. ACTIVITIES YOU CAN DO USING
SOCIAL MEDIA.
• Collaborative projects
• Peer editing of compositions
• Email
• Reinforcement of classroom material
• Games and simulations
• Blogging and podcast
• Video making
• Video conference
24. Social media : Advantages
• It is a familiar tool. Most of your students are on social networking
platforms, and these services are already tools that students are
generally comfortable with -- and they can probably show you a thing
or two in return.
• Improve your own knowledge and skills as an educator.
• Resource availability
• Improvement of research skills.
• Relevant, real-life learning.
• The promotion of digital citizenship
25. • Engaging your students.
• The ability to share learning material.
• The potential to appeal to different learning styles.
Whether a learner naturally prefers kinetic, audio or
visual learning, the varied types of media and
information found on sites such as Facebook and
Twitter can appeal to a wide range of learner styles.
26. • Ease of access. Social networking requires no
expensive equipment or modern upgrades -- all you
need is a computer or mobile device with an Internet
connection.
• Assisting shy students.
• Provide profesional teachers support, guidance and
training.
• Promote independent and informal language
learning (autonomous learners).
• Encouraga teachers to expand their rol to that of
moderator and advisor in language teaching.
27. Social Media: Disadvantages
• The action factor. Unless the use of sites such as Facebook and
Twitter are incorporated into a class plan in order to contribute
towards an objective lesson aim, then it could become nothing more
than a waste of time.
• Distractions.
• The risk of cyberbullying.
• Limiting face-to-face communication
• The need for schools to research, understand and implement. it
requires a good level of technical understanding to use and maintain
social media effectively
28. • Continual social media change.
• The possibility of malware infections or phishing scams.
• The need to filter and plan. Schools have a duty of care to
their students, in order to protect children from
inappropriate communication, images or video. Several
options are available, such as YouTube for Schools..
• Inappropriate content sharing or exposure
• Controlling device use in class.
33. • They can also communicate with friends and other
users through private or public messages and a chat
feature, it is also an incredible learning tool. Teachers
can utilize Facebook for class projects, for enhancing
communication, and for engaging students in a
manner that might not be entirely possible in
traditional classroom settings.
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38. Fan page: An alternative to a group is a “fan page”, which, has the
advantage that your “status updates” will show up for students on
their live feed .Disadvantage : some students turn off live feed and
only see status updates of their friends.
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40. • Class Projects
• Follow news feeds.
• Share book reviews.
• Poll your class.
• Practice a foreign language.
• Create your own news source.
• Follow news stories.
• Participate in a challenge.
• Bring literature to life.
ACTIVITIES
41. An excellent way to ensure students are more engaged in the
learning experience, whether in a traditional classroom or at
accredited online colleges, is by strengthening the communication
between students and student-to-teacher. These are just a few ideas
to do just that:
• Create groups. You can create groups for entire classes or for study
groups with smaller subsets of students that allow for easy sharing
of information and communication, without students even having
to friend each other.
• Schedule events. From beginning of semester mixers to after-finals
celebrations, easily schedule events for the entire class using
Facebook.
Facilitate Communication
42. • Send messages. From unexpected absences to rescheduling exams, it's
easy to send messages through Facebook.
• Share multimedia. With the ability to post videos, photos, and more, you
can share multimedia content easily with the entire class.
• Post class notes. Post notes after each class period for students to have
access for review or in case they were absent.
• Provide direct communication with instructors. Instructors and students
can contact each other through Facebook, providing an opportunity for
better sharing of information and promoting better working
relationships.
Facilitate Communication
43. • Allows shy students a way to communicate. Shy students who may not
want to approach their teacher after class or during office hours can use
Facebook to communicate.
• Facilitate classmate connections. When students get to know each other
more intimately, they become more involved in the learning experience.
• Make announcements. Instructors can send out reminders about
upcoming tests, upcoming due dates, or any classroom news.
• Brainstorm. Students can have the ability to add their thoughts to the
class any time they occur allows for more opportunities for
brainstorming off each other.
Facilitate Communication
44. • Share interesting websites. Students and instructors alike can post
interesting websites that add relevancy to the class.
• Post homework. Posting homework through Facebook not only provides
easy access for students, it also puts in writing specifically what is
expected and when it is due.
Facilitate Communication
45. • Inviting atmosphere. this offers students an opportunity for active
participation on a level playing field.
• Students are comfortable with Facebook. Most students are
already users of Facebook, so implementing it into class provides a
comfortable way for students to participate in class.
• Promotes collaboration. Facebook's design promotes social
interchange between participants, thereby increasing collaboration
between students working on activities.
• Students engaged outside of class. When students are accessing
the class content more often, that means they will be thinking
about and engaging in the lessons more frequently.
• Ambient awareness. a way of getting to know those you follow on
social networks in more meaningful ways.
Benefits
46. • Teach personal responsibility. Instructors can take this
opportunity to teach students how to responsibly use
Facebook and other social networking sites so it helps their
future–not the opposite.
• Access to guest speakers. Instructors who have stayed in
contact through Facebook with past students who have
moved on to their careers have an excellent resource for
guest speakers for the class.
Benefits
47. • These apps are great for both students and teachers and include
access to documents, research material, and presentations:
• Links. Easily post links to interesting things found on the Internet
that may be relevant to class.
• SlideShare. Instructors and students can use this app to create
awesome slide presentations as a part of class or to complete an
assignment.
• To-Do List. Who couldn't use a reminder list of all there is to
complete in a day? This app helps with that.
• JSTOR Search. You may need to access this through your library's
proxy, but this is a great way to find full articles through JSTOR.
• WorldCat. Search for material available at libraries around the
world to find help with your research.
Facebook Applications for Both Students and Teachers
48. • Zoho Online Office. If your class is using Zoho for documents,
spreadsheets, or presentations, then this app is an invaluable way
to access them all through Facebook.
• Google Docs. Just like Zoho, if you are using Google Docs, access
them through Facebook with this app.
• Podcasts. Teachers and students who use a classroom management
system can access their courses, assignments, and more through
Podcasts.
• LibGuides. Access content from your library with this app.
• Facebook Groups for Teachers: These groups show how other
instructors are using Facebook in education or work to unite
educators through Facebook. You can connect with educators
across the nation.
Facebook Applications for Both Students and Teachers
61. What’s e-mails…………………?
Email, e-mail stands for electronic
mail, it is the transmission of
messages (emails or email
messages) over electronic
networks like the internet.
Messages get to the other
person's email account within
seconds.
62. Most popular free email service
• G-mail (google approach)
• Yahoo
• Outlook (hotmail)
66. ACTIVITIES
• PICASA TOOL. Send photos directly via e-mail using your Microsoft
Outlook or Gmail account.
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68. highlight major points made in class, to
mention things you forgot to bring up in class,
or to give a heads-up about an unexpected
absence.
•As a feedback and communication tool.
•Smith, Whiteley and Smith (1999), stressed
that email can increase faculty-student
You can also use e-mail to…….
70. Listening Activities
Activity Possible technology
Listen a conversation CD, sitio web de audio, audioconferencia
Listen to patterns Podscasts, recorded audio
Listen to a program Ubterbet raduim oidcasts
Kusteb ti a oien/song CD, internet, podcast
Listen to a recorded audio Podcastas, audio website
Listen to a presentation Presentation software, multimedia,
video/audio conference
Listen to a story CD, audibook, internet (TeacherTube,
podcasts.
71. Writing Activities Possible Technology
Ask and answer Text procesor, chat, e-mail, online
discussion.
Writing a text Word processor, blog, wiki
Object rotulation Word processor, drawing software
Written definitions Word processor, software to draw
mind-maps
Write a parragraph/sentence, a
poem, a letter.
Word processor, software to draw
mind-maps
Create a story Software to créate comics
Online discussion Discussion fórum, chatroom, chats
Create graphich and charts Word processor, Excel
72. Reading activities
Activities Possible technologies
Read a story, a poem, newspaper,
magazine, a book/novel, a letter, a
chart, a graphic, an article, etc.
Internet, E-bookreader, e-mail
73. Visual activities
Activity Possible technology
Watch a festival, artista, band, etc Ustream, internet,DVD, YouTube,
etc.
See a video Internet (TeacherTube, Hulu),
DVD
See a live presentation Web, videoconference, Ustream
Look at pictures, images Web.
74. E-MAILS: Advantages
• The most important benefit is its potential to offer
learners opportunities for much more valuable
communicative interaction in the target language than
was ever possible in the traditional foreign language
classroom.
• E-MAIL is typically a free way to electronically “mail”
friends, family and co-workers:
75. Some other advantages
of using emails in education
• Presence of teacher is not mandatory.
• Teachers can send assignment anytime, anywhere.
• Quicker responses to messages and questions.
• Save money (paper, ink cartridges, markers, etc.
• Emails are easy to use. You can organize your daily
correspondence, send and receive electronic messages and
save them on computers.
• Feedback
• Emails may carry viruses.
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76. E-mai: disadvantages
• Some students do not own technology in their homes.
• Many don’t have internet service at home or area they live in.
• Not all students are computer frienly.
• Some e-mails may carry viruses,
• Some attached documents may not be compaible with some
Microsoft office tolos due to different updates.
• Bloch (2002) is also concerned about the social aspect of email
and finds that misunderstandings and conflicts can abound
without a face-to-face context.
78. We knew technology was important to communicate all around the
world. However, now we have a wider idea of the usefulness of social
media, and that it can be a great allied for teachers and education.
It is time to start using this tool as our best resource to motivate
learners to study, specially language. It is time that we, as teachers,
worry about qualifying for being as good as learners are dealing with
social media issues.
The change has came a long time ago. In spite of that Dominican
Republic is one of the countries leader in communication which implies
the use of high tech; regarding education (specially public schools) we
are quite behind. Many teachers are not willing to make any effort to
get updated and that’s why students refuse learning through old
methodologies and strategies. They’re demanding a new teaching style
adapted to the modern era we are living in.
If any action is taken……
81. Ask how to get in any internet web
site via google or explorer.
Download video-tutorials or virtual
tours of the application you need to
use. You’re going to get a very good
step by step explanation. So you can
learn how to use Word, powerpoint,
e-mail, google applications, Excel,
etc, etc.
If you don’t have an internet
account go to an internet center and
ask for help. It’s just RD$20.00 per hour.
82. Five ways to use Social Media…….
…… in Language Teaching.
• 1. Create a Facebook page that your class can 'like'. Start posting updates to
your timeline, but not in English. Ask your pupils to translate the text using
Facebook's in-line Bing translation tool and ask them to gauge its accuracy.
• 2. Create a Twitter account. Start tweeting in a foreign language, keeping in
mind that you have a 140 character limit, and see if your pupils can strike up a
conversation with you. Impose a non-English only reply and retweet rule.
• 3. Create a YouTube account. Ask each of your pupils to record a video blog,
or 'vlog', of their hobbies, thoughts or opinions on topical news stories, but
speaking only in a foreign language. Those who want to have their video
uploaded should send it to you first.
83. • 4. Create a Pinterest account. Take some pictures of prompt cards, post-it
notes or even objects with their description in another language and 'pin'
them on your boards. You could even look for photos of the country, or
infographics about languages in general, to help your pupils understand
more about why they should learn it.
• 5. Create a blog . Dedicate it entirely to publishing content in the language
you teach. Show your pupils why you love the language and inspire them to
do the same. Ask them to write something, however small, and post it for
the whole world to admire.
Source: http://www.theguardian.com/teacher-network/teacher-blog/2012/apr/10/language-
teaching-socialmedia
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