Social network: Emerging technology for ICT in Education

1. Emerging ICT for
Education
Tinsiri Siribodhi Ph.D.

2. 1965
Promote
Cooperation in
Education
Culture and Science
in Southeast Asia
Region

4. 19 centers

5. When you think of
“Emerging ICT” what do
you think of?

6. Sharing my view

7. New Technologies

8. Web 2.0 and Social Network

9. Social Media Usage
April’08 visitors April’09 visitors Change
(In millions) (In millions)
58.75 54.60 -7%
120.79 131.60 9%
22.48 71.29 217%
1.22 17.10 1,298%
Source: Time Magazine June 2009

10. Skills for the 21st Century
4 Information Literacy skill
4 Communication skill
4 ICT skill
4 Inquiry skill
4 Problem solving skill
4 Analytical thinking skill
4 Collaboration skill
4 Interpersonal skill
4 Social responsibility
4 Accountability

11. How can we use emerging
technologies to create the
required 21st century skills?

12. Digital Learners
4Create their own goal/interest
4Users create and control their own content
4Accountable for what they write
4Share & collaboration on common interest

13. Social Media Tools
Communication & Blogger, LiveJournal, OpenDiary, WordPress
create content
Collaboration Wikipedia, LinkedIn, MySpace, Facebook,
Twitter, Slideshare, delicious, blog
Graphic Flickr, Picussa, Photobucket
Video You Tube, Google video
Sound VoiceThread

14. Potentials of Social Network
1. New opportunity for learning
2. Empower students with ICT tools to
construct, present, reflect, collaborate
3. Engage students in learning and interaction
4. Facilitate network between students within
the course and with outside field

15. Link it Through Pedagogy
4Pedagogy of interaction and engagement
4Initiate interesting topic that is relevance
4Center the topic around the benefit of the group
4Facilitate problem-based Learning
4Encourage self-direct learning
4Engage students via collaborative learning
4Move beyond LMS

16. Personal Learning Environment
4Environment that adaptable
and flexible to one’s need
4Students create their own
learning environment
4Students organize their
own learning
4Students take responsibilities of their own
learning and put it into successful action

18. Example of practices

19. www.facebook.com

21. Write here
Click here to comment

23. www.twitter.com

24. Write here
Following Followers
Search

25. 10

27. TeacherTube YouTube EDU

28. www.slideshare.net

29. Webinar

30. The Results

32. Challenges
4Teacher training
4Need more innovative pedagogy design
4Encourage collaborative content design
4Open Education Resource (OER)
4Reuse, rework, remix, redistribute
4 Innovative use of assessment

33. ICT in Education
It is not about technology.
It is about teaching and learning, using
technology.

34. For more info.
Tinsiri Siribodhi
Southeast Asian Minister of Education Organization
E-mail: tinsiri@seameo.org
www.seameo.org