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Social Media for Academicians – The Trend is Beginning by Ravindra Dastikop
This document discusses how social media can enable education by overcoming traditional barriers. It outlines how social media allows education to eliminate distance barriers by connecting students and teachers anywhere. Social media also helps overcome language barriers by allowing educational content to be shared in multiple languages. Finally, social media helps overcome time barriers by making educational content accessible anytime through platforms like blogs, Facebook pages, and online discussion forums. Examples from the author's own teaching experience illustrate how various social media tools can enhance education.
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- 1. Social Media Enabled Education Updated version Ravindra Dastikop http://dastikop.blogspot.com Email: ravindra.dastikop@gmail.com Facebook : http://facebook.com/ravindra.dastikop
- 2. Purpose ●In this presentation, I am sharing my experience in discovering and deploying social media resources for educational purposes. ● I teach a graduate course in engineering college.
- 3. Agenda ● New Media,New Education ● Power and Potential of Social Media ● Why and How of using social media in education ● Illustrations from my experiments with web tools in teaching and learning ● Summary ●Q & A
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- 5. Education – action ●Education is a process of transformation ○ Ignorant into informed (Liberal Education) ○ Unskilled into skilled (Technical Education) ○ Parochial to national to universal ( social science, humanities) The scope and our ability to transform depends on means and tools available Edusat Learning styles –listener, readers, and many
- 6. Education as process ●Education is an organized process by which society transmits knowledge, skills, values from one generation to another. ● Our ability to transmit – ○ what can be transmitted and (drawing) ○ ways in which it can be transmitted determined by media we have ● Social media (hypermedia) enables transmission of all kinds of knowledge unconstrained by traditional barriers of time, distance, language.
- 7. Media is Education Mediadetermines the scope of education
- 8. Media and Formof education ● Oral (prior to 14t Century) ○ Nature : Sound deaf can’t be educated ○ Skill- remember, recall, recite ○ Talent- Memory ● Printed ○ Nature : text, no picture ○ Skill – reading, writing, Arithmetic ○ Binding time ● Multimedia ○ Nature- Text, picture, animation ● Electronic media ● Mass media – TV – one way , IGNOU ● Social media ○ Nature- all above + hyperlinked , multi-lingual
- 9. We are herenow …. Next step ● Historically the advent/evolution of media has impacted the educational phenomenon. ● Social media represents the latest in the long list of media inventions- oral, print, electronic, multimedia, mass media.
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- 11. Social Media ● Socialmedia is interactive dialogue enabled by a web and mobile- technologies. ● Post, share comment cycle ○ Conversation ○ Teaching ( ■ post a lesson/topic, (blog, FB) ■ share a resource, ■ Offer or seek comments ■ from my blogs
- 12. Power of SocialMedia
- 13. Eliminates Distance barrier ●Seeks inputs from related, experienced people who are at distance ○ Project guidance - ● Seek support from alumni ○ Placement cell
- 14. The social mediaeducation environment ● Add slide of edit, publish and comment loops
- 15. Overcoming Traditional Barrier- Language ● Prepare in one language – Teach in many ○ Home Blog
- 16. Overcoming Traditional Barrier work-place ● Not constrained by campus resources ○ Prepare anywhere ○ Access any where – Example
- 17. Overcoming Time barrier ●Class Never sleeps ○ Course home page ■ Campus ■ Sharing learning resources ■ Uploading files – (show submission example sheet)
- 18. Overcoming Distance Barrier ●Teachers can become Drona’s and Students can become Ekalavyas
- 19. Social media supportsall educational objectives ● Distance learning ● Learning styles ○ Reading and writing ● UID objectives – ● Blooms Taxonomy
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- 21. Web is anew Learning Habitat
- 22. Advantage Faculty ● Akey feature of Social Media is its round-the-clock accessibility, making it easy for teachers to work on lesson plans (add lesson plan here ( or any academic deliverable) at their convenience ● Link rich data sources to lesson plans- enrich education ○ Example joke (spell check)
- 23. Web is LearnersHome ● Current generation of students are ○ practically digital natives – ■ easy to find them on web ○ Skilled at texting, browsing and searching ■ Need to build on them and take it further
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- 25. Proof is inthe Pudding Sharing my experiments
- 26. Web Tools forUniversal Interface Design C-DAC Presentation
- 27. My Cloud computingCourse
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- 30. Social Media SupportsGroup editing Cloud Computing Wiki
- 31. Social Media supportsGroup Learning Google Groups
- 32. Social Media connectsu to needy Ask Dastikop Collected Questions
- 33. Social media helpsu create common resource EMPIP Course