social media: facebook's educational implication

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S. Sathishkumar Master of Education (2015-17) Dept. of Educational Technology Bharathidasan University

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S. SathishkumarMaster of Education (2015-17)Dept. of Educational TechnologyBharathidasan University

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Social MediaInteracting with friends and family across long

distances has been a concern of humans for centuries. As social animals, people have always relied on communication to strengthen their relationships.

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Social Media Types

Social networksFacebook

Bookmarking sites

StumbleUpon

Social newsReddit

Media sharingYouTube

Microblogging

Twitter

Blog comments and forums

General social media

sites

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Social Media beginning

• The telephone in 1890• The radio in 1891.• After the first super computers were created in the 1940s.• the 1970s, networking technology had improved, and 1979’s

Use Net allowed users to communicate through a virtual newsletter.

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Contin,…. • The first recognizable social media site, Six Degrees (

www.sixdegrees.com), was created by Andrew Weinreich in 1997.• It enabled users to upload a profile and make friends

with other users.• In 1999, the first blogging sites became popular,

creating a social media sensation that’s still popular today.

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Social Media

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Today important social mediasFacebook

WhatsApp

WeChat

YouTube

Myspace

Skype

Twitter

Telegram

Viber

Line

Snapchat

LinkedIn

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Twitter

instagram

Tumblr

Qzone

WeChat

QQ

Facebook Messanger

Whatsapp

Facebook

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Most famous social network sites worldwide as of September 2016

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Number of active users in millions

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Invented in 2003, by Mark Zuckerberg “FaceMash”Three Harvard University classmatestheFacebook.com 2004Facebook.com 2005Myspace – musicians etc. Sometimes called “poor man’s Facebook”

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FACEBOOK FEATURES

The Wall

Messages INBOX (and

threads)Pokes Groups Events

Photos & Videos (with

tagging)

Posted items

(text and URLs)

Shared items

Applications

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FACEBOOK FEATURES

Facebook lunched

Facebook Messenger August 9,

2011

After introduced Audio ,vide

o, Group calling in Facebook

Audio calling – January

2013

Video calling - April 27,

2015

Group calling -

April 2016

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India

Unaited State

Brazil

Indonesia

China

Mexico

Philippines

Germany

Unaited Kindom

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Leading countries based on number of Facebook users as of May 2016 (in millions)

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Facebook Users development

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So why use Facebook for Teaching?

Personal and professional networking

only differ in the content, not the tool

Students today are “digitally native”

There is a divide

between the way they

learn and the way we teach

We are the digital

immigrants!

Teaching students the

way they prefer to

learn may improve

attainment

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Improved Communication

• Discussions• Photos• Videos• Posted items (Web learn

URLs?)• Group events and invitations• Groups for tutorial groups?• Don’t have to be a friend to

be in a group with someone• Personal messages & threads

Groups

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4 Reasons why Facebook is an Educational ToolLanguage Development

Interpersonal Communication

Group Collaboration

ICT Skills

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