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Social Media: Is there a place for it in Education?
Opportunities and Challenges of Social Media for Education
E. Haipinge04.08.2014
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What is Social Media?
It is a group of Internet-based applications that build on the ideologtechnological foundations of Web 2.0, and that allow the creation anexchange of User Generated Content (Kaplan & Haenlein, 2010, 6
Web 2.0 refers to an online platform that enables all willing users tocontinuously create and modify published content and applications inparticipatory and collaborative fashion
User Generated Content deals with the various forms of media contentare publicly available and created by end-users (Ibid)
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Key Characteristics of Social Medi Collaboration and/or distributed authorship Active, open-access, bottom -up participation and interactive multi-wa
communication Continuous production, reproduction, and transformation of material in
reuse across contexts Openness of content, renunciation of copyright, distributed ownership Lack of finality , open-endedness of the activity (Dohn, 2009, p. 345)
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Types of Social Media
CollaborativeProjects Wikis Social
Bookmarking Online spaces
Blogs Textual blogs
Microblogs Rich contentblogs
ContentCommunities Video Picture Slides &
documents
SocialNetwork Person
pages Chat &
Messa
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Collaborative Projects These are social media that enable joint and simultaneous creation of
content by a number of users, and its two distinct types are wikis anbookmarking software
Wikis: a browser-based software to collaboratively write, edit and link HTMdocuments
Social bookmarking: Collect, organise (use tags) and rate Internet links amedia content
Online collaborative spaces: offer platforms to collaboratively work with otOffice applications
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Blogs These are easy-to-update websites characterized by da
entries displayed in reverse chronological order whosecontent could be text, pictures, videos, files, web links
combination of these Textual, macro blogs create logged textual content Multi-media micro blo gs post various content and foll
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Content Communities Content communities are social media platforms where users share o
content with each other Such media may take various forms: video, pictures, PDF files or Pow
presentation slides Video communities Picture communities File Documents communities Scholar/academic communities
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Social Networking Sites These are web applications enabling users to construct a public or s
public profile within a bounded system, articulate a list of other use whom they share a connection, and view and traverse their list of cand those made by others within the system (Boyd & Ellison, 200
Social activities network sites Chat applications Video call social networks Scholar/academic and profession social networks
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Why Social Media in Education? Traditional power relations in education altered by Internet with task
in the domain of educators now under the control of learners (searchinformation, creating spaces of interaction)
Through blogs, wikis, online video, podcasts and open educational re
learners are able to access content from leading lecturers and researcthe world
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Theoretical Basis for S.M in Education
SRL & PLE Self-Regulated Learning (SRL): student's ability to independently and pengage in self-motivating and behavioral processes that increase goal attain(Zimmermann, 2000)
Also defined as a skill where students must know how to set goals, what is
achieve those goals, and how to actually attain these goals (Dabbagh & Kit Personal Learning Environments (PLEs): an outcome of social media
learners to create, organize, and share content (Dabbagh & Kitsantas, 2012 PLEs use social media tools and services to help students aggregate and s
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SRL & PLE Pedagogical Framework
Personal informationmanagement
Social interactionand collaboration
Information aggregationand management
Learners create a personal or private learn
self-generating content and managing thispersonal productivity or organizational e-(Tools: Bookmarks, blogs, wikis, notes, ca
Learners use social media to engage in basic shcollaborative activities for self-monitoring and seeking purposes (Tools: social network groups
comment features, collaborative wiki spaces, o
Learners evaluate their learning process througbased on set learning goals. They synthesize aninformation from level 1 and level 2 in order tooverall learning experience (Tools: e-Portfolios
(Dabbagh & Kitsantas, 2012, p. 6)
L e v e l o f
i n t e r a c t i v i t y e n a b
l e d b y s o c i a
l m e d
i a Level 1
Level 2
Level 3
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SRL & PLE Pedagogical Framework:Examples of specific tools
Personal informationmanagement
Level 1
Social interactionand collaboration
Level 2
Information aggregationand management
Level 3
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Theoretical Basis for S.M. in Education:Blooms Taxonomy
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Challenges in using Social Media inEducation
Tensions and blurred distinctions Informal vs formal learning Unstructured vs structured learning spaces Teacher controlled vs learner controlled learning spaces
(personal space) Open and closed content (quality control)
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Some pertinent questions The web 2.0 is characterized by decentralization of authority in kno
creation and technology ownership. How does this affect existing tra Current uses of LMS is mainly used for information retrieval and ra
communication among students. Can educators modify their practicemedia or does it offer supportive role to existing structures ?
Conceptual tensions between social media and educational systems views of knowledge, learning, and learning goals.Which one shouldsuit the needs of the other?
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Conceptual Discrepancies between Web 2.0Practices & Educational Practices
Educational practices = acquisition metaphor, whereas Web 2.0 practices = pametaphor of learning (Dohn, 2009)
Educational practices have an inherent individualistic, objectivistic view of knowlecompetence: emphasizing ownership and authorship of learning products for credit
Learning is considered the acquisition the coming into possession of the knowledg
competence that can be transferred to other contexts without major loss Web 2.0 practices oh the other hand view learning as implicitly and explicitly participa
knowledge construction and sharing Therefore Web 2.0 and/or educational practices must be reshaped to fit each other, giv
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References Bosman, L., & Zagenczyk, T. (2011). Revitalize your teaching: Creative approache
applying Social Media in the classroom. In White, B., King, I., & Tsang, P. (eds.), Stools and platforms in learning environments(pp. 3 16). New York: Springer.
Dabbagh, N., & Kitsantas, A. (2012). Personal Learning Environments, social medself-regulated learning: A natural formula for connecting formal and informal learInternet and higher education , 15 (1), 3-8. doi: 10.1016/j.iheduc.2011.06.002
Dohn, N.B. (2009). Web 2.0: Inherent tensions and evident challenges for educatioComputer-Supported Collaborative Learning , 4(3), pp. 343-363. doi: 10.1007/s11412-00 Kaplan, A.M., & Haenlein, M. (2010). Users of the world, unite! The challenges a
opportunities of Social Media. Business Horizons , 53 (1), 59-68. doi:10.1016/j.bushor.2009.09.003
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