social media for academicians – the trend is beginning by ravindra dastikop
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Ravindra Dastikop presentation at SMSin2011TRANSCRIPT
Social Media Enabled Education
Ravindra Dastikophttp://dastikop.blogspot.com
Email: [email protected] : http://facebook.com/ravindra.dastikop
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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.
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
Education
Fundamentals
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
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.
Media is Education
Media determines the scope of education
Media and Form of 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
We are here now …. 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.
Social Media
The Phenomenon
Social Media
● Social media 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
Power of Social Media
Eliminates Distance barrier
● Seeks inputs from related, experienced people who are at distance ○ Project guidance -
● Seek support from alumni ○ Placement cell
The social media education environment
● Add slide of edit, publish and comment loops
Overcoming Traditional Barrier- Language
● Prepare in one language – Teach in many○ Home Blog
Overcoming Traditional Barrier work-place
● Not constrained by campus resources○ Prepare anywhere○ Access any where – Example
Overcoming Time barrier
● Class Never sleeps○ Course home page
■ Campus■ Sharing learning resources■ Uploading files – (show submission example
sheet)
Overcoming Distance Barrier
● Teachers can become Drona’s and Students can become Ekalavyas
Social media supports all educational objectives
● Distance learning● Learning styles
○ Reading and writing ● UID objectives –● Blooms Taxonomy
Result
New Realities
Web is a new Learning Habitat
Advantage Faculty
● A key 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)
Web is Learners Home
● 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
Taking Mountain Mohammed
Proof is in the Pudding
Sharing my experiments
Web Tools for Universal Interface Design
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Social Media supports Group Learning
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Social Media connects u to needy
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