How to use facebook in the college classroom
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Educators are increasingly utilizing Web 2.0 tools like Facebook to enhance teaching and learning by promoting collaboration and communication. Facebook's features allow for greater interaction among students and teachers, encouraging knowledge sharing and community building. However, it is crucial for teacher education programs to include instruction on effectively integrating social networks into educational practices.
How to use facebook in the college classroom
- 1. Pornpan Phatinawin No. 11 TESOL 5
- 2. Educators are now turning to Web 2.0 tools, drawing upon their ability to assist in creating, collaborating on and sharing content. At present, little empirical research has been conducted on the value of Web 2.0 in education (Crook & Harrison, 2008).
- 3. While technological differences abound, social network sites are “web- based services that allow individuals to (1) construct a public or semi-public profile within a bounded system, (2) articulate a list of other users with whom they share a connection, and (3) view and traverse their list of connections and those made by others within the system” (Boyd & Ellison, 2008, p. 211).
- 4. 1.Facebook is equipped with bulletin boards, instant messaging, email, and the ability to post videos and pictures. Most notably, anyone can post information and collaborate within the system. Recently, Facebook has opened up development of downloadable applications, which can further supplement the educational functions of Facebook.
- 5. 2.Beyond high usage rates and some technological advantages, social networks, such as Facebook, can provide numerous other pedagogical advantages to both teachers and students. 3.Facebook provides instructors opportunities and structures by which students can help and support one another by building their courses atop the community already established by the students themselves.
- 6. 4.Facebook also increases both teacher- student and student-student interaction in the form of web-based communication. Facebook helps instructors connect with their students about assignments, upcoming events, useful links, and samples of work outside of the classroom. Students can use Facebook to contact classmates about questions regarding class assignments or examinations as well as collaborate on assignments and group projects in an online environment.
- 7. Instruction in using Facebook should be an integral part of teacher education programs, particularly with so many different types of social networks emerging. As Voithofer (2007) notes, instructing teacher education students on social networks encourages them to consider
- 8. 1) The technical and pedagogical characteristics of educational technology. 2) The social aspects of educational technology. 3) How to think about emerging technologies in relation to teaching .
- 9. The following list provides an overview of the different ways that Facebook can be integrated into a course. 1)Profile Page 2) Creating a Group Page for a Class 3) Replacing/Duplicating webcourse functions on Facebook 4) Integration of Facebook Applications
- 10. 1)An instructor should create an additional Facebook profile for professional use only. 2)Instructors must inform students that they have a Facebook profile. 3)Instructors should create an icebreaker activity on Facebook. 4) Instructors post podcosts, websites, and videos on Facebook as a course tool.
- 11. Facebook’s networking and social communication capabilities can benefit both the instructor and the student by tapping into a greater number of learning styles, providing an alternative to the traditional lecture format, creating an online classroom community, and increasing teacher- student and student-student interaction.