Social media has grown exponetially in a short time, it has great influence on people's life at every aspect. Social Media Revolution
It amazed me in 3 aspects.
First of all, we have 96% of millennials have joined a social network.
Second, facebook added over 200 million users in less than a year.
Third, if facebook were a country, it would be the world's 3rd largest.
The three aspects above show that social media has great influence on people's life. Teachers should take advantage of the influence. For example, add students as friends on facebook and see what they are interested in. Also, teachers can post their thoughts on blogs and share them with students. In sum, as more and more people visit social network, teachers can use it as a powerful tool to communicate with students, rather than consider it as an annoyying thing which may distract students' concentration.
As for the vedio Changing Education Paradigms (Chinging Education Paradigms), I was interested in the animation rather than the content of it. I felt that animation is a great way to illustrate comparatively boring staff, and animation is typically suitable for on-line education. Teachers can link an teaching animation on blogs and students can see it and learn from it.
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Although social media has become a way of life for many of our students, I wouldn't suggest "friending" your students. I think most students would consider this as an intrusion into their social life. However, there are many social networking tools that would work well with students for educational purposes and we will be exploring some of them in this course.
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