...available to Apple’s Itunes store, the article also states California did a trail run with using iPads in classrooms and the result was students outperformed students that used textbooks. Using technology in the classroom is going to benefit the students because this generation enjoys technology, I think it will be easier for students to learn this way. Lytle, Ryan. 24 May 2011. “5 Unique Uses of Twitter in the Classroom”. US news. Retrieved from: http://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/articles/2011/05/24/5-unique-uses-of-twitter-in-the-classroom A lot of social media is starting to be accepted in the classroom. YouTube has become extremely popular because professors can send lecture videos to students to watch when they are not in class. Twitter, on the other hand is a source one professor is using to communicate to students in a unique way. The professor lets his students know if class is cancelled, or he can put out a text link for students to read if it helps them in a assignment. Twitter is gaining more and more popular everything and when teachers begin to communicate with their students through here for educational purposes, it’s only going to help them in the long run because it will make school life a lot easier to learn and way for the classroom to stay connected. Lytle, Ryan. 14 July 2011. “Study: Emerging Technology Has Positive Impact in Classroom”. Professor Roshan had a lot of difficulty keeping her students engaged in the...
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...Introduction “ a picture is worth a thousand words” (Byk, 2011). It is often known that students differ in their learning styles, so teachers are supposed to pay more attention to such a problem. The traditional teaching technique or direct instruction style suits most students, but there are other different auditory or visual learners who need different teaching style. So teachers have to vary their techniques used inside their classes in order to achieve better understanding among their students. One of recommended solutions is using audio visual aids as a helping technique in classrooms. Many teachers adopt this style and they find it a fruitful technique that it not only develops language skills, but also contributes in giving students background for many cultures as well (Stoller, 1995). Despite the fact that using audio visuals is remarkably a useful technique, we can notice that it is not a common technique in the Palestinian schools because of many reasons. The problem of the study Using audio visual aids in teaching languages is a notably effective teaching style since it can make a class more lively and interesting; so students’ ability to understand is enhanced by such technique. Consequently, most teachers in the world adopt this technique, but unfortunately, it is not the same in Gaza schools as the majority of them do not use this technique, and they depend mainly and sometimes only on the ordinary teaching style. The need of the study While checking books...
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...WHAT IS YOUTUBE YouTube is a website designed for sharing video. Millions of users around the world have created accounts on the site that allow them to upload videos that anyone can watch. Every minute of every day, more than 35 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube. Video files can be very large and are often too big to send to someone else by email. By posting a video on YouTube, you can share a video simply by sending the other person a url ‘link’ – that is, the 'address' of the relevant internet page. When YouTube was created in 2005, it was intended for people to post and share original video content. But since then it's also become both an archive for storing favourite clips, songs and jokes, as well as a marketing site for companies to promote their products. Nowadays the term ‘viral video’ is common. This refers to a video clip that people have liked so much that they've shared its link by email with millions of others around the globe – in effect, it's spread like a virus. Companies have realised that they can harness this ability to reach potential customers and have created their own YouTube accounts for posting advertisements and other marketing videos. Film and television companies maintain a tight control over their own content and block illegal sharing of their programmes. However, several now use YouTube to allow fans to see high-quality trailers or repeats of recently aired shows. ADVANTAGES OF USING YOUTUBE i) Huge video database ...
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... Twitter, Intagram and Youtube are few examples of the relatively new phenomenon of Online Social Networking Sites. People of all ages are flocking to the internet and are signing up for different Social Networking Sites. Facebook for example, based on my research in some sites; there are 901 million monthly active users and more than 125 billion friend connections at the end of the month. This popularity of Social Networking Sites is constantly growing. We as students are set to take the advantage of the multiple collaboration tools and discussion opportunities provided by Social Networking Sites for higher education. Despite the fact that is limited guidance on how educators can integrate Social Networking Sites into subjects which have been traditionally delivered face to face, we to conduct a survey to know the information on the potential benefits or harmful effects using Social Networking Sites as a new innovative way to try to engage students and improve their achievements. Munoz and Towner support this effort when they suggest that, “The benefit of Facebook’s networking and social communication capabilities can benefit both the instruction and the student by trapping into a greater number of learning styles, providing alternative to the traditional lecture format, creating an online classroom community, increasing teacher-student and student-student interaction. ” If teacher are indeed encourage to bring Social Networking into the classroom, then the Research Question...
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...discussed how teachers can manage the flow of traffic in their classroom by effectively arranging the furniture in the classroom. Managing the flow of traffic in the classroom is just as important as selecting the needed materials. I have been working in a preschool classroom as an aide since 2009, and this was the first year I was able to give input on placement of the furniture in the classroom. During the summer, I provided the teacher with a general layout of the furniture and the reasoning for the placement of the centers, desks and other furniture. The classroom is free from clutter, the centers are grouped together by active and quiet areas, and the children are provided with a wide variety of toys, manipulatives, books and puzzles. Each center is labeled and the children are assigned a particular center and rotate throughout the centers during the week. Actually, not only are the centers labeled by area but the furniture is labeled with words to help with word recognition. Although this video did not provide me with any new information; it did confirm that the classroom is properly setup to manage the traffic flow. I have had a few years of experience in the classroom and although I was not taught “management of traffic” I have found that I have already been executing and effective traffic pattern in the classroom. The one thing that was suggested to the principal was replacing the carpet in the classroom to tile, this would allow for easy cleanup of spills throughout...
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...media has become an increasingly popular hobby for many students; therefore, teachers will most likely benefit from implementing it into their e-learning curriculum. There are several ways that social media can be applied in e-learning. The social media site Facebook can be used for students to share and post ideas and information, which can promote learning. Twitter can help students connect with each other while rallying around a topic or idea (Krutka & Milton, 2013). YouTube, my personal favorite, has so much free information that teachers can use it to support the lesson, and even podcasts are essential because they allow the students to connect to audio content over the web. So many wonderful lessons can be taught and developed using social media and though it may not be ideal or accepted by everyone, you cannot deny the positive effects social media can have on learning if implemented correctly (Faizi & El Afia, 2013). The Good vs. The Bad There are many good qualities that social media bring to the classroom learning experience. Oftentimes students are engaged in their own worlds but social media can help unite students by having them work together as a team. This helps to prepare them for later experiences because there will be times where they will have to work together in a group, whether it’s at school or at work (Margenson, 2013). Also, social media helps support the teacher’s lesson. Some students are visual learners and it is not...
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...getting its message across to not let someone commit suicide and to recognize the signs before it’s too late. The ad uses primarily the pathos and ethos appeals to reach its audience, with the majority of the logos appeal in the end. It uses several visual and audio tools to set a grim and drear tone through the ad and then uplift it towards the end. The ad effectively uses several things as tools to appeal and influence the emotions of its audience. Right from the start the ad is playing a slow song and it slowly zooms out to show an empty seat where a student is missing. This grabs the audience’s attention, then in the next scene the audience sees another classroom. In this classroom the students are painting and another empty seat is shown. This makes the audience feel now that something is wrong. More and more classrooms and school activities are shown with students missing. This repetition is being used to set the feeling into the audience that something is wrong, and in the scenes the other students are carrying on with their activities and classes as if nothing is wrong makes the scenes feel even more wrong. In the scene with the birthday cake and the candles, the dark room and the image of the once again empty chair almost everything is being used to touch the audience. The room being dark sets a grim tone. The birthday party itself is familiar and a very personal time that every audience member should relate to in a positive way, giving the audience the expectation of...
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...newsrooms never seem to hesitate when controversy rears is ugly head. In theory, it is absolutely vital for the mass media to keep an eye on the way in which governments administer and develop education, but it has to be said that in this day and age of a battle for survival within the mass media industry, the watchdog does tend to become somewhat rabid at times. Like most businesses the mass media often takes a line of least resistance when problems occur and a first step always seems to blame the trades union movements. In South Africa the South African Democratic Teachers Union (SADTU) inevitably faces tremendous criticism from the mass media when its members protest the enormous challenges and deprivations they face in the classrooms. Many of those challenges having very little to do with actual teaching. Regrettably, the relationship between the mass media and education involves a lot of indulgence in blame-games and reaction by both sides to superficial symptoms. There is undeniably an urgent need for the education authorities and the mass media to join together in improving the lot of our youngsters and young adults. The media cannot just be a watchdog and nothing else and the national and provincial education departments cannot work in isolation or out of the public eye. It is no good the mass media simply...
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...merge scholarly thought in the areas of Internet studies, digital divides, social capital theory, psychological well-being, identity development, academic engagement, and educational technology to understand how researchers might examine new social technologies and youth. Second, I examine the question of digital divide, or whether particular teenage populations do not have access to online social networks. Using a nationally representative dataset from the Pew Internet & American Life study, I explore whether there are disparities in teenage access to social network sites. Third, I report a cluster-randomized trial that was designed to explore whether social network sites have a beneficial impact when used in high school classrooms. A total of 50 classrooms, and nearly 1,400 students were randomly assigned to use an experimental social network site. The results highlight the challenges and potential of this technology when applied to school contexts. iii Table of Contents Acknowledgements i i List of Tables i v Abstract v Chapter 1 : Introduction 1 Chapter 2: The Effect of Social Network Sites on Adolescents’ Social and Academic Development – Contemporary Issues and Research 7 Figure 2.1: Average Number of One’s Active Network 35 Chapter 3 : Digital Divide and Social Network Sites – Which Students Participate in Social Media? 60 Chapter 4 : The Effect of Social Networ k Sites on High School Students – A Cluster - Randomized Trial 85 Chapter 5 : Future Directions for Research...
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...I chose to look at a video of school rules and their importance in the 1950s, which I found on YouTube. Although uploaded to YouTube in 2008, the video was produced by Coronet Instructional Films in 1953. This video particularly intrigued me because I am interested in becoming a teacher and always want to see how school life and the classroom environment were significant in a time other than today. Also, with my research paper topic being childhood in the 1950s, this was particularly helpful in describing what school life was like. Much was happening during this time including The Montgomery Bus Boycotts, civil rights, WWII, desegregation of schools and the atomic bomb. It was intriguing to see how the video went about enforcing rules during the hardships of the time and making sure all students knew and understood just how significant rules can be. The video lays out the importance of rules, especially in a challenging setting like a school and strives to make it clear to students that rules are made for a reason and no one is exempt from them. I had positive feelings while watching the video and I felt good in knowing that authority figures like principals and teachers are helping to ensure students understand the rules and know why they are used. I appreciated that the video is easy to follow and detailed enough to express the point but not so much as to overdo it. Three clear aspects of the video stuck out to me: 1. To have all students read, watch, and ask questions...
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...Pre-Web 2.0 .................................................................................................................................. 3 2. Web 2.0 ......................................................................................................................................... 5 3. Applications of Web 2.0 ................................................................................................................. 5 3.1 Marketing ................................................................................................................................ 5 3.2 Pedagogy ................................................................................................................................. 7 3.2.1 Case Study on Classroom 2.0 ............................................................................................. 8 3. Web 2.0 Business Models .............................................................................................................. 9 3.1 Case Study - Facebook ........................................................................................................... 10 4. Web 2.0 in Businesses as support ................................................................................................ 11 4.1 Dell ........................................................................................................................................ 11 4.2 Procter & Gamble...
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...Skip to main content Sign InRegister Facebook Twitter Google+ Pinterest WHAT WORKS IN EDUCATION The George Lucas Educational Foundation Edutopia Browse Topics Watch Videos Join the Conversation About Us April 22, 2015 Trending: Laughter and Learning: Humor Boosts Retention Search form Search Classroom Management Subscribe to RSS 7 Tips for Better Classroom Management September 11, 2013 Share Share1.6K 32 Image credit: shiksastudio via YouTube In my mind, the first and most basic obligation of a teacher is to see the beauty that exists within every student. Every child is infinitely precious. Period. When we start from this vantage point, classroom management -- and its flip side, student engagement -- comes more easily. It's an outgrowth of students feeling loved and respected. This video, shot in the first few days of my classroom in 2010, and the seven tips below will show how I try to put these ideas into practice. 1. Love your Students Love them -- and stand firmly against behavior that doesn't meet your expectations or reflect their inner greatness. Too many students have internalized a profound sense of their own inadequacy, and it is incumbent upon us to remind them of their infinite value and counteract the many messages that they receive to the contrary. By loving our students unconditionally, we remind them of their true worth. Our students know how we feel about them. If we don't like them -- or if we see them as...
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...4. Content communities (for example, YouTube and DailyMotion) ------------------------------------------------- YouTube is a video-sharing website, on which users can upload, view and share videos. It contains a a wide variety of user-generated video content, including video clips, TV clips, and music videos, and amateur content such as video blogging, short original videos, and educational videos. ------------------------------------------------- YouTube is the most frequently used social media tool in the classroom. Students can watch videos, answer questions, and discuss content. Additionally, students can create videos to share with others. A series of studies has shown that youtube increased participation, personalization and productivity. It also improved students’ digital skills and provided opportunity for peer learning and problem solving, kept students’ attention, generated interest in the subject, and clarified course content. Additionally, the students reported that the videos helped them recall information and visualize real world applications of course concepts. ------------------------------------------------- Mobile social media Social media used in combination with mobile devices are called mobile social media. This is a group of mobile marketing applications that allow the creation and exchange of user-generated content. Due to the fact that mobile social media run on mobile devices, they differ from traditional social media by incorporating new factors...
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...much is very common is Google. Another common digital tool that is used a lot would be youtube, it is a very popular site for video content like music videos, tutorials, etc. Another form of digital tools is Wikipedia. These three digital tools that I have mentioned are a few of the most common tools used today. There are very many search engines out there, but there is definitely one that in my opinion trumps them all, and that is Google Search. Google Search is also already programmed into the address bar on your smart phones, so when you have to do a search, it is as easy as just using the address bar to type the information you are searching for and it automatically takes you to Google Search. It has helped a lot when it comes to time management, to find the information need to write that paper can be easily found at just a click of a button and just like that you have found all the information needed to write that paper. You can input addresses and it can easily give directions to your destination. Google Search has become pretty much a one stop shop for all you’re searching. How can we forget Youtube. Easy access to videos, most of the time any video that you are searching for is usually always found on youtube. It is great innovative way to look for videos from commercials, tutorials, documentaries, and even education videos. It helps when needing a visual on certain criteria. Youtube has established itself as the leading source in searching for videos at your fingertips...
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...Teaching has changed over the years, now we can learn by watching YouTube or putting information into Google instead of a going to a teacher (Graves, 2013). According to Graves (2013) teachers must promote passion for the subject and show students can use it in their everyday life and help them solve everyday problems, and reassure students that they can be successful in life no matter what path they decided to follow. According to Lanier (1997), the role of teachers in American culture has changed. Teachers are different from the old traditional way of teaching, in today’s school instructions do not consist of lectures, but rather offers a rich and rewarding unique learning experience. The learning environment in school is not only in the classroom, but also in the home and community. Books are not the only way of learning, knowledge is available everywhere. Teachers are encourage to adopt and adapt to new practices that acknowledge both the art and science in learning. Teacher now understand that there is a very close relationship between a knowledgeable, caring adult and a secure motivated child (Lanier, 1997). Teachers are now realizing that traditional role of king or queen of the classroom is in the past, they are finding out that they accomplish more if the adopt the role educational guides, facilitators, and co-learners (Lanier, 1997). The role of teachers inside and outside of the classroom can lead to a better school and better educated students. Everyone...
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