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1. Social Networking FACEBOOK EDC 3100 Presentation by NarelleWhtie

2. Index Social Networking video Facebook started Facebook social networking Facebook facts and statistics Rationale Positive aspects of facebook within the education system Facebook. Effective use by students video Position Facebook negatives - How to reduce the negative effects 10. Reasoning and content 11. Legal ramifications 12. Conclusion 13. References

5. Facebook was founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerber, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes from Harvard University students.

6. Membership was initially limited to Harvard students.

7. Facebook eventually expanded to include all college students, high school students, and, later anyone over the age of 13.

9. Accessed via the internet at www.facebook.com

10. Users can create profiles

11. Profiles can include the following- pictures, personal information, online journals called blogs, music, videos.

12. Facebook allows friends to comment

13. Users make new friends

15. Employees 1,400+

16. More than 50% of facebook accounts are used each day!

17. The average person has 130 friends.

18. Users spend more than 500 billion minutes per month on Facebook.

19. Average user is connected to over 60 pages, groups or events.

20. The Average user create 70 pieces of content each month

21. More than 25 billion pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photo albums, etc.) shared each month.

22. Facebook is translated in 70 languages (including pirate Arrrgg).

23. About 70% of users are outside the US.

24. More than 550,000 active applications currently on Facebook Platform.

27. Communities and flexible learning options

28. Personalisation

29. Online publishing

30. Electronic journals

31. Possibilities for improving and expanding education

32. Social interaction

33. Social Constructivism

34. Content sharing

35. Effectiveness and efficient

36. Interactive and constructive

37. Discussion groups

38. Authentic assessment

39. Group synergies

40. Student collaboration

43. Constructivism

44. Content sharing

45. Collaboration

46. Group Discussions

47. Authentic Assessment

48. Group synergiesPiaget Bruner Facebook can be used to collaborate and construct information.

49. Facebooknegitives

51. Construct profile pages for subjects

52. Post assignments

53. Homework

54. Revision activities

55. Questions

56. Posting special events

57. School photos

58. Videos‘Zone of Proximal Development’ (Vygotsky, 1978)

60. The negotiated curriculum and Burners theory can be achieved through engagement on facebook.

61. With the use of facebook the same information can be accessed simultaneously, all can be engage in discussion, gain further insight, explore material and exchange ideas or theories (Fraser. S, pp. 163-192).

62. Teachers must create a classroom community that supports students

63. Contribution

64. Facebook allows opportunity for students to interact

65. Teacher need to allocate time for conversations

66. Express any ideas and discuss theories. For all this to succeed with facebook the teacher would need to implement the social constructivist approach, so students can develop and enhance collaborative skills, allowing times for social interaction, so students can expressing their views, ideas and theories to each other to form a collaborative community. (Finger. G, pp. 94,119&112)

67. Conclusion:- The social world of a learner with facebook can include the people that directly affect that person, including teachers, friends, students, administrators, and participants in all forms of activities. Social networking and the constructivism approach, involves the learners in real world situations, with the emphasis being on context in which the learning takes place, it provides opportunity for students or learners to construct new knowledge and understanding for the authentic experience. Social networking can encourage learners to engage in dialogue with other students and the teacher, while maintaining the co-operative learning process.

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