As technology is being integrated into educational processes, teachers are searching for new ways to enhance student motivation and learning. Through shared experiences and the results of empirical research, educators can ease social networking sites into instructional usage.
The Social Classroom: Integrating Social Network Use in Education collates different viewpoints on how social networking sites can be integrated in education. Highlighting both formal and informal uses of social interaction tools as learning tools, this book will be very useful to all educators, trainers and academic researchers in all aspects of education looking for a theoretical/practical approach to resourceful teaching.
Author(s): Gorg Mallia
Series: Advances in Educational Technologies and Instructional Design
Publisher: IGI Global
Year: 2013
Language: English
Pages: xxvi+532
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Introduction
Preface
Section 1: The Social in the Classroom: Formal and Informal Use of SNS in Teaching and Learning
1 The Use of Web 2.0 Technologies in Formal and Informal Learning Settings - Lisa A. Best, Diane N. Buhay, Katherine McGuire, Signe Gurholt, Shari Foley
2 An Informal Use of Facebook to Encourage Student Collaboration and Motivation for Off Campus Activities - Steve Hogg
3 Designing Learning in Social Online Learning Environments: A Process-Oriented Approach - Philip Bonanno
4 Classifying Facebook Usage in the Classroom or Around It - Marina Kandroudi, Tharrenos Bratitsis
Section 2: Socializing the Domain: Using SNS for Domain-Specific Teaching and Learning
5 The Use of Facebook as a Pedagogical Platform for Developing Investigative Journalism Skills - Wajeehah Aayeshah, Saba Bebawi
6 Modeling the Use of Facebook in Environmental Higher Education - Nataša Petrović, Veljko Jeremić, Dalibor Petrović, Marko Ćirović
7 Facebook’s Hidden Potential: Facebook as an Educational Support Tool in Foreign Language Education - Evrim Genç Kumtepe
8 Considerations for Online English Language Learning: The Use of Facebook in Formal and Informal Settings in Higher Education - Evriklea Dogoriti, Jenny Pange
9 Facebook as an Educational Environment for Mathematics Learning - Nimer Baya’a, Wajeeh Daher
Section 3: Inside/Outside Society: Ethical, Social, and Psychological Implications of SNS Educational Use
10 The Ethical Dilemmas of Social Networking Sites in Classroom Contexts - Glenn Auld, Michael Henderson
11 Preparing Your Digital Legacy: Assessing Awareness of Digital Natives - James Braman, Ursula Thomas, Giovanni Vincenti, Alfreda Dudley, Karen Rodgers
12 The Role of Students’ Personality Traits in the Effective Use of Social Networking Sites in the Educational Context - Josip Burusić, Mia Karabegović
13 Social Media in the Canadian Post-Secondary Classroom - Linda Pardy, David Thomson. Samantha Pattridge
14 Facebook and the Societal Aspects of Formal Learning: Optional, Peripheral, or Essential - Carolyn Woodley, Petrina Dorrington
Section 4: Socializing Tools: Individual Social Networks and Their Use in Instruction
15 Diigo, Collaborative Knowledge Acquisition, and Social Networks of Graduate-Level Coursework - John Fenn
16 Does Facebook Provide Educational Value? An Overview of Theoretical and Empirical Advancements of Affordances and Critical Issues - Stefania Manca, Maria Ranieri
17 Brevity is the Soul of Wit: Twitter in the Shakespeare Classroom - Michael Ullyot
18 MOOCs: Exploiting Networks for the Education of the Masses or Just a Trend? - Vanessa Camilleri, Leonard Busuttil, Matthew Montebello
Section 5: Social Networking Cases: Case Studies of Using Individual SNS in Teaching and Learning
19 New Visual Social Media for the Higher Education Classroom - Julie A. Delello, Rochell R. McWhorter
20 Social Networking for Educational Purposes: The Development of Social-Cultural Skills through Special Interest Groups - Nikleia Eteokleous-Grigoriou, Despo Ktoridou
21 Personal Learning Environments and Social Networks in the Traditional School System: An Applied Case Study in the Greek Educational System - Christos Manolis, Eleni Kalaitzidou
22 Teachers’ Use of Social Networking Sites for Continuing Professional Development - Daniel Xerri
