Wednesday, March 30, 2016
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Nowadays, young people most likely use online social media such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram to communicate with their friends. By having an online conversation or chatting, sending private messages, reading news can be done by on social media. Online social media itself is the relationship among users through the digital media to bring people together as communities. Social Media on teaching and learning is a new community where teachers and students do not have to communicate by means of the traditional face-to-face classroom environment.
In my previous class in Advanced Listening Comprehension, my lecturer used the Edmodo as the online media learning. Edmodo is an educational website that takes the ideas of a social network and makes it appropriate for a classroom. Using Edmodo, students and teacher can reach out and connect by sharing ideas, problems and assignments. A teacher can assign and grade for every work that be done by the students. It is a safe environment because there is no bullying or inappropriate content because the teacher can see everything that is posted on Edmodo. It is a good educational website to collaborate within the teacher and students outside the class.
The new changing way of teaching-learning environment in using Social Media brings about the impact of how the teaching-learning process and teacher-students roles. In teaching-learning process of Social Media, the teachers are combining between of online and formal teaching. They are assessing, reflecting, implementing and revising the online teaching plan. The teachers also need to provide the appropriate material related to the lesson plan and the online website that they used.
With the social media integrated as the new environment of learning, the teachers’ role is less controlled. The teachers should be an instructional designer and the facilitator when the online course begins. They also had to be aware of a balance of flexibility of the teaching time and problem-solving tasks that might occur anytime while working on a lesson. The students have to engage the online task-based learning discussion. They also expected that the best online teachers must be able to provide useful feedback, advise them for discussion and encourage them to have critical thinking. In social media, it allows the students to overcome their shyness in asking questions outside the classroom and they feel limited by boundaries between lectures and themselves.
Outside the Edmodo, there are many of social media are being used for language learning and educational purposes such as Edublog, Moodle, Google Forms and Animoto. However, it is the teacher’s own premise to select what is the considered best to apply for their students. It might be the case that works best for others may be the worst for oneself. Teacher must be carefully monitored to avoid some misunderstandings in the learning-teaching process.
References Links:
2. http://e-teachingweb.blogspot.co.id/2016/03/online-social-media-applications-for.html#comment-form
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