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Educational pedagogy has swung over the years between focusing on individual-centered learning, group learning, and peer-to-peer learning. If you take a peer-to-peer learning approach, you are inherently valuing the social networks that youth have and maintain, or else you are encouraging them to build one. These networks are mediated and reinforced through SNSs. If there is pedagogical value to encouraging peers to have strong social networks, then there is pedagogical value in supporting their sociable practices on SNSs.
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This not to say that technology doesn't belong in the classroom. Information access tools like Wikipedia and Google are tremendously valuable for getting access to content and should be strongly encouraged and taught through the lens of media literacy. Email, IM, or other communication tools can be super useful for distributing content to the group or between individuals or even providing a channel for group discussion (in-class or out). Blogging tools and group sharing tools are also quite valuable. Having to produce for the group instead of the teacher can work as a powerful incentive; most youth don't want to be embarrassed in front of their peers and pressure to perform can be leveraged to the teacher's advantage. But why social network sites? To the degree that they support blogging and group sharing, sure... but that's not the key point of them at all. They key features that make them unique are: profiles plus visible, articulated and surfable friends' lists. I simply don't get why these are of value in the classroom.
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Keith KriegerDanah Boyd's blog and post on social networking tools. I respect her opinion, given the depth of research she has done over the past few years. She contends that social networking tools should not be used in education. Rather, the emphasis on social in so
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Josh PaluchThe Economist Debate on Social "Networking"
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stop fearing and/or fetishizing technology
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Robyn JayThe Economist Debate on Social "Networking"
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Kristina Hoeppnerdiscussed in e.g. http://weblogg-ed.com/2008/socail-networks-no-vs-social-tools-yes-in-schools/
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Lisa Spirodanah boyd argues against use of social networking in schools, contending that facebook, myspace et al are more appropriate as social, informal connection building tools
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Paul McMahonSome great comments here on the value of social networking.
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Brian C. SmithDebate about how social networking can changes educational methods in and out of the classroom.
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Ryan Petersongreat article on social networking in education
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Leigh BlackallGiven that MySpace and Facebook are ubiquitous, can social networking be defined as the "collective power of community to help inform perspectives that would not be unilaterally formed" or is it simply a distraction for students? Can these tools could be
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Educational pedagogy has swung over the years between focusing on individual-centered learning, group learning, and peer-to-peer learning. If you take a peer-to-peer learning approach, you are inherently valuing the social networks that youth have and maintain, or else you are encouraging them to build one. These networks are mediated and reinforced through SNSs. If there is pedagogical value to encouraging peers to have strong social networks, then there is pedagogical value in supporting their sociable practices on SNSs.
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This not to say that technology doesn't belong in the classroom. Information access tools like Wikipedia and Google are tremendously valuable for getting access to content and should be strongly encouraged and taught through the lens of media literacy. Email, IM, or other communication tools can be super useful for distributing content to the group or between individuals or even providing a channel for group discussion (in-class or out). Blogging tools and group sharing tools are also quite valuable. Having to produce for the group instead of the teacher can work as a powerful incentive; most youth don't want to be embarrassed in front of their peers and pressure to perform can be leveraged to the teacher's advantage. But why social network sites? To the degree that they support blogging and group sharing, sure... but that's not the key point of them at all. They key features that make them unique are: profiles plus visible, articulated and surfable friends' lists. I simply don't get why these are of value in the classroom.
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The Economist Debate on Social "Networking"
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William FerriterA pretty defining post about the role that social networking can---and can't---play in the lives of our kids and our classrooms. My favorite quote: Social networking sites don't encourage networking. They simply reinforce pre-existing networks.
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Howard Rheingoldcan social networking be defined as the "collective power of community to help inform perspectives that would not be unilaterally formed" or is it simply a distraction for students? Can these tools could be used in the classroom?
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Nan LefebureThe Economist Debate on Socialnetworking
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Social network sites do not help most youth see beyond their social walls. Because most youth do not engage in "networking," they do not meet new people or see the world from a different perspective. Social network sites reinforce everyday networks, providing a gathering space when none previously existed.
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If there is pedagogical value to encouraging peers to have strong social networks, then there is pedagogical value in supporting their sociable practices on SNSs
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John Riveravia willrich45 on Twitter
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In their current incarnation, social network sites (SNSs) like Facebook and MySpace should not be integrated directly into the classroom. That said, they provide youth with a valuable networked public space to gather with their peers.
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SNSs do not make youth engage educationally; they allow educationally-motivated youth with a structure to engage educationally.
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