SOCIAL MEDIA: TEACHING TOOL OR NOT?

Marija Matešić

Kristina Vučković

Zdravko Dovedan

Faculty of Humanities and Social SciencesDepartment of Information Sciences Zagreb, 2009-11-05

What is social media?

SOCIAL MEDIA IS AN UMBRELLA TERM THAT DEFINES THE VARIOUS ACTIVITIES THAT INTEGRATE TECHNOLOGY, SOCIAL INTERACTION, AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF WORDS, PICTURES, VIDEOS AND AUDIO

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Types of social media

Social networks MySpace, LinkedIn, Facebook

Content sharing sites YouTube, Flickr, SlideShare

Social bookmarking sites Delicious, StumbleUpon

Wikis (Wikipedia) Blogs & Microblogs (Twitter)

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Influnces of social media

Politics Journalisam

participatory journalisam Bussines

PR Marketing Customer support

Are they changing the way we learn and teach?

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SURVEY

About the survey

Survey distribution and completation April/May 2009

Target group Teachers Students

Full Sample N = 100 N = 268

Sampling Self-recruiting snowball sample

Method Online survey

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Socio-demographic analysis

  Teachers Students

Scientific field    

Technical Sciences 22% 38.42%

Natural sciences 3% 16.42%

Humanities 31% 12.69%

Social sciences 42% 30.97%

Biotechnology 1% 0.37%

Biomedicine and Health 1% 1.12%

Gender    

Male 37% 55%

Female 63% 45%

Age    

18 - 27   90.54%

28 - 36   4.48%

36 - 45   2.61%

Academic degree    

Assistant 41%  

Assistant Professor 18%  

Associate Professor 11%  

Full Professor 11%  

Lecturer 7%  

Librarian 6%  

Lector 5%  

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USAGE OF SOCIAL MEDIA

Usage9

Purposes

Reasons for using social media Teachers Students

Data retrieval and information extraction 52% 70.15%

Maintaining contacts 30% 61.57%

Education 36% 50.37%

Reconnecting with old contacts 20% 49.25%

Organization and planning of social events 12% 34.33%

Connecting with new contacts 12% 33.21%

Self-promotion 4% 19.40%

Other 4% 5.22%

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SOCIAL MEDIA AS A TEACHING TOOL

Social software in teaching process 1

Multiple choice question

57% of a teachers consider social software useful and 64.02% of students consider it as a potentially good idea

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Social media in teaching process 2

This question was answered by 14% of teachers who allready use SS in the teaching process

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Advantages of social software (teachers)14

Disadvantages of social software (teachers)

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Advantages of social software (students)16

Disadvantages of social software(students)

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Conclusion or Suggestions

social media as enhancement to standard teaching (and learning) process

implementing social media features into learning managment system

creating mandatory classes about new media we don’t need social media in education

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Q&A?

Thank you for your attention!

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