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MEANING AND SCOPE OF
NETWORKING IN LEARNING
BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE
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NETWORKING
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NETWORKING AND EDUCATION
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SCOPE OF
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INTERNET
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EDUCATIONAL BLOGS
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TWITTER
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CONCLUSION
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INTRODUCTION
Technology has changed the way
we as humans live; it changes our understanding of the way
things work and changes the way we interact with one another. Technology was
once opposed but is now somewhat welcomed into our homes. During the
renaissance period, technology was opposed, as the church believed that
technology would oppose the beliefs of god. Well they were right. Technology isn’t just computers or TV’s, its
engineering science. And in Science, our
goal is to progress
and understand everything there is
to understand about us, our planet and beyond. However, the
way we understand and experience this concept the most is that its just to make
our lives much more efficient.
In this world of
emerging technology, computers and
internet has their
major role in concerning
the life style of
man. The emerging generations
of humans are
highly adapted to the
newer world, thus utilizing
such chances of technology
to rise their standard of living.
Technology has
reached in such a peak that we use it everywhere from
home to workspace, school , hospitals, roads, banks
and now
even in worship
places. Networking sites are
product of millennium
era which has
become an inevitable
part of human
life. They are used
widely into the
field of education
and they have
more chances to be utilized. Networking is
a part of
technology that connects various persons from all over the
world , provide current information
on almost all aspect
of the universe.
NETWORKING
An networking is a
platform to build
or connect many information or
persons by means
of locally executed
software.
v Networking
connect
people of same
interest, activities, backgrounds
or real life
connections .
v Networking
sites
consist of each user , his
social links and
variety of additional
services.
v Networking facilitates sharing of
information , sharing of resources (
both hardware and
software ), sharing of processing
load etc.
v Networking allows
individuals to
create a public profile ,a list of
uses with the view
and cross like within
the system.
v Network sites
are varied and
they incorporate new
information and communication
tools such as
mobile connectivity,
internet such as e-mail, messaging sharing
and blogging.
v Networks allows
users to share
ideas, pictures, posts, activities, events, interests with
people in their network
v The major
networking sites are
internet, face book, twitter, LinkedIn, instogram, you tube, Google etc
v Online community
services are sometimes
considered as a
network sources , though in
a broader sense, are
group centered
v The
National School Boards
Association reports that
almost 60% of
students who use
networking talk about
education topics online,
more than 50%
talk specifically about
school work.
v Networks are
focused on supporting
relationships between teachers
and their students
are now used
for learning, educator professional
development and content
sharing.
v Ning for
teachers, Term Wiki, Learn Central, Teach Street and
other sites are
being build to
foster relationships .
v It
include educational blogs,
eport folios, formal and
communities as well as
communication such as chats, discussion
threads and synchronous
forums.
v These networks
have content sharing
and rating features.
v Networks are
emerging as online
year books, both public and
private.
v My
Yearbook allows anyone
from the general
public to register
and connect which
allows access to
students, parents, and
teachers of a
particular school, similar to
Face book ‘s beginning with
Harvard.
NETWORKING AND
EDUCATION
Networks can be successfully used in the
field of education .
v Seguin
and Seguin (1995) recommends
educators that they
may gain benefit
such as programme
exchange, job announcements, creating
relief funds or
searching such funds, arranging concurrent
or non concurrent
conferences and publishing
studies conducted by
themselves or their students.
v Studies such
as course plans,
activities etc can
be more effectively
used by a
larger number of
educators over a
database. In the advantages of
deriving from the
use of social
networks as an
educational toll, inter activity
and participation provided
by such environments
should be also
mentioned.
SCOPE OF
NETWORKING IN LEARNING
SCIENCE
v Networking services
are not for
entertainment only but
also for educational
applications
v Networking are
very helpful in
teaching and learning
of science and
life related aspects
v The advantages
of networking when
considering as an
educational tool,
interactivity and participation
provided are very
high.
v The 2012
survey conducted by
online colleges determined
that two thirds of
faculty members use
social media in
classroom
v Independence from
time and location improvement
in quality, success and
efficiency of education
by use of
computer for education.
v Individualization of
learning and ability
to have instant
feedback.
v Ability
to
learn in more
systemic manner and
in shorter time due to advances
in computer technology.
v Offering the
students ability to
repeat course content as
much as desired.
v Ease of
displacing content.
v Allowing to
design of visual
and auditory learning
environments.
v Ability to
present courses that
require laboratory applications
to students via simulation, animation and
virtual laboratories.
v Archiving course
content and synchronized
classes or virtual
class application.
v Promotes bidirectional
communications between teacher
and students.
v Teachers can
introduce the new
chapter with videos,
films or animated
cartoons which are
available in social
networking sites.
v Teacher can
gave ideas and
assignments, seminar topics through
networking sites even
when the students
are abscent5.
v The videos
of the classes
conducted can be uploaded
in the sites, the students
members can view
the classes if
they are absent.
v Networking sites are
helpful to students
of distance education
and those who
work and study
and they didn’t miss
the class.
v Tendency towards
more voluntary behaviors
on the side
of students for
improving research, knowledge and
skills in comparison
to conventional programs.
v Offers possibility
to evaluate performance
of students through
online assignments, blogs
etc.
v
The
networks minimize risk
of error in
measuring evaluation results.
v
Improving
skills of students
and teachers to reach,
evaluate, use and
efficiently cite the
knowledge.
v
Science
experiments which are
not practicable in the
classroom or which
does not become
complete in the
given time can
be visualized through
networking sites.
INTERNET
v The Internet is a global system of
interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to link several billion devices
worldwide.
v It is
an international network of networks
that consists of millions of private, public, academic, business, and
government packet switched networks, linked by a broad array of electronic,
wireless, and optical networking technologies.
v The Internet carries an extensive range of
information resources and services, such as the inter-linked hypertext documents and applications of the World
Wide Web (WWW), the infrastructure to support email, and peer-to-peer networks for file
sharing and telephony.
v The origins of the Internet date back to
research commissioned by the United States government in the 1960s to build robust, fault-tolerant
communication via computer networks.[1]
v The
Internet has no centralized governance in either technological implementation
or policies for access and usage; each constituent network sets its own
policies.[
v The Internet carries an extremely large
number of network services, including the World
Wide Web, electronic
mail, Internet phone, audio, video and file transfer services.
v The Web is a global set of documents, images and other resources, logically interrelated
by hyperlinks and referenced with Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs).
v World Wide Web browser software, such as
Microsoft's Internet Explorer, Mozilla
Firefox, Opera, Apple's Safari, and Google Chrome, lets users navigate from one web page to another via hyperlinks
embedded in the documents. documents may also contain any combination of computer
data, including graphics, sounds, text, video, multimedia and interactive content that runs while the
user is interacting with the page.
v Client-side software can include animations, games, office applications and scientific demonstrations.
v Email is an important communications service
available on the Internet.
v The concept of sending electronic text
messages between parties in a way analogous to mailing letters or memos predates
the creation of the Internet.
EDUCATION
THROUGH INTERNET
v Internet is
educative as it
involves access to
information and contains
huge quantities of
data on numerous topics
v Internet has
information on most of the advanced
research topics in
highly technical or
scientific areas besides
information on most
of advanced research
topics in technical
or scientific areas
besides information on very
pretty topics.
v The use
of internet could
provide wider access to
good quality education
at low coast.
v Provides information
and education to
wider range of
population in corner
of globe
v Internet is a tool
to disseminate large
quantities of information,
to propel the
masses forward on path of
prosperity in the shortest
possible time with
minimum resources
v The learning
process in internet
is interesting and interactive.
v The students
have greater opportunity
of creativity.
v The internet
removes the limitation of
v Fixed timing
of imparting education
v Restrictions on
learners pace of learning
v Learner’s ability
to afford quality education at
the best school, college or
university anywhere in the
world.
v Net is
handy for students, teachers, researchers as
well as for
those preparing several examination
including civil service
examination.
EDUCATIONAL BLOGS
v A
web based publication consisting
primarily of periodic
articles, most often in
reverse chronological order
v Blogging is the
posting of journal
like pages to
a website.
v Teachers and
educators have used blogs to
allow for what
is commonly called
peer review .
v the students
can post writings
or assignments to
the web or
encourage through the
content feature.
TEACHER
COMMUNICATION
v Teachers will
often start a blog
for providing communication to
students, parents or teachers.
v The posting
of homework or
other assignments in
on easy to
find location.
v Drawing the
parents into what
their children are
working on or
far students and
parents to ask
questions or for
classification where the
answers would be
of interest to all
the teachers.
DIALOGUE
GENERATION
v A
teacher blog that
posts questions about
current subject can
be a great way
to introduce students
to responding in
writing and contribution.
v A
teacher might ask specific
thought provoking questions
about a book
the class is
reading.
v A teacher
can ask for
students to respond
through the comments
feature with their
ideas.
v This is
often done as
a voluntary exercise
to help demonstrate
the uses of blog in
easy steps
STUDENTS
BLOGS
v The providing
of each student with an
individual blog seems
to generate the
most significant enthusiasm
for blogging among
students.
v Whether done
through special programs
that allow strict
teache5r control and
filtering on the
blog spots.
v Comments or
through public services
with parent and
teacher oversight.
v Students with
individual blogs are
not made public
and the feedback
is just from classmates
are specially allowed individuals.
v Students have
to overseen with
the coaching and
training to make
sure that the
both personal data
is communicated.
TEACHER
BLOG
v Teacher can
blog for each
other about their experiences
teaching , their
philosophies and their
methodology.
v Blogging has
a unique ability
to create enthusiasm
for writing and
the communication of
ideas.
v The videos
of the classes
conducted can be uploaded in
the sites the
students members can
view the classes
if they are absent.
TWITTER
v
Twitter is an online social networking service that enables users to send and read
short 140-character messages called "tweets".
v
Registered
users can read and post tweets, but unregistered users can only read them.
Users access Twitter through the website interface, SMS, or mobile device app.
v
Twitter Inc. is based in San
Francisco and has more than 25
offices around the world. Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack
Dorsey, Evan Williams, Biz
Stone and Noah
Glass and by July 2006 the
site was launched.
v
The service rapidly gained worldwide
popularity, with more than 100 million users who in 2012 posted 340 million
tweets per day.
v
In 2013 Twitter was one of the ten most-visited websites, and has been described as "the SMS of
the Internet.
v
Twitter has become internationally
identifiable by its signature bird logo. The original logo was in use from its
launch in March 2006 until September 2010.
v
A slightly
modified version succeeded the first style when the website underwent its first
redesign.
v
Tweets are
publicly visible by default, but senders can restrict message delivery to just
their followers.
v
Users can tweet via the Twitter website, compatible
external applications (such as for smartphones), or by Short Message Service (SMS) available in certain countries.
v
Retweeting is when a tweet is forwarded via
Twitter by users. Both tweets and retweets can be tracked to see which ones are
most popular.
EDUCATIONAL IMPLICATIONS
v
Twitter has
been adopted as a communication and learning tool in educational settings
mostly in colleges and universities.
v
It has been
used as a backchannel to promote student interactions, especially in large-lecture courses.
v
Research has found that using Twitter in
college courses helps students communicate with each other and faculty,
promotes informal learning, allows shy students a forum for increased
participation, increases student engagement, and improves overall course
grades.
v
One of the simplest ways that teachers can
use Twitter in the classroom involves setting up a feed dedicated
exclusively to due dates, tests or quizzes.
v
Set up an interesting assignment requesting
that students set up Twitter for education lists following feeds relevant to their
career goals and keep a daily journal on any trends that crop up along the way
v
Rather than keeping up with an e-mail train,
students can use Twitter to collaborate on different projects and keep a quick
reference on any changes.
v
Bring a little technology into debates by asking the class which
issues they would like to follow.
v
Subscribe to relevant hash tags and accounts
from all perspectives and compile an updated resource cobbling together as much
research as possible.
v
Sick kids or paranoid parents may like the
idea of following along with class field trips on Twitter, and smart
phone-enabled teachers can keep them engaged with pictures and descriptions of
the lessons learned.
v
Computer-savvy teachers can keep history
lessons engaging for children by asking them to tweet ideas and quotes from
their favorite figures. Alternately, they can also pretend to be famous
fictional characters as well.
v
Teachers and students from around the world
can collaborate on projects using Twitter as a communication tool that
simultaneously educates students in different classroom and cultural protocols.
v
Parents of K-12 students interested in daily
classroom activities can follow teacher tweets discussing some of the lessons
learned and any progress on projects with one quick and handy trip to a
dedicated Twitter feed.
v
Save paper by using Twitter to post up sample
questions for upcoming exams for students to research and consider without ever
having to put down their computers.
v
Benefitting both students and their parents,
teachers may like the idea of using Twitter to discuss films and documentaries
or books to check out at home – preferably as a family.
v
Doing so especially benefits younger students, as they
typically perform better in high school and college if their parents are
involved in their lives and educations.
v
Encourage parental engagement by asking them
to voice their opinions on where to go and where to avoid when it comes to
planning field trips.
v
While it is impossible to please everyone,
moms and dads will appreciate the transparency and ability to connect more with
what their children are doing and learning in school.
v
E-mail inboxes often filter out important
messages as junk and students lose papers or miss class for various reasons,
meaning that some of them may miss out on important announcements regarding any
changes to the syllabus.
v
Twitter keeps a permanent record of any new bits of information
so nobody has any excuse for missing out.
v
Numerous educators have found creative ways to blend Twitter and Google Earth
together for human and physical geography lessons where they use the former’s
“location” feature to learn all about new places on the globe.
v
Post a daily challenge asking kids to unscramble
anagrams, contribute synonyms or antonyms or give a definition for any
vocabulary or spelling words as another way of getting them more involved in their language
lessons.
v
Educators with access to digital video cameras may like
the idea of using Twiddeo to post in-class skits, walkthroughs of
field trips, clips of their travel exploits and anything else relevant to their
students’ lessons.
v
Beyond using it for lessons, teachers who
Twitter have at their disposal a vast regarding social networking in the
classroom and other topics.
v
Because e-mail filtering frequently ships important
messages off to the trash can, some educators may prefer talking privately with
kids and their parents via the direct message feature on Twitter instead.
CONCLUSION
Network is
a common concept
which gained its
position and popularity
in our life
as a recent
consequence. It refers to
locations with highly
accessible and sharable
content. The possibility to
make shared content reach
more people may
be increased when
they are shared
with popular individuals
or if the
shared content gains
good interest.
Social networks
are good education
tools which can
be utilized and
is not using
to its maximum
level. It can make
the teaching learning
process more effective,
enthusiastic , and
inspirational also interesting.
Problems about confidentiality, self
expression and ability
to receive information
and sharing it
and the misuse
of information are
some demerits.
REFERENCES
Ø
The Role Of Social
Networking In Schools
Dr. Muraleedharan
Education & Technology (2007)
P.N. Publications , Kerala
Ø en.wikipedia.org/internet/wiki.com
Ø http://
networking.com
Ø blogs.usyd.edu.au/stl
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