role of social media in education

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By

Muhammad Iqbal, PM, HRPA, ON

HR Professional and Social Media Strategist iqbalarfeen@gmail.com

Introduction to Social Media

Growth of Social Media

3-Phases of Educational Technology

Social Networking Tools

Benefits of Social Media

Useful Resources

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Presentation Sequence

Feedback

Message Channel

Receiver Sender

Communication Process

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Smile

• Journalists;

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• Reporters;

• Photographers;

What is a Media? – Print and Electronics

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Social Media is an interactive communication – where You can interact with the media

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A Social Network is a connection of Like-minded People around the World

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From Pigeon to twitter:

Letters to Emails

Cards to eCards

Social Media – Facebook, Twitter, Wiki

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Access to 50 Million Users - Benchmark

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38 years

13 years

4 years

3 years

less than a year

• Google Look-up 200 Million for info/DAY

• 100 Billion Clicks per DAY

• 55 Trillion LINKS

• 2 Billion Emails per SECOND

• 1 Million IM per SECOND

• Facebook – 355 Million Users

• Linked In – 50 Million Users

• Twitters – 50 Million Users

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Research Statistics – social media

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• Online out-performed Face-to-Face Learner

• Student spend:

5 hours/week on YouTube

31 hours/week on Internet

90% Online participation

10% Class participation

• Its time to Re-Think Teaching

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Research Statistics – US Education Dept.

• It is the really Teacher who brings technology to the class

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3 phases of educational technology

“Any teacher that can be replaced

by technology deserves to be”

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Tools for Social networking

Digg.com

StumbleUpon

Friend Feed

eAcademy

EmpireAvenue

Reddit

Skype

Wiki

Blogs

Facebook

LinkedIn Google +

Twitter

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• Bigger Social Platform

• User Generated Content

• Handy & Scalable

• Building Relationships

• Global Connecting

• Customer Services

• Gaining Goodwill 12

Benefits of Using Social Media

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• Make You Credible

• Increase Referrals

• New Relationships

• Outstanding Visibility

• Trust Building

• Perceived Expert

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Benefits of Using Social Media

• Be Honest and Transparent

• Write What You Know

• Professional Email; No Roman

• Disagree Professionally

• Be Responsive and Trustworthy

• Virtual Handshake – Ask Permission – Write a Personal Email – Its OK to decline or ignore

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Social Media – Best Practices

Largest Social Network

• 350,000,000 + Users

• 3rd Populous Country

Populous countries – Rank

– China – India – Facebook – USA – Indonesia – Brazil – Pakistan – Bangladesh

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Social Media Tool - Facebook

• Log In

Birthday Reminders

Chatting – one on one or groups

Games – lot available

Pictures – sharing and timelines

Network – for: Socializing Academic; or Job Search or Professional

name@gmail.com ……….

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Capitalize on Facebook

Personal Page

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Capitalize on Facebook

Privacy setting:

Public

Friends

Friends of Friends

Specific people

Only me

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Fair Use of Facebook

“We don’t have a choice on whether we DO Social Media. The Question is How Well We DO it”

Moving to web 3.0

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Listen

Collaborate

Participate

Become a Valuable Member of the

Community

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Time

Stay Hungry and Stay Foolish Steve Job

Today’s Message

Muhammad Iqbal HR Professional

& Social Media Strategist

/iqbalarfeen /iqbalarfeen /iqbalarfeen @iqbalarfeen

iqbalarfeen@gmail.com

Thanks – contact me…..