Thoughtful implementation of social media together with well design use of different Social Media tools, to

support the formal learning environment.

Online

Twitter: JPernilla

PhD student:

What I would like to do:

Education II Inline

Social MediaHigher Education

Lurking, looking and trying to understand attitudes regarding the use of Social

Media in Higher education

OnGoing project:

pjose@kth.se

‣Social Media and Learning ?

E-learning

Picture: Lina Nilsson

Dep. Media & Design

University West

pernilla.josefsson@hv.se

Pernilla Josefsson

A networked self/society

Social Media in Numbers?

Social Media in Education

What’s U’r attitude!

TimeTable: 90 min

A critical perspective...What do we learn?

Media Habits

‣Social Media in Numbers

Source: Internetstatistik.se Nov 2011

Impact on the society

Consequences

Week ties and strong tiesImage: Pernilla Josefsson, Created with FriendsMap

‣A networked self/society?

“Through the computer, the heralds say, we will make education better, religion better, politics better, our minds better - best of all, ourselves better. This is, of course, nonsense, and only the young or the ignorant or the foolish could believe it.”

“True, it is o

nly a machine

but a

machine design

ed to manipula

te and

generate infor

mation. That i

s what

computers do,

and therefore

they

have an agenda

and an unmist

akable

message.”

Neil Postman, 1990

‣A critical perspective...

“We believe because there is no reason not to believe. No social, political, historical, metaphysical, logical or spiritual reason. We live in a world that, for the most part, makes no sense to us. Not even technical sense.” - Postman

Neil Postman, 1990

‣A critical perspective...

“The point is that, in a world without spiritual or intellectual order, nothing is unbelievable; nothing is predictable, and therefore, nothing comes as a particular surprise.” - Postman

Winners and losers?

‣Weak ties and strong ties

“If the former, social theories suggest that we may be moving to a world where people have greater access to ideas, information, and opportunists, due to the wider range of people with whom they are in contact, but also to a world where social support is weaker and people’s sense of responsibility for each other is diminished.”

“The network’s ability to connect us with more and

more people may be infinite, but our attention is

not.  Are these large numbers of weaker ties

replacing or supplementing stronger ties?   Are we

replacing stronger ties with a greater number of

weaker ties?” 

Judith Diath, 2004

‣“Shallow thinkers”

“It is clear that users are not reading online in the traditional sense; indeed there are signs that new forms of “reading” are emerging as users “power browse” horizontally through titles, contents pages and abstracts going for quick wins. It almost seems that they go online to avoid reading in the traditional sense.”

“Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip

along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski.”

Nicholas Carr, 2008

“We are not only what we read, we are how we read.”

We tend to become “mere decoders of information.”

Maryanne Wolf, 2007

Image: Perniilla Josefsson,Generated From my Fnetwork/O

‣A networked self/society?

Social Isolation?

Source: PewInstitute

Social Impact

Source: PewInstitute

Social Networks

Källa: www.pnas.org

Källa: svt.se/

Convergence Culture

“Information not only wants to be free, it also wants to be networked”

‣A networked self/society

Henry Jenkins

Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman

For discussion:

Back-channel ?

Privacy concerns?

What is your attitude towards Social Media in Education?

Supportive?

Integration?

How would an appropriate (?) use of Social Media in education look like?

‣Social Media in Education

Photo: Pernilla Josefsson

What is your attitude towards the use of Social networking services in a learning situation?

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Use ID: 137084

‣Social Media in Education

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‣Social Media in Education

What is your attitude towards using a teacher initiated Facebook Group in a formal learning situation?

Use ID: 955390

What is your attitude towards using a student initiated Facebook Group in a formal learning situation?

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Use ID: 551726

‣Social Media in Education

Create one version to describe how you as a students relate to the use of social media in your education

Headline to be used: How my friends think I use Social Media in my educationHow my mum think I use ...How I think I use..How society think I use..How I really use...

To do:

‣A studnet approach to Social Media

45 min to work on this task