Final Project Status Week 15
In a previous post I discussed my final project and how I wanted to research Facebook, YouTube and blogging for it. As I research these tools I realize the social and educational implications they have and the potential they contain for using them in the classroom. I began the project by researching social networking sites such as Facebook. I have a Facebook account and I use it quite frequently to stay in touch with family, friends and colleagues. But I wanted to research it further to find out the ways it can be used for an educational purpose. We sometimes fail to recognize the potential of social networking sites . Young people are more likely to have learned their social networking skills from friends or classmates than from formal instruction. While researching Facebook, I have found the following…
* Most students are familiar with computers and applications. We can capitalize on their existing skills with technology for our teaching and their learning.
* Facebook has more than 110 million active users
* It is one of the most trafficked social networking sites
* It has 6 million active user groups
* It has over 24,000 applications (many which are educational apps)
* 95% of users use at least one application
