Paper no - 15 Mass Communication and Mass Studies: An Introduction

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Prepared by: Megha Trivedi

Roll No: 17

Paper – 15 Mass Communication and Media Studies: An Introduction

M.A: Sem – 4

Enrollment No: 2069108420170030

Batch: 2016 – 18

Email: meghatrivedi666@gmail.com

Submitted to: Smt. S. B. Gardi, Department of English MK Bhavnagar University

Topic : Social Media for Educational purpose

Ø What is Media?

Media are the collective communication outlets or tools used to store and deliver information or data (Wikipedia). It is one of the most powerful tools of communication in the developing countries, as well as in the developed countries. It can aid in promoting the right things at a right point of time, or can make use of any situation to create disturbance around the people or in the society. Media helps to provide a strong message to the world about what is right or wrong. Media is present all around us.

Ø What is Social Media?

                          
                          
Social Media are technologies that facilitate the new creation and sharing new thoughts, ideas, information, career interests and other forms of expression via virtual communities and network. It can help to connectedness with real or online communities. It can link various countries, states, cities or people together for different purpose.

There are many social media are there, which are very beneficial for students to use in classroom for education purpose. Social media is an ingrained part of today’s society. If you want to bring the “real world” into the classroom, considered integrating social media into your lesson. In the age of Social media to use all the digital things in class for practical work is very necessary. We have digital citizenship also so it’s our responsibility to use all digital platforms for education purpose. There are various social media which we can use in day to day learning class also like Face book, Twitter, Google Classroom, Instagram, Gmail, Linked in, Slide share, You Tube, Blogger, What’s up, G+ etc. Let us discus all social media one by one that how it is good or beneficial to use in education filed. 

Face book :-

    What is Face book?

Face book is social utility that connects us with the people, brands and organization.

Face book as a tool for learning and teaching.

 It is most visited and used platform of all are communicate and connect with friends, who work, study, live around them. Face book’s mission is to make world more open and connected. Face book is a vital tool for teaching and learning 

in the 21^st century and making education more social. It can be a great tool for teachers for their professional development, providing a safe space for teacher to share their expertise and professional practice within and beyond the walls of the classroom. To use face book as a tool it require a huge potential for teaching and learning because the impact of the teachers and their professional practice is also highly significant.  It provide virtual learning environment. (Face book Guide for Educaters )

   

    1.    Join Face book group

   2.     Using Face book groups to share knowledge among students.

    3.       Face book page for group project work.

   4.     Using Face book to make friends networking with alumni.

   5.       FB page to inspire in life skill subjects.

   6.      Setup event on Face book.

   7.     Language students can learn different language through group.

   8.     Collaborate with and learn from other teacher also.

   9.     Write academic posts with photos and videos

     What’s up:-  

                                 

What’s up is another very useful and easy way to learning and teaching social medium. Through what’s up teacher and students can make a group in which they can share very current news, topic related video, G.K etc. Do some kind of project through this tool like project on speaking skill, that how students have fluency in speaking English language then make a group and through audio recorder option students can speak on any topic and then check. So this way some project work also can be done. Make some group only for education purpose and share the all information on it, so this way to share education become very easy to anywhere anytime.

    Google Classroom:-

                           

It is very unique classroom than the traditional classroom where teacher and students have to present on the same place while here teacher and students from different countries can connect easily and learn things from teacher. Students can also ask teacher if they have any queries in their mind and teacher also give the answers on this platform.

      Blogger:-

Blogger provide the big space to share our ideas, views any short or long creative or critical write up like poems, essays, movie  or book or play reviews and many other things. It is like digital diary. Through this media we can improve writing skill as well as their language, grammar, spelling can also improve well. Students can share their study materials and assignments on it so other students from various branches can read. So through blogging students can be aware about the writing style as well as plagiarism. So using this platform which can reach to the global public all over the world.

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    G-mail:-

Gmail is very primary need for all in the 21^st century because in any official work or educational purpose Gmail account is required for communication.

By this platform students can enhanced their learning process. Through this medium to share some online discussion. News, contemporary issues, articles become very easy.  For job, admission or other place it is needed.

 

    Google+:-

This is directly connected with Blogger, when anything we published it directly shared on G+. Through this students and teacher can create Google group and discuses and sharing can be possible on it.

    Slideshare:-

                            

It is for presentation. Students can make presentation on it on any topic and shared publicly. Which is very beneficial also because after publishing students can get the result also that how many viewers of their presentation and how many people downloaded their presentation. So it is the good way to sharing knowledge with each other and learns something new.

         You Tube:-

You Tube can help to enhance our horizon of knowledge. YouTube is an excellent option for flipped classrooms in that students can watch lectures and resources before entering the classroom. We have all probably shown a YouTube clip or two to illustrate a point in the classroom. Instead of watching material created by others, why not have students create their own material? Through You Tube students can watch various educational or graphical videos and learn a lot.  Students can create their on You Tube channel also and upload their own video which can be made on any topic of their study or other information. Students can upload their presentation videos also. Students will be more apt to do their very best in creating a video, and they will enjoy being able to express their creativity as they connect more deeply with course material.So it is the great journey “From down loaders to upholders”.

     Twitter:-

The best way to use Twitter for teaching is as a reminder to students that they need to complete an assignment for a particular due date or that they have an exam coming up soon so study this or that. Sometimes teachers even use it for inspiration by sending a famous quote. Very useful to know the news because now a day’s many political leaders or actors, sportsman twit time and again which is connected with contemporary issue. Twitter offers a quick way to post class announcements and reminders as well as real-time information on class field trips

 Instagram

                         

Students love Instagram for so many reasons but mainly for the photos and effects available to them. Teachers can create assignments that tap into the need to Instagram such as photo essays where students take photos, upload, and add captions or students can even create campaigns for certain organizations or just for a lesson. (Chesser)

 LinkedIn

                                         
While acting as a professional social forum for employers to connect with applicants or search for potential employees, LinkedIn is used for so much more than that. Having students post professional resumes there and then contacting them about the job market and the business world around them keeps them in touch with reality and the endless possibilities through a targeted education. (Chesser)

Ø Advantages of using social media in classroom:-

( 1 ) Communication:-

One study found social media makes more communication possible with classmates both in and out of the classroom. Communication increases between instructors and students through what’s up, FB and Twitter. It’s help to develop the communication skill also.

( 2 ) Active learning:-

      

  Through the use of social media active learning can be done well. For example – blogs. Blogs found that students are actively learning when they write blogs and that blogs support self-expression and self-reflection. During writing on FB post or Twitter at that time student’s writing skill become very active because during writing students have to follow some rules of social media like on Twitter some limited words provide to express their views. So at that time creativity also increase in writing style.

( 3 ) Useful to learn Second language:-

Face book and Twitter are very helpful for second language learner, because on that platform students write post in English language and during conversation also dialogue can be done in English. So it helps a lot to improve L2 specially for second language learner.

Works Cited

Chesser, Lisa. "25 Awesome Social Media Tools for Education."

"Face book Guide for Educaters ." n.d.

Wikipedia. 5 4 2018 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_(communication)>.