Using social media as an interactive tool for learning and teaching purposes

This study explores the fulfilment of teachers and students in utilizing social media as educational platforms at university of Baghdad, Iraq. It aims to investigate whether the actual process of knowledge attainment and communicative interactions is completed at the virtual atmosphere. The current study includes three facets of social media_ engagement, interpersonal teaching and learning, and school performance. Random selection of (180) digital users at some of academic institutions has participated in the study. The results reveal that recruiters require social media platforms to connect teachers and students virtually. They tend to utilize social media for enhancing teaching and learning route which contributes the development of campus community. Virtual platforms completes the actual process of academic attainment in a meaningful way despite the traditional sense of learning and teaching at the academic level. The results conducted maintain its validity and reliability by means of knowledge dynamics, intellectual capital, and educational expertise.The study recommends experiencing technological education for carrying out relevant tools and applications which activate academic communication and empower guidelines and practices of institutional settings.

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Approaches Using Social Media Platforms for Teaching English Literature Online

European Journal of Language and Literature ◽

10.26417/958njt47d ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 7 (2) ◽

pp. 34

Author(s):

Azadeh Mehrpouyan ◽

Elahesadat Zakeri

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Online Teaching ◽

Teaching And Learning ◽

English Literature ◽

Teaching English ◽

Learning And Teaching ◽

Face To Face ◽

Social Media Platforms ◽

Online Pedagogies ◽

The Right

In the modern era of globalization, language and literature learning and comparative literary competencies are inextricably intertwined. Online learning and teaching, and telecollaboration are a great benefit to literature students who do not have face-to-face intercultural opportunities with members of diverse languages, literature, and cultures. Even, online teaching and learning make academics borderless and remove walls. The present study explores principles and new strategies for teaching English literature online. This article addresses how to adopt literary lesson plans for different types of learners, set clear expectations with students, and build rapport and community with students in teaching literature online. This research discusses the right EdTech tools and curricula support and investigates the way to use social media platforms e.g. YouTube as supplementary sources in e-teaching and e-learning for literary content. The results show that online pedagogies can develop Literature educators and students' skills and promote their literary knowledge along with converting a Web-primarily based totally environment into a social network with social media platforms crossing teach, learn and lands, inaccessible areas, and those who have limited instructive supports and facilities for creating equal opportunities.

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Development of Puzzel Learning Media by Crossword Puzzel

INKUIRI: Jurnal Pendidikan IPA ◽

10.20961/inkuiri.v10i1.30024 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Prima Wahyu Titisari ◽

Febi Acitika Pratiwi

Keyword(s):

Junior High School ◽

Teaching And Learning ◽

Crossword Puzzle ◽

Capture Process ◽

Learning And Teaching ◽

Word Play ◽

Teachers And Students ◽

The Media ◽

Large Groups ◽

Crossword Puzzles

Abstract. Learning media is a teaching and learning process that tends to be interpreted as graphical, photographic, or electronic tools to capture, process, and reconstruct visual or verbal information. Crosswords are a kind of word play. The learning media developed to facilitate teachers and students in the process of learning and teaching at Junior High School grade VIII. The purpose of this study was to prodice puzzle learning media by crossword puzzle and feasible to be developed as rearning media on human eireulatory system material. Based on the results of the observations that have been carried out, the teacher only uses descourse and less varied learning which makes students bored in learning. The method used in this study is the research and development (R & D), by ADDIE method, the researcher produced a crossword puzzle and its feasibility will be tested. The results of the study after the media were tested on the validator of media experts and material experts got a very decent category. The results of the research from the science teacher, get a very feasible assessment to be developed. The results of research on peer review get a very feasible category to be tested. And the results obtained during the trial of students with trials of small groups, middle groups and large groups led to a very decent category. To we it can be concluded that, puzzle learning media by crossword puzzles is very feasible to develop.Keywords: Puzzle learning media, crossword puzzles

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A Study on Implication of Prototype Theory in English Vocabulary Teaching

Journal of Language Teaching and Research ◽

10.17507/jltr.0801.16 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

pp. 133

Author(s):

Hongmei Zhang

Keyword(s):

Teaching And Learning ◽

International Communication ◽

Current Situation ◽

Prototype Theory ◽

English Learning ◽

Learning And Teaching ◽

Cognitive Mechanism ◽

Teachers And Students

Nowadays, English plays an increasingly important role in international communication. Vocabulary plays the important role in the process of English learning and teaching. Although the significance of the vocabulary teaching and learning have been noticed by the teachers and students, the current situation of English vocabulary teaching and learning is not satisfactory in most Chinese schools. This paper applies the prototype theory and other related theories, which contains the three levels of categorization and two cognitive mechanism, to vocabulary teaching and learning. The paper aims at exploring the implications that prototype theory indicates in English vocabulary teaching and learning, finding out the crux of English vocabulary teaching and learning. Teachers need to consciously foster students’ metaphorical and metonymical awareness when teaching vocabulary.

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Royal Shakespeare Company‘s #dream40

Letras & Letras ◽

10.14393/ll63-v37n1-2021-12 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 37 (1) ◽

pp. 207-217

Author(s):

Clara Matheus Nogueira

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

William Shakespeare ◽

Social Networking ◽

English Language ◽

Daily Lives ◽

Royal Shakespeare Company ◽

Teachers And Students ◽

Social Media Platforms ◽

School Curricula

William Shakespeare is one of the greatest authors of the English language and is present in multiple school curricula. However, reading Shakespeare in classrooms can be a challenge for both teachers and students. In schools, adaptations from literature to social media platforms, such as #dream40, a production by the Royal Shakespeare Company, remain not fully explored. In this paper, this production is presented as a possible ally in the effort of bringing the English canon closer to the students’ reality, making the Bard more engaging and accessible, since this production uses mechanics that are part of most students’ daily lives on social networking platforms, such as the hashtag that appears in the title of this production; besides, #dream40 is closely aligned with our contemporary paradigm of worldview.

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New Paradigm of Learning and Teaching in a Networked Environment

Handbook of Research on Literacy in Technology at the K-12 Level ◽

10.4018/978-1-59140-494-1.ch001 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 1-20 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Yin Cheong Cheng

Keyword(s):

Teaching And Learning ◽

Independent Learning ◽

Ict Literacy ◽

New Paradigm ◽

Learning And Development ◽

Knowledge And Skills ◽

Learning And Teaching ◽

Opportunities For Learning ◽

Teachers And Students ◽

Self Learning

This chapter introduces a new paradigm of learning and teaching that aims to develop students’ contextualized multiple intelligence (CMI) and create unlimited opportunity for students’ lifelong independent learning through a triplization process including individualization, localization, and globalization in teaching and learning. In particular, the chapter illustrates how students’ self-learning can be motivated, sustained, and highly enhanced in an individually, locally, and globally networked human and ICT environment. Different from the traditional emphasis on delivery of knowledge and skills in planned curriculum, the new paradigm pursues the extensive application of ICT and enhancement of teachers and students’ ICT literacy in building up a networked environment for students’ individualized, localized, and globalized learning and CMI development. It is hoped that students equipped with the necessary ICT literacy can become borderless learners with unlimited opportunities for learning and development in a networked environment.

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The Scholarship of Teaching Engineering

Handbook of Research on Technoethics ◽

10.4018/978-1-60566-022-6.ch029 ◽

2009 ◽

pp. 439-453 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

A.K. Haghi

Keyword(s):

Teaching And Learning ◽

Engineering Students ◽

Technological Education ◽

Learning Centers ◽

Academic Challenges ◽

Learning And Teaching ◽

Pedagogical Training ◽

Teaching And Learning Centers

In this book chapter, the authors summarize their retrospections as an engineering educator for more than 20 years. Consideration is given to a number of educational developments to which the author has contributed during his career in academia and the contribution made to engineering and technological education. Increasing emphasis is being placed on establishing teaching and learning centers at the institutional level with the stated objective of improving the quality of teaching and education. The results of this study provide information for the revision of engineering curricular, the pedagogical training of engineering faculty and the preparation of engineering students for the academic challenges of higher education in the field. The book chapter provides an in-depth review of a range of critical factors liable to have a significant effect and impact on the sustainability of engineering as a discipline. Issues such as learning and teaching methodologies and the effect of E-development; and the importance of communications are discussed.

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Adapting Engineering Education to the New Century

Web-Based Engineering Education ◽

10.4018/978-1-61520-659-9.ch003 ◽

2010 ◽

pp. 30-41 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

A. K. Haghi ◽

B. Noroozi

Keyword(s):

Teaching And Learning ◽

Engineering Students ◽

Technological Education ◽

Learning Centers ◽

Academic Challenges ◽

Learning And Teaching ◽

Pedagogical Training ◽

Teaching And Learning Centers

In this book chapter, the authors summarize their retrospections as engineering educators for more than 20 years. Consideration is given to a number of educational developments to which the authors have contributed during their career in academia and the contribution made to engineering and technological education. Increasing emphasis is being placed on establishing teaching and learning centers at the institutional level with the stated objective of improving the quality of teaching and education. The results of this study provide information for the revision of engineering curricula, the pedagogical training of engineering faculty and the preparation of engineering students for the academic challenges of higher education in the field. The book chapter provides an in-depth review of a range of critical factors liable to have a significant effect and impact on the sustainability of engineering as a discipline. Issues such as learning and teaching methodologies and the effect of E-development; and the importance of communications are discussed.

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Investigating the Effects of Social Media on Higher Education with a Case Study

Journal of Information & Knowledge Management ◽

10.1142/s0219649220400237 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 19 (01) ◽

pp. 2040023 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Mamoun Masoud Abdulqader ◽

Yousof Zohair Almunsour

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Social Media ◽

Teaching And Learning ◽

Faculty Members ◽

The Other ◽

Media In Education ◽

Social Media Platforms ◽

Use Of Social Media ◽

Teaching Learning

This research aims to investigate the effects of social media use on higher education teaching and learning as well as the students’ academic performance. A total of 275 students and faculty members from the College of Computer Science and Information Technology at Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University took part in the study. The participants answered survey questions to analyse information on their use of social media in education and how that has affected their teaching, learning and grades. A majority of the participants reported that they used social media in training. However, they also stated that social media platforms were beneficial in academic matters. The number of participants who stated that the use of social media in learning helped improve their grades was 43%. The other 57% thought that social media had no impact on their grades or had an adverse effect or were undecided.

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The need for a transition to a distance learning format: research results

Theoretical and Practical Aspects of Management ◽

10.46486/0234-4505-2020-9-194-209 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 194-209

Author(s):

Marina V. Polevaya ◽

Elena V. Kamneva ◽

Sergey A. Polevoy ◽

Margarita M. Simonova ◽

Svetlana M. Buyanova ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Distance Learning ◽

Teaching And Learning ◽

Educational Institution ◽

Educational Institutions ◽

Teaching Staff ◽

Learning And Teaching ◽

Teacher Student ◽

Teachers And Students ◽

Training Format

Relevance. The article discusses the problems of the transition of universities to a distance learning format. The transfer of universities to a remote format due to the spread of the COVID-19 virus allowed students to continue to receive training, which varied significantly due to technologies, the choice of which was determined by the current capabilities of educational institutions. The article analyzes the result of a study of the attitude and assessment of teachers and students organizing and conducting training outside the educational institution with the use of distance technologies. The purpose of the study is to identify the features of teaching and learning in a distance format in higher education during the spread of a new coronavirus infection. The objectives of the study are to identify factors that have influenced the quality of the implementation of educational programs in full in the electronic information and educational environment. The results of the study. A serious influence of the distance learning format on the quality of the teacher-student interaction was revealed (it has significantly decreased), which is undoubtedly one of the factors that reduce studentsʼ motivation to learn. For many respondents, distance learning and teaching was the first experience of a distance learning format, and therefore the attitude towards it is rather complicated. A significant scatter in the format of the classes, their completeness and content within the framework of distance learning, the low proportion of the teaching staff prepared for its implementation, and the generally low level of technical, methodological and legal support show that the majority of Russian universities are not ready to introduce distance learning. The transition to an online training format caused the majority of respondents discomfort and negative emotional experiences.

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A Systematic Review of Social Media Integration to Teach Speaking

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su13169047 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (16) ◽

pp. 9047

Author(s):

Emily John ◽

Melor Md Yunus

Keyword(s):

Systematic Review ◽

Social Media ◽

Teaching And Learning ◽

English Language ◽

Selection Process ◽

Systematic Analysis ◽

Social Media Platforms ◽

Use Of Social Media ◽

Meta Analyses ◽

Speaking Skills

The ubiquitous nature of social media (SM) makes it a very essential tool to use in the world of education, especially with the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic which has led to a paradigm shift in the approaches used in the teaching and learning of English language skills. This review focuses on the use of social media as a medium of instruction to aid the acquisition of speaking skills, which many learners find extremely challenging and inhibiting. Thus, this systematic review investigates the integration of social media in the teaching and learning of speaking skills. To ensure the systematic analysis of the selected articles, Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic review and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) 2020 guidelines were utilized. A total of 36 peer-reviewed journal articles from the year 2016 to 2021 were accessed from two databases: ERIC and Google Scholar. Prior to the start of the review, an inclusion and exclusion criteria selection process was conducted to ensure the focus of the review. Overall, the articles reviewed presented the claim that the integration of social media is seen as a positive inclusion for the teaching of speaking skills using various social media applications. Findings reveal that there are improvements in speaking skills, as well as confidence to speak and a decline in speaking anxiety. Teachers and educators can now make use of the various social media platforms such as Telegram, Facebook, WhatsApp, and others to provide learners with more practice that is not only restricted to the classroom but has moved beyond it.

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