FACEBOOK‘S ROLE IN STUDENTS` SOCIAL AND EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 96-113
Author(s):  
Vincentas Lamanauskas ◽  
Violeta Šlekienė ◽  
Loreta Ragulienė

Facebook, having more than a billion users and being acceptable in more than 70 languages, is changing the ways of communication and sharing information of hundreds of millions of people. Lithuanian users is not an exception. Rapidly changing Facebook, has become an actual scientific research object. Scientists universally are investigating Facebook’s influence on social life. However, Facebook is still quite a new phenomenon in science, and still uncertainty exists defining the most effective its research and usage methods and possibilities. In the last decade, a tendency has been observed, that Facebook is used not only for entertainment, leisure or communication, but more and more its educational functions and possibilities come to light. In 2016, a research was carried out (totally, 300 Lithuanian high school first to fourth course students participated in the research) about Lithuanian high school students’ use of social network Facebook (FB), seeking to reveal how and what functions of a social network FB Lithuanian high school students use, how they value it, what is their opinion about FB influence on a person and what are the possibilities of FB educational use. It has been stated, that most of the students, assuming, that FB is a good communication device, express a positive attitude in the aspect of the statements about possibilities to obtain interesting information about university in Facebook, to find useful sources for the studies, about academic group communication. This shows that they are important in students’ life, FB diversifies study methods, helps to obtain useful information for university studies. Though students spend a lot of time in Facebook, they assert that they are not dependent on using social network, and that this does not have a negative influence neither on their psyche nor the studies. Keywords: educational environment, Facebook, social networking websites, university studies.

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (01) ◽  
pp. 11-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdul - Basith

Social media is web-based application that allows users to communicate, collaborate, and share resources with other people. Both being easy to access and easy to use make social media become an effective way to communicate and exchange ideas. Students can use social media to keep up with their friends, to stay up-to-date with news and current events, to fill up spare time, to find entertaining content, and to share opinions. The use of social media becomes famous for the students nowadays. Thus, the popularity of the social media among students can be used as a tool in language teaching. One of the famous social media is Instagram. Instagram is a social network that enables its users to take pictures and videos, and share them publicly or privately on the application, as well as through a variety of other social network. Through Instagram the students can post their photos or videos that can be commented by viewers. By using Instagram, teachers are offered great opportunity to develop classroom activities creatively. This paper will give an overview of the use of Instagram in teaching writing recount text in senior high school students.


2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 78
Author(s):  
Abdul Mufti ◽  
Fitriana Destiawati ◽  
Tri Yani Akhirina

Based on the research in the first year high school students in Jakarta Google+ social networking technologies application is ready and accept the Google+ social networking technology but not to the use of a continuous basis. Therefore there is need for the development of the research is to use the model Unified Theory Of Acceptance And Use Of Technology (UTAUT). This study was conducted to evaluate the acceptance of the Google+ social network that has been done in the first phase of the study. Based on the results of the first phase of the research is still considered less acceptable social networking Google + as a learning medium high school students. The present study is expected to implement Google+ as a social network that can be used to accomplish more tasks. The method used for processing the data is to use the analysis technique of Structural Equation Model (SEM). The results of this study is the use of Google technology among high school students is strongly influenced by the condition of the supporting facilities for both girls and boys. If the environmental conditions and good supporting facilities, the interest of high school students to use technology Google+ will be even greater


Author(s):  
Masami Yoshida

We investigated the Social Network System (SNS) competencies of high school students in Japan. Student groups (from cities or regional areas) and the opinions of their teachers were compared. Twenty-five UNESCO criteria in three competency categories were selected. By two-way analysis of variance and paired-comparisons, we detected a significant difference in the opinions of students and teachers. Although the magnitude of the difference was small, by Dunnett’s multiple comparisons, the city and regional groups also differed from each other. Performance criteria items of risk awareness were valued the highest and most important in all groups; whereas technical skills and socio-cultural skills were reported as less proficient and less important by all groups. Classification of SNS-type was used, and the data of SNS sites with which the students were familiar and the mean values of related performance criteria items were applied to view the situation of students. By this approach, we confirmed that students are savvy in navigating socializing SNSs. Based on our findings, we propose important learning and societal-public activities relevant to SNSs.


2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 1926
Author(s):  
Uğur Doğan ◽  
Eyüp Çelik ◽  
Yahya Karakaş

This study was aimed at testing a model which applies structural equation modeling (SEM) to explain social networking sites (SNS) usage. Performing SEM with a sample of 500 high school students (40% male, 60% female), the model examined the relationships among shame, guilt and pride on SNS, such Facebook and Twitter. It was hypothesized that SNS usage was predicted directly by shame and indirectly by pride and guilt. The SEM showed that shame affected SNS usage directly and positively, while guilt and pride indirectly affected SNS via shame. The fit indices of SEM produced good fit values (χ2 = 0.11, df = 2, χ2/df = 0.055, p = 0.94532, RMSEA = 0.00, GFI = 1.00, AGFI = 1.00, NFI = 1.00, NNFI = 1.00, CFI = 1.00, IFI = 1.00, RMR = 0.039; SRMR = 0.0042). According to these results, high school students’ feelings of shame, guilt and pride are important predictors of SNS usage.


2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 68-82
Author(s):  
E.N. Gilemkhanova

The relevance of the study is due to the role that social ideas play in the regulation of behavior and the formation of a system of relations among subjects of the educational environment in conditions of special attention to the safety of the educational environment of the school, provoked by destructive precedents among young people (school shooting, near-football, bullying, anarchism, neo-Nazism, etc.). J. Abric’s “Central system, peripheral system” concept was the theoretical framework of this study of ZhK. Aprica. The research hypothesis was based on the idea that violations of the psychological safety of the educational environment are caused by the problem of correlating nuclear and peripheral social representations about safety among different participants in educational settings. We use the prototypical analysis of P. Verges to study social representations of safety. The study sample was 137 students of the 7th grade (72 male, 65 female), 416 students of the 8th grade (201 male, 215 female), 490 students of the 9th grade (201 male, 289 female), 154 students of the 10th grade (84 male, 70 female), 117 students of the 11th grade (50 male, 67 female) and 20 teachers (1 male, 19 female). The results of the study demonstrate that 1) according to social representations about safety, students and teachers have diametrically opposed views on the role of the teacher in ensuring a safe educational environment; 2) students, who highly assess the safety of the educational environment, have active external and internal protection social representations about safety; students who rate the safety of the educational environment, have social representations in the context of passive protection; 3) the analysis of three age categories shows a tendency of the social representations about safety from the norm (students in grades 7-8) through external protection (high school students) to the internal individual resources (high school students and teachers). The new research data obtained on the peculiarities of representations about the safety of students and teachers can become the basis for understanding the growing tension in the field of the safety of the educational environment and the frequent incidents of its violation.


2021 ◽  
Vol 44 ◽  
pp. 63-70

Extracurricular activities of the pupils are particular and specific educational work with students, organized not as a teaching part of school but it is organized on the principles of free choice of the pupils. The aim of the research was to analyze the curricula for primary and secondary schools (for biology as a school subject) and to develop instruments to evaluate the degree of representation of extracurricular activities with the biology curriculum in elementary and secondary schools in Olovo municipality. The students from the sixth to the ninth grade of Primary School "Hasan Kikić", Primary School "Olovo" and high school students of ''Musa Ćazim Ćatić'' High School who attended the subject of biology participated in this research. The research includes the survey methodology and total of 408 students were surveyed. Participation in extracurricular activities has led the student to expand knowledge, mostly in the field of zoology, about diseases (causes, treatment and prevention), ecology and environmental protection, to build a more positive relationship with society and the environment, all with the help of a well-trained teacher who accomplishes good communication with students, whose traits have been slipped during the survey.


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