Social Networks In Higher Education
The integration of information and communication technologies (ICT) in education imposes new demands on educators, and in general on all sectors of society, which requires a process of adaptation and transformation, which is reflected in new uses. cultures that lead to innovation. Social networks are tools that allow us to maintain constant communication, providing instant access to information regardless of distance. This study uses the Descriptive method in a participatory action research in the classroom with 91 students during two academic semesters, each semester divided into two groups generating the strategy of sharing knowledge in a playful way of a professional academic program in an official Colombian university. The result suggests that social media should be incorporated into higher education as an institutional policy, not just as an episodic event.
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The social contacts ("social capital") that a person has are an important resource for the acquisition of human capital. Individuals are socialised through close contacts in the family and peer groups and can thus acquire a pro-educational attitude - provided that this orientation is part of the values of the reference persons.
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As social networks have become central to the daily functioning of much of society, and have replaced traditional interpersonal interaction: It is critical that "the academy" integrates the use of these networks into the education of students. Institutions of higher education must also heed the results of their own peer-reviewed research and acknowledge that replacing verbal and physically in-person interpersonal human interaction with texting and other digital communication has left Gen Z with significant deficits in interpersonal "connection" with other human beings. Young people are more "connected" than ever, and lonelier than ever. While we must engage with social netowrks, we must also educate the digital generation in true human interpersonal communication and assist them in connecting with each other on a deeper level. Human beings need to experience inflection of voice, facial expression, body position, etc.... Much of human communication cannot be accomplished via text. Far more indormation is communicated when two people are talking than when they are texting....and far more when two people are physically together talking, seeing each other's physical expressions as they react to statements, etc. Relying of digital communication and devices almost exclusively has left a generation feeling anxious and lonely. If we teach with social networks, we must be responsible enough to address the psychological and sociological consequences of these forms of communication.
The way communication in Social Networks is structured has some specific advantages in contrast to more traditional means of communication as interpersonal, chatting, or even epistolary. Most of the messages have certain metadata, like a timestamp, interface, ip address, device mac address, user agent, coordinates, and often such as the actual device parameters as battery level, signal strength or carrier. All of that allows to enrich the experience. With proper analytics tools we may collect data, then define our find out metrics that pertain to specific topics but also to individual users, their performance, reaction time, and interactions between other people and between them and components of user interface (like hoover time on a button, link or glyph) . Measurement process doesn't seem way too invasive to end users at the first glance, but for sure may pose as a highly accurate input into improvement plans, increasing the effectiveness of organization in e.g., building expertise, gathering knowledge or any other perimeter. Due to proliferation of federated social networks with open source code I see it may be important in the future to design such nodes or small servers, that will provide to a specific group of students or researchers a customized experience aimed at developing their skills and collaboration. But for that a root control of the backend and robust analytics must also be applied to the environment, as well as roles defined for the users.
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