What is the power of social media? People share their
experiences through social networks. We chat with friends online. We cannot
access facebook and youtube in China but Renren and Youku are created to
replace them. A new product needs social media to let people know it.
I am shocked by one scene that says ‘If Wikipedia were made
into a book, it would be 2.25 million pages long’. It is impossible to make Wikipedia into a book
but it can exist in our learning in another more convenient style. We can
search almost everything from Wikipedia. People prefer to read online than take
a heavy book now. We can see people in the public with an ipad in their hands.
Even some kids are crazy about computer games. I remembered that a school in
China also uses ipad instead of blackboard.
The Networked Students
How do 21th century students learn? They may not have a
textbook. I believe that this is true in the future. For example, we do not
have a textbook for this online course. A textbook is written by one or maybe
two or three writers, so we can only access opinions by the writers. That is not
enough. Students can search for more information that they need online. How?
Students can search the internet for specific topic and save
useful ones in their computer. At last students create their own knowledgebase
on that topic. Students will post their opinions on their blog. Anyone in the
world again can access that blog and comment. If I do this, it means I learn
from others and others learn from me. I know some of my undergraduate
classmates learn online courses from professors all around the world. We may
not have the opportunity to go to Stanford. But we can listen to some Stanford
courses. We may choose a major and show interest in other field. With those
online open courses, we can master a second major.
Hi Mengjiao, We have seen a same video about social media. I am agree with your idea about no textbook teaching. This method is more convenient for students to have lessons. Maybe it also can arouse students` interests and reduce their tension. And also I think this is a more environmental way.
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ReplyDeleteI like the design of your blog. And I agree with your opinion about the social media. Nowadays, We can find people use social medial everywhere. They use smart phones, IPAD, computers and other high technology tools to keep contact with each other. Social media is very important in our life.
I like your emphasis on the use of other sources aside from textbooks. We all tend to learn more when we have control the the learning.
ReplyDeleteIn future posts please try to weave the links into the text of the post. For example a sentence like: In the video The Networked Student I learned that ......
Through internet, we can access a lot of additional information besides those from books. The internet broaden our view and provides us a very good source of knowledge. As you said, we can get to the online class from some famous universities. It enables us not only learn from our own university, but also from those we are interested in. Also, we can choose other majors which we like other than the major we are learning now.
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