Use Facebook as an educational tool : a bouquet of thoughts and ways

Introduction

No longer Facebook as a social equilibrium needs to be defined, as well as the use of his education, which has been constantly evolving, as a reminder has already been not in the Code of the education of a new development of this tool. Today to give you another bundle of ideas and methods that will enable you to use Facebook in education and benefit from it.

Why use Facebook in education?

To answer this question, we can't help but recall some of his strengths, namely:

– Being environment interaction is not confined to time or place.

– Simple and free and easy to use.

– Widespread and creates Telephone of any student. – Makes the students are actively involved and positive.

– Facing the different age groups of students.

– Facilitates and promotes communication and cooperation between students, teachers and parents...

How to use Facebook as an educational tool for?

These are some of the ways to take advantage of the advantages of facebook and employ them in making teaching and learning more effective and their students:

1 - Create a Facebook page

It is the first thing that may comes to mind when you use Facebook, the page related to the content of the study (a historical figure), then students search for related information and add them.

2 - Collaborative learning

Forms the Facebook opportunity and a tool suited teachers can invest in supporting collaborative learning, dividing students into groups, each of them on a page or a private group on Facebook, members of each group in coordination between them via the same communication network to accomplish the tasks they are assigned, whether in search, or provide answers or otherwise. Note that this method fits well with project-based learning.

3. take advantage of tool places (geographic locations) places 

The tool can be utilized in order to determine the location of certain countries or regions, and is a chance to make the learners deal with maps, such as places nearby and even neighboring states. It is a tool that can be accessed from here.

4. communicate and see the new

As a pioneer of the social networking sites, as well as a large yard for debate and dialogue and the music of multiple cultures languages and habits of different, provides facebook the enormous potential we -as teachers, students, and parents administrators...- take advantage of them and invest them in the improvement of teaching and learning, these are some of the ways, for example but not limited to, ensure the availability of stronger and better, such learning outcomes are better:

– The establishment of a special group or page related to what the study or the topic of the tutorial or class, or a certain stage, and then invite students to participate in order to exchange information and ideas, dissemination and exchange links to websites, pages, videos, pictures and everything related to the topic or article.

– After each class, the teacher can use Facebook and add explanations or feedback or reviews didn't have time lesson for implementation.

– Suspension of students on a photo or post or video not related to a certain degree, a property can be invested in the identification of representations of learners about educational content certain may be the teacher in the process of its preparation and editing.

– Facebook as a means for discussion and exchange of ideas either before class or after.

Facebook as a means to continue the relationship between alumni regiment certain to maintain communication and continue in self development and learning.

5 - ads

Can easily extremely to employ Facebook as a tool and a means to disseminate advertising for example:

– Invite students and others to attend the occasions, different teaching: lectures, meetings, configurations...

– Postpone the test.

– Request a duty or assigned task, the important points of the lesson.

6. take advantage of tool events Events

A feature provided by Facebook, the teacher can use it for entertainment, like a testing site or date to bring the specific duty or the time of completion of a task.

7 - learn foreign languages

Via Facebook becomes the students can join groups or admiration as relevant to learning languages, to have the opportunity to communicate with a native language to learn, not to mention take advantage of the educational content provided by these groups and pages. Added possibility to make use of Facebook applications for this  purpose such as the application of :

Learn English with Papora.

8. support the modern strategies in teaching

In addition to many of the other spices give Facebook an opportunity to diversify the teaching methods and the learning platform can be through the use of many strategies in modern teaching, as a solution to problems and the learning based on projects and brainstorming, learning, discovery and others, it is a means to deal with different types of media files and the tools and environments necessary for the teaching methods of modern.

9 - tool for brainstorming

Where the teacher of the students put forward their ideas and their information about subject or a particular project, in order to invest it later in class.

10 - follow up the developments and news

Where can teachers via Facebook to follow up with respect to their major and stay in touch with fellow professionals from all over the world.

11 - Facebook apps educational

The site provides a large number of educational games and applications that are recommended to employ it with the aim of granulation of the students in the study access to learn more fun.

12 - feedback

Longer feedback is of great importance for learners. They are required to install information correct, or corrected if wrong, Facebook tool very suitable for this, whether it's via comments or posts, or admiration, it stays on the communication (synchronous and asynchronous), which positively affects the students.

13. communicate with parents

Don't hide on one of the importance of communication between educators and parents, we have in the city and in not time that we touched on the importance of this, we highlighted the most important means and tools to assist in linking this communication, which Facebook is considered one of them, where they can be employed in:

– Watch videos, images, activities, trip details and products...

Requested to express an opinion.

– Send invitations to attendees.

14 - Facebook for engagement, assessment and exchange of information

Facebook the potential of the technology is enormous not to be a teacher to accuse in their investment through:

– Publish photos and video clips appropriate educational material and share with students and interested parties, to comment on them and discuss their content.

– Exchange of experiences and information with those interested from all over the world the topic of the tutorial.

– Publishing and sharing e-books, (page a new teaching on Facebook as a model ).

– Publishing and sharing sites and media useful to promote information to students and expand their horizons.

15 - motivate students and development of motivation towards learning

Facebook pages and its potential and his tools of force will inevitably raise the level of motivation among students, which is necessary to one effective to make more effort to interact and communicate, the thing that will have a positive outcome on learning.

16. recruitment timeline Timeline Facebook 

It is very suitable for the teaching of history, and these are some of the examples of the successful integration of this idea in education:

– The history of the Soviet Union

– The journey of Magellan

– Inventions in the twentieth century

17 - voting and Polls

May occur and mitigating the views of the students about a particular subject, requires a decision about it. In this case, consistent with the spirit of democracy that should prevail in their classrooms and increase communication, the teacher can use with filtering that lets them Facebook.

For sealing

The ways and thoughts above are not the only to use Facebook as an educational tool to ideas by the countless hard, where it remains the area of creativity is always open, especially in light of the technology that surrounds us on every side.

Sources

   edsanam.com/2015/01/04/facebook-review
almarefh.net/show_content_sub.php?CUV=428&SubModel=140&ID=2298
teachercast.net/2016/03/01/facebook-in-the-classroom
onlinecollege.org/2012/05/21/100-ways-you-should-be-using-facebook-in-your-classroom-update