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I'm for it |
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Not necessarily social networking sites as we know them today (e.g. Myspace) but something similar,
yes. Education will definitely be completely online soon. |
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Yes, but not networking sites. More like schools online. The homework will become more difficult but
the involved spices should be able to handle it. |
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I hope it does, that'd be cool. I take internet courses, as well as lecture courses at my
university. I love the internet courses, I think they are harder than lecture, but much nicer. Than
again I really think college is like high school it's not hard at all. Anyway, I agree. |
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Unfortunately i do think so...or world is coming to more and more net working type. Sooner or later
we will be working at home and learning in our beds..etc.. |
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No because computers and internet are important but it can never replace schooling and teacher
student interaction. |
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It will be difficult for people who are not accustomed to social networking sites. |
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I do not think that the social networking will be the future of education systems. It should be
better to say or assume it as an addition to the traditional educational system, but should be
judged as a unique method or single driver of the educational system. It will not be a very wise
decision to terminate the conventional education system and depends upon the social educational
system completely. Getting isolated from the teachers and from the classmates, a student would not
be able to gather much education with the social education system like Internet and so on. Classroom
and the institutions are the places from where a child comes to the contact of so many people and
thus the child gets educated by the atmosphere easily. The bonding of friendship grows up from
there. Thus social networking should be better considered as a limited medium of education. |
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I think the social networking methods will be a favorable addition to the conventional teaching
methods. Terming the traditional talk and chalk teaching techniques as obsolete is not right. There
is a need to provide students with a formal environment that exudes the spirit of learning and only
schools can do that. Teachers can incorporate the new social platforms in their routine lectures to
keep things interesting and up-to-date.
An education system completely free of the formal teaching methods based on just social networking
may be the perfect recipe for a chaotic and selective learning. |
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I hope not. This can never replace traditional education methods.
It would disadvantage so many young people and alienate them from social contacts.
There is a place for some degree of social networking on the Internet but only to a small degree.
There's no way that people benefit more from isolation than classroom interaction. We learn from our
social interaction with other people - this is both academic and non- academic.
Classrooms and educational institutions are places were contacts are made and friendships forged.
Teachers need to be there, on hand, to allow students to talk to them and learn .
Social networking can allow everyone to be a teacher but how many bad or sub-standard teachers would
it create?
Social networking should be viewed as a limited resource to aid more traditional methods of face to
face learning. |
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No way. I think that social networking certainly is a new and exciting way of learning new thing,
but I do not think that it will become the sole method of education. It is true that many children
do use the Internet to learn new information, but that is only one way to learn. No matter how good
the Internet gets, or how advanced technology becomes, it will never replace that face to face
interaction that takes place between students and teacher in the traditional classroom. Computers
will never be able to nurture students in the same way a real live teacher can. Therefore, I do not
believe that social networking will take over completely. It will be included, but will never be
exclusive. |
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Social networking sites may play an increasingly important educational role, but they are not likely
to replace more traditional types of formal education. By the "chalk and talk" style, you are
probably referring to the old-fashioned method of having a teacher stand up in front of the class
and write lengthy notes on the blackboard, without offering students the opportunity to interact. I
think you are quite right, that this is not an effective form of teaching.
Nevertheless, as a university lecturer, I know that a structured curriculum is required in
first-year university courses and certainly in high schools as well. The key is to combine lectures
with interactive learning, by encouraging debate in the classroom, setting up a course website where
students can comment and exchange ideas on the lecture's content, as well as showing how to turn the
Internet into an effective educational tool.
"Talk and chalk" will probably always be around, even if it is transformed by new technology. The
best example of this is power point. Most university lecturers now present their notes as power
point presentations, but isn't this very similar to a good old fashioned blackboard, only without
the chalk? |
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18 Jan 2008 15:59
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