Uses of Media and SNS in a

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Ange Rolyne

Social Media vs. Social Network

Social Media are tools for sharing and discussing information.  Social Networking is the use of communities of interest to connect to others.  You can use Social Media to facilitate Social Networking.  Or, your can network by leveraging Social Media.

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Social networks are often seen as a barrier between students and academic success, as their use disrupts classes by monopolizing the attention of students. Some teachers, however, decided to reverse the trend by considering social networks as an opportunity for learning.

They appear to be interesting structures for building learning communities.

The student must be able to take advantage of social networks by using social media as part of his studies and in its professional or personal relations.

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Using gaming or Digital games in educational settings opens the doors for new possibilities in teaching and learning. One website on it http://educationarcade.org/

Communities of practice can be created to manage a common project of communication for which the relevance and management of information sharing tools could provide a bonus point

Two important Ideas…

For simulations or games to be successful at whatever their goal, they need structural elements to give them shape as well as some limitations

With Facebook it's harder to make a strict separation between the private sphere and collaboration in the account "group" ... in this case it is preferable to use other social media such as developing its own social network with

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Sources

http://educationarcade.org/