REDES SOCIALES EN LA EDUCACIÓN

Las redes tecnológicas de comunicación se han convertido en una herramienta que permite el aprendizaje colaborativo e involucra espacios de intercambio de información que fomentan la cooperación. Una de las herramientas más representativas de la Web 2.0, por ejemplo, las redes sociales, no deben ser obviadas para su estudio, ya que su arraigo y fascinación en los alumnos son una posibilidad didáctica enorme; su uso en las universidades de España y de América Latina, en particular en México, es cada vez más notorio. En el Centro Universitario de los Altos de la Universidad de Guadalajara se realizó un estudio con 414 alumnos de las 14 carreras que se ofrecen en esta institución, con el propósito de conocer el uso de las redes sociales como estrategia de aprendizaje. Destacó que 71 por ciento de los encuestados señalaron que las usan para actividades escolares; 45 por ciento, para estudiar; y 42 por ciento para jugar, lo cual muestra la importancia y fuerza que las redes sociales están tomando en el proceso educativo. 

Fuente: http://udgvirtual.udg.mx/apertura/index.php/apertura/article/view/198/213

Please use this section to briefly describe what motivated you to use this mobile app in your teaching and your students' learning. For example, you may want to discuss a particular learning problem that your students face, or difficulty in teaching a particular concept that is hard for students to visualize.

Describe why the mobile features of this online resource are important for students learning. Is it very important to bring the learning resource out of the classroom into the students' environment where students can align their learning with the environment in which they are living? Is the flexibility of using the resource at the students' convenience key? Are the different ways students can use the touch screen and interact with the learning resource more engaging for students learning?

Be sure this section reflects your experiences and your voice. This is a first person story.

Add some information about the discipline, type of course, and types of learners for which the resource was designed. If there is some prerequisite knowledge and/or skills that the teacher and students should have before teaching and learning with this mobile app, please describe that information here. For example, it might be important that the students are competent users of the mobile devices (tablets, smart phones, etc.) before they can make the most of the mobile app.

It's important to our readers that they know enough about your situation so they can adapt the resources to their situation. This kind of background information is necessary for users to make this kind of judgement call.

Please provide your assessment of the following aspects of the Learning App so teachers, parents, and students can have greater confidence that the learning experience with the app will respect the rights of students.

Here are some questions that might help you consider the different aspects of the Learning App that might be useful to describe.

1. Does the app meet section 508 accessibility requirements so students with disabilities can have an equally effective learning experience?
2. Does the use of the app adhere to standard Institutional Human Subjects Review Requirements?
3. Does the use of the app meet federal, state, and local mandates/laws/ and or guidelines?
4. Does the use of the app respect the privacy of others?
5. Does the use of the app meet "PG rating standards"?
   

Describe how you use the resource with your students. If it is a part of a larger assignment, describe the assignment and other resources that are necessary. It is important to explain how the learning app aligns with the curriculum goals of your course.

In your description, you should include a description of:

• The student learning outcome(s) to be achieved by completing the learning activities
• The prerequisite knowledge and skills students need to have before starting the learning activity
• The step-by-step instructions for completing the learning activity
• The assessment rubric for evaluating the quality of the students' learning products.

DON'T FORGET THAT YOU CAN CREATE YOUR LEARNING ACTIVITY IN WORD OR PPT AND UPLOAD THE DOCUMENT ON YOUR MERLOT CONTENT BUILDER WEBSITE IN THE EDIT FILES/LINKS SECTION.

Using mobile apps in a wide variety of environments can lead to some "challenges" in students reliably having a good learning experience. Make sure you describe the instructions you give your students about using the mobile app so they have a first-rate learning experience.

To ensure others' ability to learn from your experience, details are important. While in general, your advice should be short (and pithy) don't skimp on details that others might learn from. Here are some additional questions that might be helpful to answer.

1. Can the Learning App Be Used To Measure Student Learning Outcomes?
2. Can The Teacher Monitor Progress Of Their Students Using the App?

What advice do you have for others who might want to use this learning resource? You can include advice about general pedagogical strategies and/or specific teaching tactics. What did you learn about using it? What challenges did you confront when using it and how did you overcome them? What did you like about using it?

This section is particularly important to those who might want to try using this mobile app - Does the app meet exemplary practices of instructional design?

Provide your reflections and advice about the special considerations and pedagogical strategies that you'd like to share about teaching with the mobile app.

1. Can the mobile app be used on multiple types of mobile devices and platforms? Provide your experiences of using the learning app on iPads, iPhone, Androids, Netbooks, and other mobile devices you've encountered.
2. Can the mobile app be modified to meet custom learning and teaching needs of students and faculty?
3. Can the mobile app be used without being connected to the internet?

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Describe what your students say or how they responded to using the mobile app. Their reactions can include responses to the subject matter as well as the mobility of the learning. Feel free to include student quotes. The key is to try and capture the students' voices.

You can have your students write comments about their learning with the mobile app in MERLOT. Students need to become members of MERLOT (it's free and easy) and then they can add their own reflections. You can add the link to the students' comments about the mobile app here. Just click on the "Edit Files/Links" button below.

Please describe the various effects on your teaching and your students learning that resulted from the use of the mobile app.  Did your use of the mobile app solve the problem that motivated you to use the resource? How has use of the mobile app affected student learning and/or your teaching? Did you experience any unintended results? What were they? If you have some formal assessment of the impacts of use, please provide them.  If you have examples, case studies, or other samples of students' work that reflect the impact, please provide them.

Share your analysis, formal or informal, of the impact of the mobility on teaching and learning.

There are (at least) two ways to catalog this pedagogical analysis within MERLOT

1. You can contribute this teaching resource as a material in the MERLOT collection as an individual learning resource. You can catalog it within the relevant discipline areas and in the Mobile Computing category (which is under the main Academic Support Services category).
2. You can add this resource as a "Learning Exercise" associated with the mobile app (which needs to already be cataloged in MERLOT).

Either way or both ways are fine. The key is to do it. It only takes a few minutes.

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