Social networking in education - some statistics

CREATING & CONNECTING//Research and Guidelines on Online Social — and Educational — Networking

NATIONAL

SCHOOL

BOARDS ASSOCIATION

Where to find it: http://www.nsba.org/site/docs/41400/41340.pdf

Nine- to 17-year-olds report spending almost as much time using social networking services and Web sites as they spend watching television. Among teens, that amounts to about 9 hours a week on social networking activities, compared to about 10 hours a week watching TV. Students are hardly passive couch potatoes online. Beyond basic communications, many students engage in highly creative activities on social networking sites — and a sizeable proportion of them are adventurous nonconformists who set the pace for their peers.

 96% of those with online access have engaged in ‘some form’ of social networking.

 

 

So, can we afford NOT to be involved. If we are going to be involved, how do we regulate and use social networking in a positive way, educationally?

 

Students and parents report fewer recent or current problems, such as cyberstalking, cyberbullying and unwelcome personal encounters, than school fears and policies seem to imply.

http://www.nsba.org/site/docs/41400/41340.pdf

 

What can social networking be used for? 

• Professional development and networking
• Use with students to develop working groups, innovation groups, study groups.
• Creating innovative communication pathways for workplace based students.
• Ways of identifying innovation in new ways.

What are students (US), doing with social networking?





Some useful sites

• Facebook
• Ning
• Delicious
• Digg
• Flickr

 

Comments

[Alex Miller]

I found this really interesting as well. A great doc. Have you seen the McGrindle research? More beautiful brochures with good info for us...
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[harriet]

Hi Alex, thanks for the links - also had a look at your work re: You Tube and blocking - I have also had some progress, and have a much clearer idea of the main blocks. I'm about to post, and really appreciate your comments links so far :)

[Thiago Lopes]

I was reading your post about how web 2.0 is not ruining our culture.
For starters, i think that our current definition of knowledge is still very much based on the french illuminist period, something made by an aristocracy and aimed towards themselves, therefore the judging of wich sort of knowledge is valid and wich is not is based solely on burgeouis standards. I think we have never been closer to a trully social and democratic revolution, one made by real people, a revolution of shared knowledge and information, wich may result in a much more respectful society for all of us.

[harriet]

HI Thiago - I agree with you, however, I'm also not so sure that this is new - but rather a return to a more commonsense and instinctive approach to knowledge creation. I think human beings were born to collaborate, and I believe with our improved networking qualities adn new ways of engaging - it is this that will be revolutionary - thanks for your comments.

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