This document discusses how social media can enable education by overcoming traditional barriers. It outlines how social media allows education to eliminate distance barriers by connecting students and teachers anywhere. Social media also helps overcome language barriers by allowing educational content to be shared in multiple languages. Finally, social media helps overcome time barriers by making educational content accessible anytime through platforms like blogs, Facebook pages, and online discussion forums. Examples from the author's own teaching experience illustrate how various social media tools can enhance education.

1. Social Media Enabled
Education
Updated version
Ravindra Dastikop
http://dastikop.blogspot.com
Email: ravindra.dastikop@gmail.com
Facebook : http://facebook.com/ravindra.dastikop

2. Purpose
● In this presentation, I am sharing my
experience in discovering and
deploying social media resources for
educational purposes.
● I teach a graduate course in engineering
college.

3. Agenda
● New Media, New Education
● Power and Potential of Social Media
● Why and How of using social media in
education
● Illustrations from my experiments with
web tools in teaching and learning
● Summary
●Q & A

4. Education
Fundamentals

5. Education – action
● Education is a process of transformation
○ Ignorant into informed (Liberal Education)
○ Unskilled into skilled (Technical Education)
○ Parochial to national to universal ( social science,
humanities)
The scope and our ability to transform depends
on means and tools available
Edusat
Learning styles –listener, readers, and many

6. Education as process
● Education is an organized process by which
society transmits knowledge, skills, values from
one generation to another.
● Our ability to transmit –
○ what can be transmitted and (drawing)
○ ways in which it can be transmitted determined by
media we have
● Social media (hypermedia) enables
transmission of all kinds of knowledge
unconstrained by traditional barriers of time,
distance, language.

7. Media is Education
Media determines the scope of
education

8. Media and Form of education
● Oral (prior to 14t Century)
○ Nature : Sound deaf can’t be educated
○ Skill- remember, recall, recite
○ Talent- Memory
● Printed
○ Nature : text, no picture
○ Skill – reading, writing, Arithmetic
○ Binding time
● Multimedia
○ Nature- Text, picture, animation
● Electronic media
● Mass media – TV – one way , IGNOU
● Social media
○ Nature- all above + hyperlinked , multi-lingual

9. We are here now …. Next step
● Historically the advent/evolution of media
has impacted the educational
phenomenon.
● Social media represents the latest in the
long list of media inventions- oral, print,
electronic, multimedia, mass media.

10. Social Media
The Phenomenon

11. Social Media
● Social media is interactive dialogue
enabled by a web and mobile-
technologies.
● Post, share comment cycle
○ Conversation
○ Teaching (
■ post a lesson/topic, (blog, FB)
■ share a resource,
■ Offer or seek comments
■ from my blogs

12. Power of Social Media

13. Eliminates Distance barrier
● Seeks inputs from related, experienced
people who are at distance
○ Project guidance -
● Seek support from alumni
○ Placement cell

14. The social media education
environment
● Add slide of edit, publish and comment
loops

15. Overcoming Traditional Barrier-
Language
● Prepare in one language – Teach in many
○ Home Blog

16. Overcoming Traditional Barrier
work-place
● Not constrained by campus resources
○ Prepare anywhere
○ Access any where – Example

17. Overcoming Time barrier
● Class Never sleeps
○ Course home page
■ Campus
■ Sharing learning resources
■ Uploading files – (show submission example
sheet)

18. Overcoming Distance Barrier
● Teachers can become Drona’s and
Students can become Ekalavyas

19. Social media supports all
educational objectives
● Distance learning
● Learning styles
○ Reading and writing
● UID objectives –
● Blooms Taxonomy

20. Result
New Realities

21. Web is a new Learning Habitat

22. Advantage Faculty
● A key feature of Social Media is its
round-the-clock accessibility, making it
easy for teachers to work on lesson plans
(add lesson plan here ( or any academic deliverable)
at their convenience
● Link rich data sources to lesson plans-
enrich education
○ Example joke (spell check)

23. Web is Learners Home
● Current generation of students are
○ practically digital natives –
■ easy to find them on web
○ Skilled at texting, browsing and searching
■ Need to build on them and take it further

24. Taking Mountain Mohammed

25. Proof is in the Pudding
Sharing my experiments

26. Web Tools for Universal
Interface Design
C-DAC Presentation

27. My Cloud computing Course

28. Cloud Computing Projects

29. New Horizon

30. Social Media Supports Group
editing
Cloud Computing Wiki

31. Social Media supports Group
Learning
Google Groups

32. Social Media connects u to
needy
Ask Dastikop
Collected Questions

33. Social media helps u create
common resource
EMPIP Course