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As we continue our study of media and how it is used to educate, we turn our attention to Facebook. Facebook was founded by a student at Harvard University and then spread to all Ivy League universities and, of course, everybody with more than 100 million users worldwide.

First, it is used as a tool to help students, faculty and staff to meet other people on campus. Now used to do the same thing on the Internet on campus. Users create a profile and post with friends, add and send messages to other creativity.

Teaching and Learning on Facebook

Even as a purely social, Facebook has the potential to teach students about appropriate citizenship in the virtual world. Similar to other social media applications, Facebook highlights the importance of content to simply consume. By encouraging students to build creative profiles, Facebook allows them to express themselves, communicate and develop their talents and experience.

Facebook has become popular among millions of college students to draw a line in the world to spend hours browsing profiles, meeting new people and explore relationships. This creates an opportunity for educators to better understand the elements of forcing social networks and integrate these elements into teaching and learning.

Facebook at school

Dr. Jen Golbeck Maryland iSchool uses Facebook in his classes to help students learn more about us. First create a group for all students to participate. She discovered that teachers have the opportunity to learn the names of students and can quickly obtain a better understanding of its main interests in general. She believes that this form of communication has helped students become more at ease in discussions with teachers.

More Bucknell University, Alf Siewers, assistant professor of English, also uses Facebook in the classroom. He uses Facebook for his course pages instead of black. He noted that students are more involved and content to be more intuitive.

Setting up a Facebook group for each course and use the new feature to send missions. It also uses the discussion boards that allow students to post reading responses and comments from other thoughts. Since the groups are created to be private, only those enrolled in the class can see what is published.

Facebook Disclaimers

As with any social networking site online, Facebook has its problems. Some education professionals view Facebook as a tool of isolationism. Can students really integrate into a real social life, especially when entering college, if the majority of their interactions are online, with very little personal interaction? In addition, the same argument as positive online gaming becomes more realistic, Second Life, where he left and where each new generation of video game console is available.

Another negative aspect is also ubiquitous in the field of social networking. Many children - and adults - who do not pay much attention to information published on the Internet. According to reports, this can lead to embarrassment or a category of work, climb the ladder of losing a job or a scholarship, and even lead to identity theft and victimization of minors. To avoid these pitfalls, adults must be responsible for their children and make sense to publish them.

I am sure many of you use Facebook to help educate or at school or work. How do you use Facebook? Are there successes or failures you'd like to share? We would like to hear from you.