The role of social networks in education Part 1

This work’s aim would be to review social networks’ part in academic method. The real history of the introduction of social media like a technical and cultural trend, the advantages of utilizing social media in training. Especially interest is compensated in the viewpoint of low towards the faculties of internet sites official and everyday understanding.

The advantages of interpersonal networking, keywords networking, Informatization of training, low official and everyday understanding.

Century is seen as a the development of the culture, the important thing aspects of that are understanding, imagination, encounter. Several economists dispute that the society’s development is increasingly more essential for submission, manufacturing, our society and trade of understanding. Data is considered by businesses like a next element of manufacturing. Presently, trade and the manufacturing of understanding are fundamental components influencing, in to produce academic surroundings, and also particular.

The way of distribution and manufacturing of understanding also alter somewhat. Because historic times move and the development of knowledge-based on cooperation between people. Nevertheless, using Internet’s prevalent utilization and due to information’s large amount, the road of understanding significantly transformed. Within the second half of 90ies of century there is a, as Levi, contended that the fresh supply of combined intellect and certainly will. Has happened and revolutionary technical change: the Web is becoming what several phone Internet 2.0. We shall stress the primary function of Internet 2.0 without starting the evaluation of the phrase: customers aren’t any longer inactive customers but become info suppliers that are productive. In Net 2.0, fresh types of indication and development of info – a system neighborhood.

The widespread use of social networking in daily life and education due to changes in technology and in social and economic spheres.

The technological trajectory of occurrences of artifacts of the social networking sites associated with the creation and development of computer networks, originally conceived as a way of sharing scarce resources of computers located in the same physical space with researchers in other locations using remote access. After some time, this technology has become a convenient method of communication between geographically separated. In the 1970ies and 1980-ies was created additional networks and new software, technological innovations which made the network more convenient tools to support human communication. In the 1990-ies technical innovation of the Internet and graphical browsers allow a wide dissemination of electronic communications for hundreds of millions of people around the world.

Until the end of the twentieth century the creation of the web traffic was largely monopolized by a few major sites (the main portals of several media, large companies and major universities). But the creation in the first decade of the current century the phenomenon of Web 2.0 has led to the emergence of alternative sources of knowledge.

One of these alternative sources is Wikipedia, with its 13.7 million notifications (August 2009). Currently, Wikipedia may be viewed young people not as alternative but as the primary source of knowledge. It is important to emphasize that the product is entirely non-profit, and that the encyclopedia tries to ensure neutrality in the coverage of the AI that position. Many of the materials written by several participants, so it makes sense to introduce Wikipedia as a product of the activities of the various teams, each of which was edited a few articles related to relevant interests.

Another important trend in the Internet today are blogs. On the technical side, is nothing more than a website, this technology exists since the nineties of the XX century. However, the authors have a number of practical skills, the most important of which is the massive use of hyperlinks (particularly to other blogs). These relationships between blogs allow you to build your own world, which is called the “blogosphere”. Some researchers, such as Gilmore (Gillmor), argue that such a mechanism creates a new path of journalism where citizens write. The emergence of microblogging, where the message size is limited to a fixed number of characters (e.g. Twitter), strengthened the role of blogs in the process of informing. It is also possible to assume that the blogosphere various bands, able to edit a specific cluster of blogs.

In addition, social software Web 2.0 allows you to share online resources such as bookmarks (Delicious), scientific publications (CiteULike), photos (Flickr), music (Last.fm) or videos (YouTube). All of these applications same approach: each user draws stakeholders to the resource based on the description, tags, etc. Since these resources should be relevant in one degree or another (because someone took the time to post content), then these programs are a powerful tool for access to knowledge. Tags and keywords can attract actors to a particular resource.

Easy to create and distribute content on the Internet through Web 2.0 caused a rapid growth of social networks and blogs.

Social trajectory of development of ecommunities originated in the 70ies of the last century. At this time, with the help of a program ARPAnet employees of various companies began to use email to share results, discuss plans and to organize meetings. Then users of the ARPAnet began to use email for purposes not related to work, for example, to exchange opinions about the Chinese restaurants, favorite books, new movies. This scientific community has established as a technology (network and communication tools) and new forms of social organizations (voluntary electronic groups). They appropriated the technology that was created for utilitarian purposes to create self-organizing voluntary forums discuss common interests. In 1980, the ARPAnet created a community multiplayer VR game “Dungeons and Dragons”.

By 1994, electronic communication among different groups of users have taken for granted, a voluntary organization of electronic communities has become a traditional legal form in universities and some. Multiplayer games are also becoming popular on College campuses.

Further development of social networking sites is associated with changes in the socio-economic sphere of modern society. Thus, Castells (Castells) argues that this new era of social relations in online communities has arisen not so much because of the development of the Internet, but because of globalization and new technological paradigms in scientific research, increase the global influence of transnational organizations (e.g. UN), and a new environmental. Together, these forces have influenced the way humanity lives, works, and learns. Moreover, they changed the economy to what is now called the New economy – “economy of knowledge”. The ability to communicate and to cooperate effectively is vital for companies, organizations, communities, and physical.

An example of such a shift towards the importance of networks is the dynamics of change in American jobs. As a result of globalization and shifts in the economy workers have less chances to stay at one job throughout their life, whereas less than 30 years ago, most people worked in one place for most of his life. Less stability in the labor market, workers are usually increasingly rely on personal networks, scattered across time and context. Personal social networks (such as Facebook and LinkedIn), email, blogs and cell phones have allowed people to stay connected with personal contacts longer and strengthen the increasingly important role of personal social networks.

According to Wong and Wong, Americans born after 1980, are able to create social networks. This is due to the characteristics of another generation: career change and job change. Many young professionals can quickly jump to a new job if they are not satisfied with the working conditions. The more young professionals move from one job to another, the more important the role played by personal networks, reputation, access to new information, which open up new possibilities.