Week 18 – A4c: Searching for ‘social networking’

Posted on by Keith Aquilina

In this activity I have searched on social networking  focusing on low income students. This was done through Del.icio.us.

Observed limits of this social bookmarking tool. Ain’t a search engine better for such a search?

Links found;

http://jerz.setonhill.edu/weblog/permalink/educational-benefits-of-social/

‘few students in the study were actually aware of the academic and professional networking opportunities that the Web sites provide’

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080620133907.htm

Social networking may be educationally relevant. Also the authors in their research found that ”low-income students are in many ways just as technologically proficient as their counterparts’.

Through social networking, students are informally learning skills such as communicative, technological skills.

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Currently my professional role is that of Education Officer (Quality Assurance) within the Directorate for Quality & Standards in Education in the Ministry of Education, Malta. After eight years teaching Computing and ICT within a state secondary school, I moved to the Department of eLearning where my role focused on the organisation of national educational events of which the national eLearning awards and conference, Malta Robotics Olympiad and student competitions. In addition to the work within the Department of eLearning, as from 2011 I have taken the role of ICT coordinator within the Directorate for Lifelong Learning where for 5 years, I was involved in the development and organisation of ICT related courses within the directorate’s adult education centres and collaborating entities. In 2012, I completed my Masters studies in Online and Distance Education from the Open University. This blog started off as an online reflective diary for my studies in the Masters in Online and Distance Education with the Open Univeristy. As may be easily deduced, my main interest is in technology, learning and anything in between. Linkedin; mt.linkedin.com/in/keithaquilina/