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Discover how social media can be used as a valuable tool in education. Learn about various platforms and tools available for teaching and engaging students. Explore FIDENIA, an educational social network designed specifically for teachers, students, and families.
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Have Fun and Learn Through Social Media IPS Maffeo Pantaleoni Frascati (ITALY) Filomena Garofalo
Media Didactics in Higher Education: Oriented Media Education Networks of new information and communication systems have become a vital part of the present day life. Becoming a part of the environment, they have an influence on the younger generation’s education and upbringing, seriously competing with schools and universities. When they become teaching materials in the classroom, media text taken from newspapers, radio, television, and the Internet become an essential part of the education system, storing, and sometimes enhancing the educational and training system and teaching qualities. That means that media texts become important sources of professional improvement. (Anna Onkovich)
Social media How we can use them ?
How to use Social Media ? Many tools are available on the market to teach, test, exchange experiences and do any other useful teaching activity The choice of the most appropriate tool depends on the didactic objectives to be obtained, on their simplicity of use and on the cost
Tools for educational use There are many specific tools specific for educational use Generally they include one or more features of the typical social media Sometimes there are versions of such tools that can be used even for free (with limitations)
FIDENIA www.fidenia.it
FIDENIA: a social learning Fidenia is a ”social learning" entirely dedicated to teaching to create virtual classes, share resources, create multimedia content, assign tests and dialogue in a "social" way among teachers, students and families
Virtual Classrooms can be created
What is FIDENIA FIDENIA is a web application (no software to install on the PC). Thereforeitworks on anyoperatingsystems (Windows, MAC Linux) The basicversion of FIDENIA (avalaible for a single teacher) is free of charge The premium version (avalaible for a school) hasfurtherfeatures
What is FIDENIA Fidenia is an "educational social network" designed specifically for teachers, students and families It combines the most advanced digital technologies with the new needs of the school, bringing together in a single portal advanced didactic functions with all the advantages of "social" communication
What can you done with FIDENIA The teacher creates the virtual classroom assigns homework and questionnaires to the students, shares documents, ebooks, creates events and school initiatives, communicates with the class, families and other teacher The student enrolls in the courses, dialogs with his teachers, participates in study groups, works on shared teaching materials, carries out questionnaires and submits online documents
Thereisnot a single way how to use Social Media to teach The market offers a large quantity of specific products for educational use The must appropriate product must be choosen by schools to reach the educational goal theywant