2. Contents
• Introductory Group Work
• Cases, Findings and Recommendations
– Definition of Social Media
– M-Learning Examples
– The Most Recent Social Media Websites for Educational Uses
– Educational Smartphone Applications
– Psychoeducation and Clinical Uses
– Social Skills Training in Online Games
– Cyberbullying
– Future Use of Online Games for Education
• Relevant Educational Theories and Models
• Extra: Video Discussion
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3. Introductory Group Work
• Group work (5 students in each group)
• Do you know any educational use of
Facebook, mobile phones and online games?
Please share as a case study. If you don’t know
any, please brainstorm about how these three
can be used for educational purposes.
• Please list on a piece of paper. This will be
collected and discussed by the professor.
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5. Definition of Social Media
• “Any online media that are designed and used
for social purposes”. (Gezgin, in press).
• Social media “provides a mechanism for the
audience to connect, communicate, and
interact with each other and their mutual
friends through instant messaging or social
networking sites” (Correa, Hinsley, & Gil de
Zúñiga, pp. 247-248).
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6. M-Learning Examples
• Mobile Lecture Interaction (Cruz e Costa, Ojala & Korhonen, 2008).
• English vocabulary learning among non-native speakers (Cavus &
Ibrahim, 2009; Hsu & Lee, 2011; Thornton & Houser, 2005).
• A project of educational mobile game development (the mobile
Game-Based Learning project, mGBL) (Mitchell, Cisic & Maxl, 2007).
• Educational uses of smartphones and iphones: Herrington,
Herrington, Mantei, Olney & Ferry (2009). (Various applications
presented and discussed)
• Empowerment of illiterate and semi-literate users:
Balasubramanian, Thamizoli, Umar & Kanwar (2010)
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7. The Most Recent Social Media
Websites for Educational Uses
• Edmodo: Social networks for education
• EverFi: Life-skills education
• Desmos: Interactive educational software
• GoodSemester: Open online course platform
• iversity: Online course and research organizer
• MindSnacks: Language learning
• MyEdu: Personalized degree planning
• ScholarPRO: Scholarship matching service
• Piazza:Q & A service for students
• (The Chronicle of Higher Education, 2012).
• http://chronicle.com/article/Students-Endlessly-E-Mail/131390/
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8. Educational Smartphone Applications
• Quizzes
• Language games
• Dictionaries
• Star Chart, Mobile Observatory etc.
• Google Maps, Navigator etc.
• Reading and writing aids for kids
• Driving tests
• Math applications
• Cognitive Diary
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9. Psychoeducation and Clinical Uses
• Accessible by a wider population,
• A better link between therapy setting and everyday
life,
• Accessible everywhere and all the time (Preziosa et
al., 2009).
• Can be personalized to meet specific needs of
patients,
• Cost-effective compared to other sorts of
interventions (Fjeldsoe, Marshall & Miller, 2009).
• Used for cases of bulimia, depression, and smoking
cessation (Preziosa et al., 2009).
•
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10. Psychoeducation and Clinical Uses
• Especially useful for follow-up and monitoring of the
patient (Preziosa et al., 2009).
• Preziosa et al. (2009) : Exam anxiety and stress
management.
• Rizvi, Dimeff, Skutch, Carroll, & Linehan (2011): Borderline
personality disorder and co-morbid substance use disorder
by a smartphone application (DBT Coach (Dialectical
Behavior Therapy)).
• Use of mobile narratives (narrated videos) with relaxing
contents: Reduces anxiety and boost relaxation among
commuters (Grassi, Gaggioli, & Riva, 2009).
• Not considered to be substitutes to traditional therapy
sessions, but as complements to them (Rizvi et al., 2011).
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11. Social Skills Training in Online Games
• MMORPG players play the game mostly for social reasons
(social interaction, grouping features etc.). This challenges
the idea that these games are socially isolating
(Griffiths, Davies & Chappell, 2004).
• Griffiths, Davies & Chappell (2004): Playing MMORPG with
real life friends is common.
• Some of the challenges in online games can’t be handled
alone and the roles are mostly interdependent with each
class of gamers contributing their skills for the common
goal . This fact by itself promotes social coordination which
would be expected to improve social skills of the gamers
(Ducheneaut & Moore, 2005).
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12. Cyberbullying
• 4 categories of cyberbullying:
• By text message,
• By e-mail,
• By phone call and
• By picture/video clip (Slonge & Smith, 2008).
• 3 categories more: Chat rooms, instant messaging and
websites (Smith, Mahdavi, Carvalho, Fisher, Russell, &
Tippett, 2008).
• More threatening than traditional bullying, as it can occur
anywhere, as long as the victim is online (Internet) or on
the line (mobile phone) (Kowalski & Limber, 2007; Slonge &
Smith, 2008).
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13. Future Use of Online Games
for Education
• Second Life
• Ducheneaut & Moore (2005): MMORPGs can be
easily converted to educational tools, as non-
combat professions such as architect, doctor,
mayor etc. are getting more common in
MMORPGs. These professions can be linked to
class assignments.
• Studies on educational uses of digital games in
general and MMORPGs in particular: Charsky
(2010), Paraskeva, Mysirlaki & Papagianni (2010)
and Yu (2009).
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14. Food For Thought
• What may be the psychological implications of
educational uses of Facebook, mobile phones
and online games?
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15. Relevant Educational Theories and
Models
• M-learning, M-generation, M-development
• Affordability, popularity, functionality, context
sensitivity and social interactivity (Hsu & Lee, 2011).
• Implicit/Informal learning
• Life-long learning
• Ubiquitous learning
• Mobiles and illiteracy
• Horizontal learning (peer learning)
• Authentic learning: The learning environment should
be as similar as possible to the context where
knowledge will be used
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16. Extra: Video Discussion
• Thoughts on the State of Mobile Learning
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQgCXEoTap4
• Why Mobile Learning? (Clinical & Educational
Uses) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dECs3SRh8Xo
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