1. SOCIAL MEDIA AS A TOOL IN
EDUCATION
Reported by: Ma. Divina B. Nunez
2. What is Social Media?
Social media is the interaction among
people in which they create, share or
exchange information and ideas in
virtual communities and networks. Social
media can also be said to be a group
of Internet-based applications that build
on the ideological and technological
foundations of internet that allows the
creation and exchange of user
3. SOCIAL MEDDIA VS. SOCIAL
NETWORK
For Perryman, “social media and social
networking are new terms often used
interchangeably by the public and
members of industry” (2011). As he
describes it, social media is a noun,
and is the platform used for social
networking. Social media websites offer
products or services that allow users
to social network. Thus the action of
social networking results from individuals
using social media to allow people to
communicate with each other. (Perryman,
4. What are the Social Network Sites used in Education?
Facebook
Youtube
Quipper
Edmodo
5. It allows for both an asynchronous and synchronous, open
dialogue via a familiar and regularly accessed medium, and
supports the integration of multimodal content such as student-
created photographs and video and URLs to other texts, in a
platform that many students are already familiar with.
Further, it allows students to ask more minor questions that
they might not otherwise feel motivated to visit a professor in
person during office hours to ask.
It allows students to collect their thoughts and articulate them
in writing before committing to their expression.
Facebook can also aid students in self-expression and
encourage more frequent student-and-instructor and student-and-
student communication
6. YouTube is the most frequently used social media tool in the classroom.
Students can watch videos, answer questions, and discuss content. Additionally,
students can create videos to share with others.
YouTube also improved students’ digital skills and provided opportunity for peer
learning and problem solving.
Additionally, the students reported that the videos helped them recall information
and visualize real world applications of course concepts.
7. Quipper is an education technology company that provides e-Learning,
coaching, tutoring, and assessment services for K-12 in Japan, Indonesia,
the Philippines, and Mexico.
The company’s primary service is an online learning management system
(LMS), which is used in different ways in each country where it operates.
The LMS contains locally-developed content and is supplemented with
additional services for teachers, students, school administrators, and other
stakeholders in each country where it operates.
8. Edmodo is an educational technology company offering a communication,
collaboration, and coaching platform to K-12 schools and teachers.
The Edmodo network enables teachers to share content, distribute quizzes,
assignments, and manage communication with students, colleagues, and
parents. Edmodo is very teacher-centric in their design and philosophy:
students and parents can only join Edmodo if invited to do so by a teacher.
Teachers and students spend large amounts of time on the platform, both in
and out of the classroom. Edmodo is free to use, but it also offers premium
services.
11. The Department of Science and Technology
(DOST) launched the I-Salt project in
Alaminos, Pangasinan, the introduction of a
salt ionization technology for the town's salt
makers.
12. These technologies are the:
saturated brine feed reservoir
spin dryer, and
iodizing machine.
The I-Salt project is an iodized salt processing model and
design that uses three technologies.
13. Saturated brine feed reservoir is an evaporating setup, which has a
capacity of 300 liters per batch. This helps produce finer salt with
higher purity.
Spin dryer was designed to reduce the moisture of salt. This can
process up to 75 kilograms per batch of salt, even in humid and rainy
conditions.
The agency added that reducing salt moisture is in accordance with
the ASIN Law (Act of Salt Iodization Nationwide), which contributes to
the elimination of iodine deficiency disorders through a cost-
effective measure of salt iodization.
Salt will then be transferred to an iodizing machine, a portable
screw-type machine, which is operated continuously with 750 kg per
hour capacity.
15. Another DOST-attached agency, the DOST-
Philippine Council for Industry, Energy, and
Emerging Technology Research and
Development (PCIEERD), helped in the
development of these technologies.
16. The project was done by the Department of Science and
Technology- Industrial Technology Development
Institute (DOST-ITDI) and DOST- Philippine Council for
Industry, Energy, and Emerging Technology Research
and Development (PCIEERD), coinciding with the
Regional Science and Technology Week celebration in
Alaminos City, Pangasinan.
18. Many would say that science is something that normal people don’t
actively engage in. However, in reality, science is a crucial part of
our everyday lives. One of the most well-known promoters of
science, Carl Sagan, once said:
“Science is more than a body of knowledge. It’s a way of thinking; a
way of skeptically interrogating the universe.”
19. Shortage of classrooms and laboratories
With the implementation of the K-12 program, it is estimated the
classroom shortage in the country to be 113,995 as of 2017. By June
2017, Education Undersecretary Jesus Mateo announced that
50,000 of the needed 113,000 classrooms had already been
completed and are pending for use. The undersecretary stressed
the objective of the government to create more classrooms “to
meet lower class size, which leads to conducive learning.”
20. Aside from the obvious lack of classrooms, there is also a lack of science laboratories to
facilitate science learning and application of its concepts to students. In 2014, DepEd
reported a shortage of science laboratories in regions III, IV-A, X, XI, and XII, with an
average of only one in ten schools having its own laboratory. In the National Capital
Region, the ratio improved with three laboratories for every 10 schools; however, the
findings showed that the rest of the regions did not have any science laboratories. This
problem prompted researchers from Diliman and Los Banos of the University of the
Philippines to develop Versatile Instrumentation System for Science Education and
Research (VISSER). This instrumentation system includes hardware, software, sensors,
and experiment modules for various science subjects. The device’s hardware component
includes multi-channel plug and play analog and digital sensors that run on a
microcontroller. The microcontroller pools all the information and connects such
hardware to the device’s modules. The modules include experiments in biology, chemistry,
physics, and engineering. As of this writing, the lab is being pilot-tested by the UP National
Institute of Physics.
21. The aforementioned predicaments of Philippine education severely limit how most the
public schools can teach science to their students. The lack of classrooms limits the
conduciveness of lectures to students; public schools that lack classrooms oftentimes
compensate by holding classes at their multipurpose gymnasiums, with their makeshift
classrooms separated only by curtains. Students there can hear the chatter all over the
place, and end up listening not only to their teacher’s lecture, but also to the lecture from
the adjacent classroom. Textbooks and learning materials are also critical. If they are bland
and unengaging, how can one expect students to even flip through their pages with
interest? The lack of laboratories also damages the quality of education, limiting teachers
to lectures and reporting activities for students instead of lab experiments that show how
the concepts work in real life. Filipino students are bombarded with theories and
terminologies, which are not necessarily the things that make science exciting. Scientists
do not memorize and regurgitate information; they ask questions, predict outcomes, and
actually perform experiments.
22. With these limitations in science teaching, one cannot help but wonder how
our countrymen perceive science. The average Filipino who does not work in
a science-related industry has likely never related the concept to his or her
everyday life. The word ‘science’ itself seems distant and elusive, only being
applied to people who spend most of their days in the lab or in the classroom.
When you hear the word ‘science’, what comes to mind? Probably, it’s a bunch
of concepts from biology such as evolution, or the oft-repeated statement
that “the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell.” As far as chemistry
goes, you might remember mixtures, compounds, and elements. In terms of
physics, you would probably just imagine blackboard full of equations and
symbols, with Albert Einstein patiently and painstakingly trying to make you
understand them.
23. Scientists verify Einstein's theory of relativity
BERLIN -- A group of scientists have recently verified Einstein's theory of relativity by observing how a fast-moving star's light waves were
changed as it approached a supermassive black hole, according to the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.
Scientists at the European Southern Observatory measured that the orbital velocity of the star increased to more than 25 million kilometers per
hour as it was getting closer to the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way.
The star's wavelength stretched as it sought to escape the gravitational pull of the black hole, with its appearance turning from blue to red,
Odele Straub from the Paris Observatory told the media.
Such phenomena agree with the gravitational redshift in Einstein's general theory of relativity, which predicts that the extreme gravitation field of
a black hole would stretch a star's light waves to longer wavelengths and the star would become redder.
Observing the gravitational redshift in the solar system is seen as one of the classical tests of general relativity.
About 26 years ago, scientists at the observatory began monitoring the central area of the Milky Way, through its Very Large Telescope, to
observe the motion of stars near the black hole, which is four million times as large as the sun. (Xinhua)
24. E-sensor device measures cacao bean quality
instantly
LOS BAŇOS, Laguna -- A new electronic sensor device was developed by the Philippine Center for Postharvest Development and Mechanization (PHilMech), which could instantly measure quality of freshness of cacao beans.
The new technology project, funded by the Philippine Council for Agriculture, Aquatic and Natural Resources Research and Development (PCAARRD) of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST), is portable and easy
to use.
The cacao quality sensor and the software have been developed by the research team, led by Engr. Reynaldo P. Gregorio through the PCAARRD-funded project “Development of Sensor Devices for Cacao Quality
Measurement.”
According to PCAARD, by just placing a few drops of the bean’s watery mucilage into the sensor receptacle, one can already assess the freshness of harvested cacao bean by measuring its sugar content and alcohol content.
The sensor device can also detect if the bean is adulterated by assessing its water content and salinity.
The software also measures the results in a liquid crystal display similar to laptop monitors.
PCAARRD also assessed that the new technology proves useful to suppliers, buyers of freshly harvested cacao beans and processors of chocolates.
It reported that since high quality and good tasting chocolates come from quality freshly harvested cacao beans, the process entails the importance that raw materials are assessed prior to processing.
Cacao beans with high sugar content and have not exhibited onset of fermentation are deemed as high quality.
The use of the cacao quality sensor will encourage growers to command a better price as buyers will be assured that the quality of the beans sold to them is within acceptable range.
Similarly, processors will benefit from using high quality cacao beans as raw materials for chocolate processing.
