EĞİTİMDE EĞİTSEL SOSYAL AĞ SİTELERİNİN KULLANIMI: EDMODO ÖRNEĞİ

Abstract

Students’ extensive use of social networking sites caught attention of educators in terms of how these sites can be used in education. Correspondingly educational social networking sites, which operate basically just like social networking sites, came into the picture. They have also extra applications like quiz and assignment applications similarly with learning management systems. Findings of a limited number of researches performed about them suggest that educational social networking sites can be used in educational environments successfully. Edmodo is the leading educational social networking site in the world. In this context, the aim this study is to introduce Edmodo, to compare Edmodo with social networking sites and learning management systems, and to give information to educators about how they can make use of Edmodo

Keywords

• edmodo, educational social networking sites, learning management systems, social networking sites

EĞİTİMDE EĞİTSEL SOSYAL AĞ SİTELERİNİN KULLANIMI: EDMODO ÖRNEĞİ

Abstract

Günümüzde öğrencilerin sosyal ağ sitelerini yoğun kullanmaları eğitimcilerin de dikkatini çekmiş ve sosyal ağ sitelerinin eğitimde nasıl kullanılabileceği çeşitli araştırmalara konu olmuştur. Bununla paralel olarak temelde sosyal ağ sitesi gibi işleyiş gösteren, ancak sosyal ağ sitelerinin olası olumsuz etkilerini azalttığı iddia edilen ve öğrenme yönetim sistemlerinde olduğu gibi ödev ve sınav uygulamaları gibi çeşitli araçlar sunan eğitsel sosyal ağ siteleri ortaya çıkmıştır. Bu sitelerin etkililiği konusunda yapılan az sayıdaki çalışmanın sonuçları eğitsel sosyal ağ sitelerinin eğitsel ortamlarda kullanılması konusunda olumlu sonuçlar sunmaktadır. Dünyada en yaygın kullanılan eğitsel sosyal ağ sitelerinin başında ise Edmodo gelmektedir. Bu bağlamda bu çalışmanın amacı; eğitsel sosyal ağ sitelerinden biri olan Edmodo’yu tanıtmak, Edmodo’yu sosyal ağ siteleri ve öğrenme yönetim sistemleri ile karşılaştırmak ve öğretmenlerin Edmodo’yu nasıl kullanabileceklerine yönelik olarak bilgiler vermektir

Keywords

• edmodo, eğitsel sosyal ağ siteleri, öğrenme yönetim sistemleri, sosyal ağ siteleri

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