Facebook Page for Teaching and Learning

 

Facebook Page for Teaching and Learning

Facebook is very popular social media app in these days. It is a social networking tool where Facebook user post their ideas, photos, contents and so on in order to facilitate remote learning. People use Facebook for entertainment, chatting, video calling and so on. People share their concurrent news using Facebook.

Similarly, Facebook page is useful for all teachers and students for better teaching and learning activities. Teachers make different kinds of Facebook pages for sharing the contents getting stuck in particular topic. We can get many information about education through Facebook pages. We should not only depend upon rote learning and textbook rather we have to take assistance of such applications that brings teacher and student both parties on the same ground. We learn something new using Facebook pages. In the 21st century, it is the age of technology where most of the people engage on the social media like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram for the exchange of knowledge.

In addition to that, Facebook is the platform where teacher make connection with his/her students. Teacher make a teaching learning group and discuss about various topics. According Isham: “Facebook seems to be one of the most effective tools because students generally respond to discussions quickly and are comfortable enough in their "space" to share their information and opinions” (Isham, 2014). Using a Facebook page teachers post their teaching materials in order to ease students to have easy access over it. Nowadays there are various kinds of Facebook pages and that are filled up with immense portion of information in which students surf to quench the topic related information.

Facebook page is equally important for all because when there is no physical presence it establishes the connection between them through topic related content. People who cannot participate in classroom discussion, they are attached using Facebook. Being in a group students discuss about the topic, communicate with each other in a specific subject matter. After all, Facebook is the social app for grooming up many people in the same stage where there is facility to share, comment and keep posted with the news available. For example: Library staff create Facebook group to use online feedback tool to inform about effective use of library for better learning of students. There are many pages renowned to share the forays of data for the preparation of academics.

Because of, Facebook is very modern type of social media where every teacher and students share their own interest, views, perspective and many more about teaching learning activities. For example: English teachers create a Facebook group and ask their students to post a paragraph on the text which is related to our textbook. After that students post their ideas about the text and teacher focuses their work and comments on specific course objective. Slowly and gradually students are encouraged to post their interesting pictures, text on a Facebook page. According to Kelly: “Facebook in Education examines ways in which Facebook is being used in an educational context. Students use Facebook for educational purpose and teacher share teaching” (Kelly, 2011). Learning information on Facebook group where students learn and exchange information with their teacher. Teacher also share institutional information on Facebook. For example: Teacher alert students about vacation, exam routine and so on. Similarly, for the small students who are studying in basic level can acknowledge the contents through videos and animations. Students and teacher know about the current affairs, news by using Facebook pages. Using Facebook students solve their problem easily, they can research up on many topic and find many sources, information about any subject.

All the information available in Facebook page can not bear equal credibility. However, nowadays there are many admins who open up any Facebook pages and for ease of access they post volume of information about any specific subject. When the Facebook users go through the very pages they can read it thoroughly. Moreover the admin general controls over the page and pass the authentic information, by letting to like, share and comment, admin acknowledges the comments to be encapsulated. There are many Facebook pages of government offices and academic institutions which pass the credible information and eases for all. It is Facebook users' responsibility to know the authenticity of information.

So that Facebook page is one of the best platform for teaching and learning. Students actively using Facebook for the betterment of their study. As well as it is way of communicating with those people. Students also gains digital skills such as; commenting, sharing, and identifying fake and real news. It is most relevant in these days. Therefore, Facebook page is best way of teaching and learning. Through the contents in any Facebook pages students and teachers ease to have easy information because it facilitates to download any information. Students can save data if there are no good network connections. So Facebook page is useful tools in these days.

Reference:

Walsh, K. (2011, November 02). 10 Beneficial Facebook Pages for Educators to Check Out. Emerging Ed Tech. https://ww.emergingedteh.com.

Hassan Shah, I. (2014, April). Facebook AS A Tool for Teaching and Learning. Port Dickson Polytechnic. https://www.researchgate.net

 

                                                                     Srijana Shrestha