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Part 2: Using Facebook as a learning platform (videos)

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Social networking sites have educational benefits: University of Minnesota researcher Christine Greenhow breaks down how her research has found that social networking sites like Facebook and Myspace can have an impact for learning and educational growth for high school students.

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The future of eLearning, part 2

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Social networking is not some new category of computer use that Facebook (or Friendster/MySpace/Twitter/etc) invented. Whereas in the past you had traditional schooling and eLearning, and the two did not meet, in the future no actual school and no physical classroom will be considered complete if it doesn’t incorporate an eLearning element.

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The future of eLearning, part 2

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Social networking is not some new category of computer use that Facebook (or Friendster/MySpace/Twitter/etc) invented. Whereas in the past you had traditional schooling and eLearning, and the two did not meet, in the future no actual school and no physical classroom will be considered complete if it doesn’t incorporate an eLearning element.

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Using social media for eLearning (a look at the top 6 social platforms)

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A huge part of our social lives already happens online rather than in the “real world” And while individual social media networks might rise and fall (remember MySpace?), social networking itself is not going anywhere.

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Using social media for eLearning (a look at the top 6 social platforms)

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A huge part of our social lives already happens online rather than in the “real world” And while individual social media networks might rise and fall (remember MySpace?), social networking itself is not going anywhere.

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Infographic: How Google has changed what it means to do research

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2003: Myspace launched. . > Blew away all search engines except Inktomi; meanwhile, Goto/Overture’s annual revenues were nearly $1 billion. 2000: 400 million people across the globe use the internet. 2001: First commercial launch of 3G (Third Generation) mobile phones. 2001: First Access Grid developed at the University of Manchester.

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Infographic: How Google has changed what it means to do research

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2003: Myspace launched. . > Blew away all search engines except Inktomi; meanwhile, Goto/Overture’s annual revenues were nearly $1 billion. 2000: 400 million people across the globe use the internet. 2001: First commercial launch of 3G (Third Generation) mobile phones. 2001: First Access Grid developed at the University of Manchester.

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