5 Ways How Schools can Leverage Social Networks
There’s is lot of Buzz around about Social Network is changing the rules of the market place where competitors are measuring their market position using customized Twitter clients. Nike is using Facebook to entice its customers by sending them free vouchers online through Mail Box. Samsung started Google BUZZ to send product updates to News agencies and customers. How Social Networks can be helpful for School?
1) Teachers – Parents Bridge: While parents are the first teacher’s for their kids, knowledge to understand the world comes only through school teachers. Parents can learn a lot about their ward when they are in regular communication with the teachers so that they can give right directions to their kids development. Although such Parent-Teachers meetings are regularly organized by School administration, but mostly last for general feedback from teachers to parents which are in general cases very less detail oriented and irrelevant. Internet Social networks can play a great role in such cases. SchoolSearch by itself is an Open social network where Parents and Teachers can have open discussions. Facebook, TheSchoolsUnited, Edmodo are few to name.
2) Social Network for Learning: While there are many resources available online for schools kids, all parents are more or less confused which resources are more useful. But when these resources are channelized through a well controlled social community these resources come served to their hands. An Oracle initiative ThinkQuest, is one of best leaning space for children. It organizes International Project contest and other online quizzes in a true social way. Edmodo is also an online platform where teachers can set assignments and polls to be in contact with their fellow students.
3) School News Updates: School administrations can make best use social networks to inform parents about the upcoming event/important date/results. SchoolSearch enables schools to provide all these updates and help them reach to school parents through EMails/SMS/Social network. Well many school in India have started using Twitter to send out School opening update to Parents. As the Indian masses grow who accept such technologies, schools are expected to be ruling in social network sphere more than ever.
4) School Branding and Advertisement: Social Networks are the cheapest medium to shell out schools’ achievements, results, news that will help upcoming schools create its reputation and confidence among parents. Pre-Schools and Kindergarten are sprouting each days can go online to create a buzz among the new tech savvy parents generation.
5) School Networks as a Learning Game Tool: Enter social video games as a solution — immersive environments that simulate real-world problems. Today, technologically eager schools are replacing textbook learning with social video games, and improving learning outcomes in the process. Here’s how they’re doing it Quest2Learn
All in all the world is changing and so should our education infrastructure.
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