Instant Messaging
Instant messaging is a tool used by a vast majority of Internet users. This new tools has some advantages and some disadvantages. IM is used a lot of the time in education. It’s used for recruiting and admissions, student-faculty communications, library consultations, group projects, and immediate feedback, and discussions during lectures. Businesses are also finding instant messaging useful, as well as the deaf community. Some of the disadvantages are that teachers don’t feel comfortable using IM, instant messaging might interfere with students work, and viruses can be passed via instant messaging through links. Instant messaging seems to have a more positive side than negative.
Instant messaging has many benefits and that’s why so many people use it today. Instant messaging can happen instantly. One doesn’t have to sit around and wait for a response like with e-mail. Someone stated that, “You can check to see if a pal is online and available, key in a “Wassup?” and you’re chatting away” (Reid, 2004).
Also, IM has a big impact on students. With instant messaging they’re able to, “create, join, leave, and rejoin at will what the Pew Internet group calls “virtual study groups” (Woods, 2002). There are always some communication delays because of dinner interruptions or a favorite television show may be on. A high school girl stated that, “Not only do I research online, but I also use it for chatting with people for school. If I forget an assignment or need assistance on a concept I cannot grasp, the Internet is an easy way for me to get in touch with a peer who might be an aid to me” (2002). If a student has a teacher’s screen name than he or she can get imm...
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Communicating effectively with parents and students is important in order to be successful at teaching. Studies have shown that parental involvement in a student’s education allows for greater success in the classroom (Duarte, G, Cerda-Perez, E & Rosenberg, G 2007). Technology is beneficial in communicating with students and parents. The use of technology allows for students and parents to have access to current lesson plans as well as access to the teacher after normal school hours. This opens up doorways for the student or parent to ask questions about assignments and class discussions. The uses of classroom websites, e-mails, text messaging and student web sites are just a few examples of technology that is used to communicate with parents and students.
The majority of students prefer studying with group of people. Thanks to the Internet it allows students to work together collaborating with ideas and knowledge at the same time. For example, last quarter in my world politics class, I send out an email with two links that helped the whole class study for the midterm. I send out a Google doc’s link that helped the class organize their notes and a Skype link to answer any questions face to face video chat over the sections that they needed help understanding. The amazing part about Google docs is that multiple classmates would edit the document at the same time. Many students found this studying method useful not because they gain better grades, but they got to meet new students on campus and allowing them to be social connected through social media. On the other hand, Stoll may argue that students may face loneliness and depression, which in reality Internet has help students meet other students and become friends. Therefore, Students should keep studying in groups sessions online meet other students on campus to become
Online learning: the wave of the future? Many say yes as students from kindergarten to the graduate level continue to participate in communication via the Internet. They range from small projects to entire online courses and degree programs. In the college classroom, the Internet has taken on a sort of “replacement” role to the traditional classroom set up, while in the secondary classroom, teachers are finding ways to incorporate the Internet, namely listservs and discussion groups to supplement the time spent in the actual classroom. This insurgence of technology helps students to become familiar with the Internet and software programs, it gives the shy student a chance to shine where he/she may not normally have a chance, and it has allowed for more student-generated discussion.
Technology has improved how we communicate with one another and opens many doors for us. In ancient times people had to directly take a message somewhere, which could take days, weeks, or even years. Today, a person can send a message that would arrive in less than 10 seconds, whether it be via e-mail or text message. Source B by Kevin Delaney discusses how teachers are impressed by the new use of technology in their classroom. They are able to let children learn foreign languages online, use technology to analyze data and new gadgets to collect that data. Some people such as Tim Wilson, a technology-integration specialist at Hopkins High School in Minnetonka, Minnesota and Angel Boligan, a Mexican political cartoonist feel that technology is breaking and weakening communication between youth and the outside world. Wilson brings up the question in Source B “how do we communicate with students today who have grown up with technology from the beginning?” and Boligan in Source F also raises a similar question with his cartoon, asking how can children connect to the outside world if they are so d...
... when supporting or objecting to their decisions. The students, as well, will be able to use the information gathered in this study to make personal decisions on their amount of texting when deciding avenues to take in order to do well in their college career. Other positive uses for the information found in this survey as well. If it is found that texting may have a profound effect on education success, schools, as well as students, may be inclined to develop alternate uses for text messaging. As the acquiring of smart-phones is increasing among college students, it seems a compromise could be made where teachers and schools embrace text messages and use them to communicate with their students about assignments and other school-related communication. Overall, this study will allow a reassessment of possible necessary precautions and changes among college campuses.
As the name suggests, instant messaging, or IM, is the real-time delivery of a message from one user to another. Communication between any computing stations can occur as long as the appropriate version of the program is installed. Users must also be concurrently running an IM client (program) as well as be on the same IM network [7]. A conversation that occurs between two or more users is known as a session (or channel). A session can either be public, where any and all users can participate, or private, where users must be invited to participate in the session. Buddy lists, also known as contact lists, allow users to maintain communication with specific users of the same IM client and network.
Throughout the course of this class, and more specifically the process of generating an idea for my final project, I found myself drawn time and again to the way people interact with each other electronically namely the internet. Having been involved in computers and nearly everything related for the majority of my life I have experienced a number of different tools and applications from chat rooms to online games to instant messaging that provide a means of interacting with others in a number of different ways. This experience and other concepts and ideas that Ive either read about or envisioned stood as my foundation in deciding on and formulating this project.
With all the social networking apps and chat apps, kids are starting to use those more than actual face to face interactions. They find it easier just to text someone how to do something instead of meeting up with them as having them explain it to them in person. With having face-to-face interactions, “students can form friendships and relationships with their peer” according to the article “5 Problems with Technology in the Classroom” by Heick.
Delaney explains that technology allows, “the educators...interact with students, parents and each other in ways they never have before.” The teachers are able to stay in contact with a student even when they are not at school. When a kid is sick and misses a day of school he no longer falls behind but is able to keep up with the help of technology. He also explains that technology not only helps the connection between the student and the teacher but also between the student and other students. He explains that teachers now have their students post online their papers so that other students can read over it and help them. This is an extremely powerful tool in the world of education that students and teachers have never had before until now. Although these new methods of learning are cutting edge and extremely beneficial they also have the recoil of the struggle of having adults and teachers who did not grow up with technology not being able to communicate with the students of
Having access to the Internet can hinder student’s abilities to interact with other students. Keith Hampton wrote in his article “Social Media as a Community,” “Americans have fewer intimate relationships today than 20 years ago.” The reason being is the access of social media sites and other websites via the Internet. Rather than complete assignments or communicating directly, many students secretly pull out their phones or access social media accounts on their computers, which distracts students and hinders interaction. In addition, many teenagers would rather play games or surf the web rather than converse with classmates and form and develop friendships. Removing Internet access can help students interact face-to-face instead of using social media to do so or playing games in free
It is very important for students to be in a position to learn from anywhere at any time. The education world is changing and many scholars take online classes. Online education is now becoming so popular , mobile phones have also helped in the growth of mobile learning. Unlike a computer, cell phones are light and easy to carry. Advanced cell phones like the iPhone, Samsung Galaxy, have wide screens which can display data. Shy students find online apps useful, because they can stay anonymous and ask a question, instead of a classroom where they will fear to raise their hand to ask a question or help from the teacher or their fellow students. Teachers can also use text messaging service to send simple assignments to their students while at home. Parents can easily keep track of their children using cell phones, sometimes things pop up during school hours, the child can just contact their
In the past decade, technology brings huge impacts on social interaction. From phone call to facetime, from blog to Facebook. Advance technology enables us to reach and communicate with people in a more convenient and broad way, no matter how far these people are away from us. Medium of communication are growing. However, some old ways of communications never fade out. And I am going to talk about
The younger generation particularly has seized on the strange communication through the Internet. Using chat groups on different subjects they are taking in school, they conduct live conversations by keyboard through the internet.
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Some of the barriers that coexist with chat room communication include a limited ability to show emotion as well as a tedious typing requirement. To address these issues, many new abbreviated expressions have been introduced.