A Facebook interface added to the regular platform in 2011-2012. Any Facebook member can create a group. It is a private space which allows one to connect with a specific set of friends (workplace, school, campus, hobbies…). A group makes it possible to share information, post updates on the group wall, chat with all members at once, upload/ create and edit a file and more. There are three kinds of groups. 1) Secret (only members can find it and see posts). 2) Closed (Anyone can find it and see who is in it. Only members can see posts). 3) Open (public) (Anyone can see the group, its members and the posts. Anyone can join).
Published in Chapter:
“Visit to a Small Planet”: Achievements and Attitudes of High School Students towards Learning on Facebook – A Case Study
Rikki Rimor (Kibbutzim College of Education Technology and the Arts, Israel) and Perla Arie (Kibbutzim College of Education Technology and the Arts, Israel)
Copyright: © 2016
|Pages: 30
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-9441-5.ch020
Abstract
The current chapter deals with the use of Facebook as a social network for learning. Collaborative learning, metacognition and reflectivity are theoretically discussed and assessed in the current Facebook learning environment, as essential skills of the 21st century. The case study presented examines the relationship between attitudes and achievements of high school students learning an English play in the Facebook closed-group environment. Its findings reveal a significant improvement in students' attitudes at the end of the sessions. However, these were not found to correlate with students' final achievements. In addition, low achieving students preferred to study collaboratively, as they did in the Facebook closed group, more than higher achieving students. These findings may indicate the contribution of other factors to achievement in addition to positive attitudes and satisfaction in the Facebook learning environment. A metacognitive analysis of the students' written responses supports and expands the findings of this study.