Our vision is to revolutionise the way students view maths by instilling in them a genuine appreciation for the subject, using social media, ultimately leading to higher levels of literacy and increased academic achievement.
Students are engrossed in social media and spend a great deal of time online. Even in classrooms, it has been observed that some students are always busy twitting or Facebooking while lectures are on (Olubiyi, 2012). Driven by user-generated content-including the ability to share photos, videos, and comments with other readers and academic scholars also note that the amount of time spent on social media by the students has led to decrease in students point averages.
Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS) research demonstrates that social media can contribute to enhancing learning and teaching opportunities in Europe.
Research points to the fact that social media can lead to innovations in four different dimensions.
Firstly, social media allow learners to access a vast variety of (often freely available) learning content, which supports learning and professional development in a lifelong learning continuum; contributes to equity and inclusion and puts pressure on Education and Training institutions to improve the quality and availability of their learning material.
Secondly, social media allows users to create digital content themselves and publish it online, giving rise to a huge resource of user-generated content from which learners and teachers can mutually benefit, also encouraging more active and pro-active approaches to learning.
Thirdly, social media connects learners with one another, and to experts and teachers, allowing them to tap into the tacit knowledge of their peers and have access to highly specific and targeted knowledge in a given field of interest.
Fourthly, social media support collaboration between learners and teachers on a given project or a joint topic of interest, pooling resources and gathering the expertise and potential of a group of people committed to a common objective.
The specific goals is to
- Equip teachers with knowledge and skills to effectively use social medias to create engaging content
- Empower teachers to innovate and be creative with social media for educational activities
- Utilise social media to create interactive learning activities and reinforce the concepts learned in mathematics (mathematical principles, formulas, applications etc.).
Objectives
To develop training for teachers on how to create influencing social media content related to mathematics.
