In this day in age social media is a quintessential part of our daily life. Yes, its kind of become overbearing with everyone's nose stuck to their iPhone screens perusing every social media platform: Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Whatsgoodly, Pinterest, Vine, Youtube and Tumblr/Blogger, on and endless mind-numbing cycle. But, its just a fact, so like they say "if you can't beat them, join them." So utilizing social media as a learning tool is a really great technique to integrate a usually mindless activity into one that can actually benefit our lives in some way. However, the internet isn't all bad, actually its quite essential to our day to day functionality. Like I wrote in our 'Top 10 Inventions Post,' "The whole world literally at our fingertips, any question you have can be answered in a matter of seconds. With the use of smartphones we’ve made ourselves more efficient and accessible. Our entire globe is connected over this non-physical entity and that is insane to me. We get and send information instantly and everyone knows what’s going on in the world, which is unfortunately very important in the state of our world today. Knowledge can be obtained faster than ever thought imaginable."The way this class employed social media platforms has made the homework really fun and was a great learning tool. Mixing our everyday routines with knowledge is a great idea. It's like how Facebook has news sections and Twitter is used for constant updates on world events and crisis'. But instead of current news, we used it to educate people on patent cases and patent information in general. By using these platforms it made the homework seem less intimidating, especially the idea of the tweets. Plus, having to keep the youtube videos to 2-3 minutes really taught me a great skill of the picking and choosing what I believed to be the most important information of a case or idea that I trying to write about. Being able to keep things concise yet still incredibly educational is a great skill to have, especially for me, as someone who rambles a lot. Overall, I thought this practice was extremely fun and made IEOR190G really stand out in a positive way for me!
Hey Harley!
ReplyDeleteGood picture to really help us understand what you're talking about. I agree that utilizing social media is a good idea because it's so prevalent so it's better to embrace it than try to fight it. The homework was indeed less intimidating and getting educated by our classmates/educating our fellow classmates is never a bad thing.