Problems of creating an educational social network

Developing the topic of educational social networks, one just cannot help but tell why these same educational social networks (hereinafter OSS ) have not yet captured the world .

What prevents the emergence of a popular educational social network?


... as well as the integration of OSS into the education system of the country (countries?) At all levels, the global rise of the level of education, the creation and development of new effective methods of distance learning, increasing the salaries of teachers ..?

Okay, if I explain why the salaries of teachers in our country are so low, I am not able to, then it’s definitely worth going over the rest of the items headlong.

So why is everything not as we would like?
We put forward several basic hypotheses and carefully consider them. Once a post on a hub, it’s worth starting with ...

Lack of technical capability (information about such a possibility in the Ministry of Education and Science)

Of course, we will not consider that creating a social network in which there will be a couple of new roles (teacher, tutor, examiner) and the ability to take interactive and not very courses is impossible. Rather, one wonders if the Ministry of Education is aware of this possibility.

On the one hand, there is FTsPRO (... an education development program) for which solid ( billions of rubles ) money was spent (results are in a single window , for example, for 2008 (part two) ), including hundreds of millions for electronic educational resources (ESM) / DSC, about the same thing that you need to add to a social network so that it becomes educational).

On the other hand there is an electronic textbook, in which, apparently, the textbooks will be even without hypertext. About other ESMs all the more you can not remember.

We assume that the hypothesis is erroneous . Although the aforementioned electronic miracle makes you wary.

The Ministry of Education also carefully monitors compliance with certain standards ...

The need to follow SanPiNu

In addition to the various requirements of SanPiN, such as the maximum number of people in a class, the presence of a certain area of ​​windows and certain sizes of desks, there are also requirements for the time that a student can spend on a computer.

That is, even at a computer science lesson, no matter how much an applied topic a teacher leads, one cannot sit at a machine for the whole lesson. The norms change from class to class (if my memory serves me, then it is 15 minutes in grades 1-4, 30 minutes from 9 to 11; somewhere between classes 4 and 9 there is a smooth transition in two stages), but this does not change the essence - You can not learn only for computers. And if we consider OSS as a way of developing education, then we are obliged to take into account the norms adopted in this education.

Say what you like, it turns out that a significant (and in the elementary and middle grades a clearly large) part of the material students should receive without the help of computers (projectors and interactive whiteboards, to which the teacher is attached, does not count). We mark the hypothesis as true .

Here it is necessary to pay attention to a substantial number of existing distance learning systems with an impressive number of users (especially in the West). But if you look closely, it turns out that most of the users of these systems are engaged in receiving HE or are engaged in retraining, advanced training, etc. Perhaps it’s still in ...

Motivation. Attention.

What does a good teacher 's lesson look like ? For simplicity, we consider a lesson without a controlling part and without working on a computer. Do not forget that teachers are not only in computer science, but they are also part of the educational system (and, accordingly, candidates for participation in the OSS).

And so, what does a good teacher do when he needs to give out material that is not outstanding? He builds a lesson using various techniques. His lesson is dynamic, communicating with everyone, he communicates with everyone. Every few minutes (the interval depends on age characteristics) the type of activity (and the channel for perceiving information) of the students changes: they just listened to an interesting story about ... the past, and now they are already trying to imagine themselves in the place of historical figures and draw a dashed line on the map, and in a couple of minutes they solve a problematic issue, which is the key to the next milestone of the past ... And all the didactic materials (textbooks, maps, photographs, presentations, sound recordings, videos, ESMs ...) here serve one purpose, and this eh - to teach. Or even so: teach. And while he is teaching, the students want to know what will happen in a minute. They are attentive, focused on the material ... after how many years will they be able to maintain such motivation and concentration on what is needed, and not on what they want?

You can list for a long time further what each good lesson does, a good teacher, this is not about that. The point is that little of what a good teacher uses in his lessons can be embodied in the form of an application (ESM) to a social network. And no video recordings, programs, no accounting for the psychophysical features of the perception of information can replace a good teacher. We mark the hypothesis true .

In our country, there are many places where distance learning is being introduced. Basically, this is of course VO and what comes after it. Universities are also happy to organize a variety of quizzes, training competitions for students ... and more. In any case, both at school and in universities, teachers are still largely responsible for motivation. And the statements “yes I ...”, “yes we ...” more often come from those who actually can take care of themselves. From those who know what he wants (or should) learn. And these people, as a rule, finished their tower quite a long time ago. Their experience cannot be passed on to the entire education system.

What is often forgotten is that the school is not only engaged in teaching ...

Parenting

When parents send their children to school, they have the right to expect that their children will learn to communicate with other children, they will know what the internal organs of alcoholics and drug addicts look like, they will not ask questions about where the children come from, they will know about methods of contraception and why they are forbidden to walk until one in the morning ... Likewise, teachers in schools cultivate the best human qualities, advise circles and various institutions of additional education that will help find their place in this world, discover talents in themselves; instill patriotism and an affection for cleanliness and neatness.

Of course, the student is more susceptible to authoritative personalities. If the teacher will not be with him every day, from minute to minute, proving his existence by his existence, to form his authority, then education will hardly be successful.

Try to explain (not so that they would remember, but so that they would understand) to an unfamiliar group of 12 year-old children what the Great Patriotic War was (and this is one of the simple ways of education), and what their ancestors did for them. Give it a try. But chur - by mail (or through a social network). And so that after that they would not suffer from neurosis.

In general, we add the hypothesis to the approved piggy bank.

Summary

Modern teaching methods are not built from scratch, and there is enough sense in using them. Of course, the educational system is very inert, but this does not mean that it is worth demolishing everything and building on a new one. Pedagogy is developing, and a huge impetus in development was given precisely by information and communication technologies. Give time, and changes in pedagogy will firmly enter life ... maybe not ours, and not our children. But grandchildren and great-grandchildren for sure.

Little dream

Personally, I would really like to see a normal information system, a portal on the basis of which any school could make its own website (with a schedule, grades, news, photo and video galleries, a forum, distance learning tools ...) and so that there would be no need to know any IT wisdom. And it could be called an educational social network.

PS
Please do not write that somewhere there are teachers who would be better to replace with a gigabyte of EORs and a social network for students.

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