Η Αξιοποίηση των Μέσων Κοινωνικής Δικτύωσης στην Πρωτοβάθμια Εκπαίδευση

Abstract

Nowadays, social media are used more and more in the educational process. The teachers, who are the main pillars for the introduction and use of social media in education, have started with small steps to have confidence in them. The results of a survey conducted among teachers who served in public primary schools in Attica the 2014-15 school year, showed that over half of the teachers make "moderate" to "very" frequent use of social media in their teaching work. The teachers who use more the social media in their teaching work, are women, young teachers, teachers who have certification in new technologies, teachers who have access to the internet and teachers belonging to superior hierarchical position (executives of education). YouTube, as a means of mounting and displaying educational material, is the most-used social media with great difference from Facebook and Blogger which occupy second place. The potential of social media for collaboration, exchange and communication among members of the educational community has not yet sufficiently exploited.