Competence in Working Life and Networks

-
Competence in Working Life and Networks


1. Group EduWarriors:
Social media in (business /work) networking? Pros and Cons. (FB, Insta, Twitter, Snatchat…)
Give examples.

2. Group Paw Patrol:
What are the absolute musts in networking for a (vocational) teacher? Give examples and reasons and benefits.
For those with a theoretical bent: 

3. Group Dominator: 
Outline some theoretical background for (social) networking. Some buzz words and catch phrases:
> Social network theory
> Network analysis
> Human biology & behaviour

SOCIAL NETWORK THEORY

Social network theory views social relationships in terms of nodes and ties. Three theoretical approaches : 

· Two-step flow of communication hypothesis (Liu et al. 2017, p.4)
· The theory of weak ties (Liu et al. 2017, p.5)


· Diffusion of innovations (Liu et al. 2017, p.8)

NETWORK ANALYSIS

Network analysis can be based on e.g. sociometry. Sociometry is the study of positive and negative relations, such as liking/disliking and friends/enemies among a set of people.
Key elements of social network analyses:
•Actors (discrete social entities such as individuals or collectives)
•Relational ties (social ties such as resource-transfers, behavioral interaction)
•Dyads (tie between two actors)
•Triads (subgroup of three actors and their possible ties)

TRIADS EXAMPLE:
Transitivity 
If actor Lisa „likes“ Tom, and Tom „likes“ Charlie, then Lisa also „likes“ Charlie 

Balance 
If actor Lisa and Tom like each other, they should be similar in their evaluation of Charlie 
If actor Lisa and Tom dislike each other, they should evaluate Charlie differently

HUMAN BIOLOGY & BEHAVIOUR

What does it do to your brain when you share a picture and everyone you know likes it? It feel great, right! Your brain releases dopamine and you feel satisfaction. And what does it do when nobody likes it? You feel like deleting it because you have failed! That is, if your intention is to boost your ego with the new picture. Social media has had some unexpected results on human behavior, and the desire for attention and approval works straight into the hands of social media.

STRESS REACTION:
“The stress response begins with elevating blood pressure to move blood and oxygen to the large limbs in preparation for the eventuality of fight-or-flight. Then glucose is released into the bloodstream for quick energy, followed by other processes.The stress response is a good thing if preparing for fight-or-flight when one is reacting to actual threats because they are rare, and thereby do not over-tax the physiological mechanisms”. - Psychology Today

“Teens take other steps to shape their reputation, manage their networks, and mask information they don’t want others to know; 74% of teen social media users have deleted people from their network or friends list.”

SOURCE:

Liu, W., Sidhu, A.,Beacom, A.M. & Valente, T.W. 2017. Social Network Theory. Univeristy of Southern California, USA.

Sure-Vetter Y. (2013). Social Network Analysis; Lecture: Social Web and Bibliometrics; http://west.uni-koblenz.de/files/ss13/SocialWebAndBibliometrics/SocialNetworkAnalysis.pdf; retrieved 3 December 2018 

Wasserman, S., & Faust, K. (1994). Social network analysis: Methods and applications (Vol. 8). Cambridge university press.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

My learning Style

-
Image
We are all different kind of learners and maybe should be assessed differently! (Picture credit:  https://ljalearningdiversity.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/differentiated-assessment.jpg ) Here I put a link that will take you to see my learning style. You can try yours too! The VARK Questionnaire Your VARK Results Your scores were: Visual 3 Aural 4 Read/Write 3 Kinesthetic 6 You have a mild kinesthetic learning preference. Use the following pages for study strategies that apply to your learning preference: Kinesthetic http://vark-learn.com/the-vark-questionnaire/
Read more

Digital Pedagogy

-
Image
Analysing any of the sessions we had in the autumn 2018 (by referring to the recordings). Choose a session where in addition to the Adobe Connect tool some other digital tools are used. In the second session where the topic was Implementation 1 - Focus on virtual/online teaching, groups made use of Power-Point for presenting, Padlet for discussions and Mind-map for describing more of a topic. In Topic 5: Competence in Research and Development, a group made use of Digital Newsletter which is an interesting concept of presenting the topic. The digital ways of teaching will be explained below with the pros and cons that come along. Power-Point Power-Point is the most popular presentation software used in almost all sessions held in autumn 2018 as it is the easiest and more accessible methods. PowerPoint also works well in Adobe Connect by converting the PowerPoint slides into PDF when uploading in Adobe Connect. Power-Point is advantageous to use as: It is easy to creat...
Read more

EduSci: Part 1 & 2

-
Image
Part 1 THEORY 1 Jean Piaget theory of cognitive development Jean Piaget theory of cognitive development is about the nature and the development of human intelligence. Piaget’s theory comprises of 4 stages and they are: Sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational and formal operational. According to this theory, from birth to about 2 years of age, humans perceive the world through the senses (seeing, hearing, touching and smelling, grasping).  From the age of two years and older till 7 years, humans are more intuitive and represent things with words and images. Logical reasoning is absent. From the age of 7 to 11, logical thinking starts, and the development of mathematical skills evolves. After the age of 12, humans are able to reason abstractly. Photo by  Samantha Sophia  on  Unsplash In this picture, the child is about to grab something thrown in the air: 1. The child is looking up, instinctively as the object that she wants to gra...
Read more