One of the things we hope to accomplish during the L&T symposium is a 'live feed' of the presentations, panel discussions and activities during the event itself. Watch this space for more!
Manail
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Showing posts with label 8thLTEffat. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Monday, December 13, 2010
Social Media for Positive Social Change
Social media is a hot subject. Youth is excited about it. Older people like myself are still questioning its usefulness. Whatever your opinion is, social media is here and we need to know more about it.
The city of Jeddah has witnessed a devastating flood in November 2009 and the Saudi youth in Jeddah got immediately mobilized to help and report about the damages using social media. This is was what created the interest in Effat University. We found out that social responsibility and awareness about the community, which are the skills that any university dreams of achieving in its graduates, were demonstrated in a very spontaneous way using social media.
The symposium to be held on Wednesday and Thursday, December 15 and 16, at Effat University would like to highlight this youth significant experience and also go beyond and look on two very important aspects of social media. The first one is how to use it in education to meet the youth expectations while fostering learning; and the second one is to educate young students in high schools about it and prepare them to be responsible citizens who will use it for positive social change.
Please check this blog frequently, our wonderful students will have posts for every session of the event.
Thank you to Effat students.
Houria.
Houria Oudghiri, Provost
Effat University
The city of Jeddah has witnessed a devastating flood in November 2009 and the Saudi youth in Jeddah got immediately mobilized to help and report about the damages using social media. This is was what created the interest in Effat University. We found out that social responsibility and awareness about the community, which are the skills that any university dreams of achieving in its graduates, were demonstrated in a very spontaneous way using social media.
The symposium to be held on Wednesday and Thursday, December 15 and 16, at Effat University would like to highlight this youth significant experience and also go beyond and look on two very important aspects of social media. The first one is how to use it in education to meet the youth expectations while fostering learning; and the second one is to educate young students in high schools about it and prepare them to be responsible citizens who will use it for positive social change.
Please check this blog frequently, our wonderful students will have posts for every session of the event.
Thank you to Effat students.
Houria.
Houria Oudghiri, Provost
Effat University
LNT (social media)
Learning and Technology is an Annual Symposium arranged by Effat University which mostly targets the interactive Topics of society. Every year a team sits, propose different topics and then selects one democratically.
This year theme is about Social Media! And we are hoping to set some constructive goals for future and one of the goals is to come up with a High School Curriculum for social media in line with Microsoft!
Nighat Mir
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