Social networks and Language teaching

This is a 2-hour collaborative session to analyse the potential of social networks and their use in language teaching.

The massive use of social media networks like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Flicker, etc, has generated a lot of potential as pedagogical tools. In this session, participants will critically analyse and discuss the pros and cons of using these technologies in language learning, and explore some “examples of good practice” by language teachers. Finally, the fun bit is where we’ll design a digital task using a social network!

Important Information for this session - BYOD - Bring Your Own Device

Advise participants to bring their own devices, especially mobile devices as this is the technology more and more students use to access social networks.

Can’t see the video?
Watch the session introduction video on Youtube

About the session host
Juan Fernández is a language tutor at UCL Centre for Languages and International Education.

Participate on Twitter
Interested but can’t make it to the session? Tweet your thoughts and opinions to @ucldigifest with hashtag #dfsoclt and populate the discussion online!

Filming, photography and recording
Participants are encouraged to take photographs, film clips and recordings of sessions and distribute these via social media. In addition the event organisers will be capturing the event and distributing photographs and film clips via the event website and other public channels. By attending a digifest event you consent to photographs and film clips being used in this way. Please inform the event organisers at each session if you do not wish to be recorded and we will endeavour to ensure this. For queries, please contact ele@ucl.ac.uk.