My name is Adil Orfi. I am pursuing a lifelong professional learning career in Education. My educational background is diverse. After my high school graduation, I focused on Electrical Engineering field with concentration on control system. I got my BSEE from Cleveland State University. I worked with various companies simulating, testing and designing electrical systems. My interest of learning other languages led me to pursue classes in modern languages in Akron University ( French and Spanish).
My interest are sciences, education and learning about various cultures through their languages. I like to be active as well. It started with playing soccer in the streets of my neighborhood during my childhood in Casablanca, Morocco, During my youth, I managed to run four marathons in Cleveland and Columbus. I like the challenge of running a distance. It taught me perseverance, patience and determination. As I progress in age, I limit my self to hiking and biking. However, I am looking forward to run my fifth marathon in the near future.
My prefered social medial tools that I currently use are Facebook, Twitter and You tube. When I travel overseas, I tend to use Whatsapp to stay in touch with the family members and friends. Due to a limited memory in my Android, I keep the social media application downloaded to my phone to the minimum.The authors of the scholarly article Personal Learning Environments, social media, and self-regulated learning: A natural formula for connecting formal and informal learning.mention Their perspective of social media in higher education is the use of a bundle of technology tools that become an integral part of the learner's education and open the channel of communication between learners and teachers as wells as students and experts in the field. The social media in educational field could be Twitter, Wiki, Flicker, Youtube...etc
On the other hand the author of the video Web 2.0 revolution TED talk, Clay Shirky stated that journalim is transitioned from an institution to cooperative framework. Society is informed through social media rather than the printing press traditional way of receiving information.
I agree with both authors that there's a shift of equilibrium from self centered source to a global source. It changes the dynamic of the society. In addition social media, is an integral part of personal learning through sharing information.
I use social media to get the daily news as well as supplemental information to clarify concepts that are not clear to me in my academics. I get technical news feed in electrical engineering through the Institute of Electrical Engineering in my Facebook timeline.www.ieee.org . I participate in few meetup social groups such as Spanish and French meetups. I often use either messenger or Skype to communicate with family members overseas. I sometimes share my interests on my Facebook page. I usually read the opinion and reflections of others. I seldom comment or write on issues that circulate on the net. Hopefully, this first blog will encourage me to do so.
My initial thoughts on the use of social media technology in the classroom, is positive. It is a medium that revive learning. Social media present learning in various ways. Social media allow the learner to be active rather that just listening to the teacher. In addition social media uses several type of learning styles such as auditory and visual learning.
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