[agents] CFP Special Session on Applications and Requirements of Social Media Supported Education-eSOCIAL

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CALL FOR PAPERS

 

Special Session on Applications and Requirements of Social Media Supported
Education - eSOCIAL 2013

In conjunction with the 5th International Conference on Computer Supported
Education - CSEDU 2013

 

Website: http://www.csedu.org/eSOCIAL.aspx

 

May 6 - 8, 2013

Aachen, Germany

Co-organized by: RWTH

Sponsored by: INSTICC

INSTICC is Member of: WfMC, OMG, SEFI, EATEL and IGIP

In Cooperation with: ACM SIGITE

Technically sponsored by: ROLE, IGIP and IFIP

 

IMPORTANT DATES:

 

Paper Submission: February 27, 2013 
Authors Notification: March 15, 2013 
Camera Ready and Registration: March 26, 2013

 

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We would like to draw your attention to the Applications and Requirements of
Social Media Supported Education - eSOCIAL 2013 (held in conjunction with
the 5th International Conference on Computer Supported Education- CSEDU
2013), whose submission deadline is scheduled for February 27, 2013.

A special interest group in this session are teachers and associated groups
like students, children, parents, policy makers, researchers or the general
public. Teachers are surrounded by a huge range of social media which is
used by their students and it seems to be self-evident that teachers meet
the new challenges in their everyday teaching performance. But on the other
way around social media do not care about teachers’ needs. Social media
technology in general is developed without asking for teachers needs and how
teachers could be prepared for teaching in 21st century classes. 


The special session is on needs analyses focusing on the human elements of a
requirement analysis. Paper submissions on relevant topics and questions
have to outline a clear methodology how the needs of teachers’ (and other
target groups’) social media literacy have been derived. 


The special session takes place in context of the European Life Long
Learning project Media at Ware – Improvement of Media Literacy Education via
Virtual Learning. 





 

 

 

 

TOPICS OF INTEREST


Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Social Media Applications and Literacy in context of 21st century skills

• Definitions of social media literacy in general and for teachers and
students in particular

• Discussion on methods to gather teachers’ and students’ social media
literacy needs 

• Teachers’ social media literacy needs to support students critical
thinking and reflection on the use of social media based information

• The need of teachers’ social media literacy to exchange information,
material, experiences, contacts, etc.

• Benefits and drawbacks of social media for teachers (compared to other
target groups)

• Teachers’ social media literacy needs compared to other target groups
(students, children, parents, researchers, policy makers, general audience)

• Identification of target groups to be investigated to gather social media
literacy needs

• Best practice examples on teachers’ peer-to-peer-learning activities by
using social media 

• Best practice examples on teachers’ social media use in their classes

• Best practice examples on teacher training courses how to make use of
social media

• Case studies on teachers’ and students’ social media participation and
contributions (e.g. Wikipedia, Facebook, YouTube, etc.)

• Gender-sensitive social media literacy case studies and needs analyses

• Informal and formal learning of social media literacy 

• Personal differences and their impact on social media use on the student
level

• Stages of social media literacy at schools, universities, for individual
use and in jobs

• Comparison of social media literacy needs among different (EU and non-EU)
countries

 

Submitted papers will be subject to a double-blind review process. 

All papers accepted to the workshop will be published in a special section
of the conference proceedings book, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on
CD-ROM.

 

The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters
Conference Proceedings Citation Index (ISI), INSPEC, DBLP and EI (Elsevier
Index). All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at
the SCITEPRESS Digital Library ( <http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary/>
http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary/). SCITEPRESS is member of CrossRef
( <http://www.crossref.org/> http://www.crossref.org/).

 

CSEDU 2013 will be held in conjunction with WEBIST 2013 (9th International
Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies -
http://www.webist.org/), SMARTGREENS 2013 (International Conference on Smart
Grids and Green IT Systems -  <http://www.smartgreens.org/>
http://www.smartgreens.org/) and CLOSER 2013 (3rd International Conference
on Cloud Computing and Services Science - http://closer.scitevents.org/) in
Aachen, Germany. 

Registration to CSEDU will enable free attendance to any sessions of WEBIST,
SMARTGREENS and CLOSER conferences as a non-speaker.

 

Please check further details at the workshop website

(http://www.csedu.org/eSOCIAL.aspx) and the main conference website
(http://www.csedu.org/CallForPapers.aspx).

 

CO-CHAIRS

 

Sylvana Kroop 
ZSI - Centre for Social Innovation 
Austria 

 

Ali Ulusoy 
Erciyes University Communication Faculty 
Turkey 

 

In case of questions, please feel free to contact us:
<mailto:%20csedu.secretariat at insticc.org> csedu.secretariat at insticc.org

 

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Please check the special session´s program committee members at
http://www.csedu.org/eSOCIAL.aspx