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“Over the last few years, TikTok has become one of the largest learning platforms in the world: It’s available in over 150 markets and is one of the most downloaded apps in 40-plus countries. On the app, which is available in 75 languages, creators make a variety of short-form videos on everything from cooking hacks to dance moves to crafts and math skills. The hashtag #LearnOnTikTok currently has more than seven billion views.”(Schwab, 2021)Accompanied by TikTok short video learning platform for the acceptance of the people more and more high, short video media attention to learn more and more is also high, is not as good as in the student period, students and teachers can learn by TikTok watch you need corresponding video, after graduation, graduates can also work by short video platform to find their own goals.

Here I would like to give an example of my TikTok account. When COVID-19 broke out in 2021, I chose to suspend my studies and go back to my hometown China to start my internship. At the end of May 2022, I successfully got internship offers from big Internet companies including Byte Runout of TikTok headquarters and Baidu of China. However, as MY major is economics, my final career plan is the financial industry. However, due to my insufficient working experience in the financial industry, So I haven’t been hired by any financial firm until June 2022. So in 20222 I thought of using TikTok short video platform in June, I tidy up my internship existing released on TikTok, less than two days, I received more than three thousand thumb up, and more than 30 play, because of the short video, I not only get to know many classmate also interested in the financial industry, at the same time, A human resources manager of a first-tier angel investment fund company contacted me, and after an interview with him, I got a precious internship opportunity in the financial industry.

Search algorithm recommended by big data computer technology I think convenient and saved people use the Internet time, with the progress of science and technology and perfect, nowadays people may need to brush only three or four video will see their interest, next to the graduate students prepare to participate in campus recruitment can make use of the computer technology will greatly reduce the time consumption students looking for work.

So in general, Tiktok is not only helpful for People’s Daily life entertainment, but also for students’ daily learning video player software and later learning aid, and even for job applicants looking for jobs.

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Schwab, K. (2021, April 12). TikTok is a thriving learning community-and may be the future of Education. Fast Company. Retrieved July 22, 2022, from https://www.fastcompany.com/90624117/tiktok-future-of-education-learning

“Today, both social media and technology have become an indispensable part of our lives. Every individual who is above 13 years old will have their account on any of the popular social media networks such as Facebook, SnapChat, Instagram, Etc. WhatsApp has raised the minimum age to 16 years old “(Willbold, 2021) As the data pointed out in this article, social media has become an indispensable part of People’s Daily life. Social media is not only used for daily communication, but also widely used for work communication, daily study and live broadcasting.

For example, in the typical social software, people use Zoom to conduct online meetings. This software enables people to start working and communicating at any time on the premise that they only have a computer. Instagram, Tiktok and other software that can play short videos are often used by some businesses to promote their products and increase their sales by taking advantage of the popularity of Internet videos. In addition, I think there are more software that can help students learn. Students can use Zoom, SnapChat or Whatsapp to communicate with their professors or study group members anytime and anywhere in real time. They can also use YouTube, Instagram or other websites to find the learning materials they need. Or post videos showing your learning achievements to discuss them with others who are also interested in the content.

But on the other hand, I think some of the social media in helping the students to learn when there are some problem that nots allow to ignore, such as for some families can’t afford to buy a computer or network cost family, these families are students will not be able to and all other online learning style of students can be normal use, for the convenience of online education resources.

“You’ve probably heard about some of the negative effects social media can have on our lives. And while they may be true, they by no means have to be the standard or even the norm. The truth is that social media can also be beneficial for society. It can help individuals connect and deepen their relationships. Social media also encourages students to learn and grow. And it can empower busines ses to build their audiences and boost their bottom line.” (HaShem, 2022) as HaShem said, although there are some risks in the use of social media, I think social media has a great positive impact on educators, lawyers, job seekers and so on.

In my last blog post, I described in some detail how social media can be very convenient for job seekers and recruiters. In this post, I want to highlight some of the risks that social media can pose to educators, as well as to them.

I am currently a junior at the department of economics, when I’m in the review of economic course, I have noticed on Youtube search module is about all I have to study for a learning video will be very much on the economy, some is a professor at the university of some well-known, some are some cartoon version there is no exact information of the names of the authors study video, While lamenting the convenience provided by free online learning videos to students taking me as an example, I also worry about some problems, such as whether the learning videos without the author’s real identity information are persuasive and whether some knowledge points are explained accurately.

Based on these concerns, I think, in dealing with the way besides Internet related regulators need to intensify supervision, public media literacy also need to strengthen the publisher, such as the use of some official identification ID number further certification issued by the government of the electronic identity on the Internet social media, such as video makers after released video, People can think of their videos as more credible.

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Hashem, H. (2022, June 6). 13 positive effects of social media on our society today. Kubbco. Retrieved July 17, 2022, from https://www.kubbco.com/13-positive-effects-of-social-media-on-our-society-today/

As I pointed out in the previous two articles, I think social media not only facilitates students’ study and daily work, but also presents different challenges to users.

For students who use social media for community learning, the benefits of social media are obviously convenient for their study. Students from different countries and regions can participate in the same community learning at the same time, which reduces their travel costs and time. In addition, They can participate in multiple regional learning communities in the same location.

At the same time, I also want to put forward a new advantage of social media in this blog, the inclusiveness of social media.

When I read a sophomore, I met on a class a girl with a social disorder, we need public speaking of this lesson, there are many homework, because there were no COVID – 19, so online teaching way is not popular, so she’s in front of the first public speech even afraid to shiver, based on her this kind of situation, Our professor suggested that she could record her speech online in a comfortable environment and then send the video link to the teacher, which undoubtedly solved her problem. This is also my initial understanding of online learning.

When it comes to using social media for recruitment, I think it is very beneficial for both employers and job seekers. Employers can learn basic personal information and internship experience of a job seeker from a job seeker’s homepage, and even the job seeker’s target position and expected salary range. This greatly saves the time for recruiters and job seekers to exchange basic information, because ten years ago, when online communication was not very popular, people still needed to fill in information at the desired company first, submit resumes, and wait for employers to review resumes before conducting interviews.

To sum up, social media can not only facilitate People’s Daily work and study, but even when they are looking for their favorite jobs. Some specific social media software can also help job seekers and employers quickly search their target information for comparison.

In my opinion, this map of visitors and residents is the map example that can most clearly distinguish the positioning of users in various social media software, and I think the study of visitors and residents map is very important, because with the popularization of Internet use, even some people who are against using the Internet have to use it sometimes.

For example, since 2020, in order to control and block the spread of COVID-19, schools have stopped offline face-to-face teaching and switched to online teaching. At this time, how to help students and teachers who are new users of the Internet to quickly adapt to the network environment is an issue that cannot be ignored.

I think if you want to categorize the use of social media, social media can be divided into two categories: assisting with work and making friends.
For the students, the information on the school website to register their students, such as the student account number and the name of the student photo these content to identify their own unique digital identity, the digital identity to help students on the school website browse their own learning progress, at the same time, the unique digital identity to ensure the privacy of students. In addition, when a student near graduation, they will face the problem of getting a job, and now looking for a job ways except in its official recommended by the school, students can log on to their interest in the company’s official website browse the recruiting information for delivery, in addition, led the British is also a employers and job seekers can online platform of choice to each other at the same time, Students and employers create their own digital identities to match target companies with employees. This online approach is more efficient than the traditional approach of sending resumes to different companies for interviews.

As I noted in my last blog, “The Necessary to Build Social Media Networks and Digital identities.” In The aftermath of COVID-19, Online communication provides a barrier-free communication platform for students and teachers, which is undoubtedly beneficial to users. But for some new users of the Internet, they may not be very skilled in how to avoid the leakage of information security on the Internet. The common practice is to create a new user of a website using complex passwords to avoid password cracking and how to identify fake comb identities on the Internet. These security problems require new Internet users to be more careful when operating their accounts.

With the development of economic and social globalization, frequent use of the Internet as a social tool has become inevitable in People’s Daily work, life and study. Along with the security issue of Internet privacy leakage, I believe that when we can establish a digital identity on social media network, the positive influence brought to us by the public networking is far more than its negative influence.

It is undeniable that how to ensure that every digital identity individual’s personal information on the Internet is not leaked is a long-term concern and has not been completely solved. “I never asked my future grandchildren for permission to offer their data to a scientific database. I made a decision about the privacy of my data that affects numerous people who are implicated but who have no say. And, in doing so, I learned information about them that they may not wish to know, let alone have me know. “(Danah) Information about other people’s records or our own has been leaked in places we haven’t noticed. This is the risk and harm brought by the public communication characteristics of social media while bringing us convenience.

On the other hand, the creation of digital identities and the widespread use of social media networks has been a huge boon. For example, during the two-year COVID-19 pandemic, normal offline learning and daily life were suspended to stop the spread of the disease, while online learning and working have provided a new way for all students, teachers and workers.

So overall, I think set up their own digital identity on social media network and the positive influence and public interaction is far outweigh the risks, while in the social media successfully build their own digital identity, because some areas or other people can’t immediately face to face communication can influence through this digital identity quick stereo understanding to each other’s career, Nicknames, even birthdays and hobbies, make it easier for people to find jobs remotely or study online.

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1.In what way are they likely to respond to the video on their own, e.g. make notes, do an activity, think about the topic (learner-generated)?

This video is about the development of Chinese characters. It talks about oracle bones and the first Emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang, who was first inscribed on the seal during the Qin Dynasty. Then the author of the video tells the story of Chinese farmers in the modern real events of emperor Qin Shi Huang ，terracotta warriors was discovered for the first time, I think see here, the students will be attracted to China’s historical sites, the students to respond to the most common way is probably to search online material, but more conditional students I think they will choose a trip to the field directly for sightseeing, This will play a positive role in promoting students’ Chinese learning in the future.

2.How would students get feedback on the activity that you set? What medium or technology would they and/or you use for getting and giving feedback on their activity?

At the end of the course, students will be required to give a group presentation and a quiz, which is made by using the “MIKe form”, a software that can see the answers submitted by the respondents in the background. I can see not only the overall score of the students, but also the specific question. This has a positive effect on how I give feedback to students.

3. How much work for you would that activity cause? Would the work be both manageable and worthwhile? Could the activity be scaled for larger numbers of students?

First of all, I don’t think I have much work to do. What I need to do is to make handouts for each class. Secondly, I need to keep in touch with my students after class and give feedback to their questions according to their needs. The last thing I need to do is to evaluate their overall learning in this semester according to their final presentation and quiz. Also, I will adjust my lecture progress and flow in real time according to students’ feedback in class to ensure that they can follow the course progress.

4. How could the video have been designed to generate more or better activity from viewers or students?

I think the first thing for a video to attract viewers is that the name of the video must be brief enough, so that the audience can understand the main body of the video after seeing the title. Secondly, some animations should be properly added in the video, so that students will not feel boring. In addition, there should be a comment section to make the viewer feel involved.

First of all, for interactive learning resources, I think the most important thing is to communicate with my learners. Just like the topic we discussed last time, spoon-feeding teaching has been abandoned in modern education, and teachers need to devise more methods to help students understand what they learn more vividly.

So I will take the way of real-time teaching, if there is a spread of sex is extremely strong, like the COVID – 19 pandemic and necessity of online teaching, I will try my best to take the way of fixed video lectures a week, considering that may be some students cannot have stability of the Internet to support their real-time online interaction, I will also take every course content to record the screen, In this way, it is not only convenient for students who cannot use the Internet smoothly to learn, but also convenient for students with language barriers (such as non-Native English, certain communication barriers between language and independent living) to watch and learn repeatedly.

In my blueprint, my teaching content includes letting students watch relevant learning videos on apps like YouTube. The reason for choosing this method is that YouTube has the function of translating subtitles, so that students can choose their mother tongue for reference and understanding. The app is available on both mobile phones and computers, with students without computers in mind.

Given the current network teaching environment in which to learn, I will stick to in a fixed time every week to create a Office hour to real-time online to solve the problem of the classmate, considering the students can’t enter the live real-time, I will also set up a discussion thread, the discussion here allows everyone to see, and it also avoids the if I did not reply in a timely manner to the questioner.

In the end, there will be a speech and a quiz to test students’ learning results of this class. I can see the answers submitted by all students in the background of the quiz, which enables me to collect the questions with a large error rate and make more detailed explanations in the later teaching.

The teaching method THAT I strongly disagree with is spoon-feeding teaching. First of all, this method does not take into account the feelings of students at all. It just forces students to learn the knowledge they need, which is a very stupid teaching method.

Each student to learn the new knowledge learning speed is not the same, because everyone has their part, are they not good at the part of the school at this time if the teacher take crammers, we do not rule out some students can quickly accept new knowledge, perhaps because they have learned in advance, but can not be ignored is the other part of the students, They may first to accept new knowledge, this lesson they can digest absorb things only to understand the concept of knowledge, but when the teacher for knowledge, they are afraid of later can’t keep up with, so can’t timely put forward questions and the teacher, only the problem of don’t understand or couldn’t keep up with the progress of the class accumulate more like a snowball.

To sum up, I agree with the method of thinking and learning at the same time. When teaching, teachers can let students adopt the interactive mode of group discussion, in which students will use their own association to think about the teaching content from multiple perspectives, because each student in the school group will put forward his or her own opinion on new knowledge. This avoids students’ answers focusing on only one related aspect (but at the structural understanding stage). Students in the group not only put forward different opinions, but also give full play to their own advantages and help each other to solve some basic problems, which also avoids students to put forward some simple and vague knowledge points.

In addition, I want to share my learning methods, I’ll before class preview course content first, here I also recommend so the teacher can put each class PPT ahead early learning website), because my native language is not English, so is inevitable in the process of studying in Canada I will meet some of the words I don’t know, So I can make sure that I can understand what I’m listening to. Secondly, I will also use the method of associating familiar content to take notes to help myself to remember new knowledge points more quickly. At the end of the class, I would actively communicate with my classmates in groups. In addition to communicating with the teacher, I think communicating with team members is another way to solve problems.

During this period of study, I learned constructivism, behaviorism and cognitivism. Mastering these three learning methods is very necessary for us to learn new knowledge.

Learnists believe that learning is a link between stimulus and response. Their basic assumption is that behavior is the learner’s response to environmental stimuli. Teachers need to master ways to shape and correct student behavior and create an environment for students to eliminate inappropriate behavior as best they can.

Cognitivists believe that human cognition is the result of the interaction between external stimuli and internal psychological processes of cognitive subjects. The task of teachers is not only to instill knowledge to students, but to stimulate students’ interest in learning and learning motivation. Students are the subjects who take the initiative to selectively process the information provided by external stimuli.

In addition, the constructivists’ view includes two parts. One is the view of knowledge. According to objectivism, things exist objectively and knowledge is the representation of things. The second is the view of students. Every student is an individual, and their understanding of each problem is different. Therefore, the differences of each learner constitute a new and valuable learning resource.

As for me, I think constructivism has been more widely applied in modern education. Nowadays, teachers tend to group students into groups. In group learning, middle school students can listen to other students’ opinions and ideas, which also cultivates their divergent thinking. It is also a good help to students’ creativity.