Share Paper: Technology Binds or Blinds? - Social Networks through a Pedagogical Lens

1. Tami Seifert, Kibbutzim College of Education, Technology, and Art, Israel

Abstract: The technological changes constitute a challenge to the education system and induce re-thinking about teaching methods, pedagogical perceptions, learning space organization and teachers and learners' role. Technology seems to have a great impact on the social lives of the users. Social media drag antagonism and have been commonly associated with “wasted time”, on the other hand, media technologies continue to offer spaces of both meaningful and necessary communication. The thin line between free use of classroom technology and its pedagogical application in real time strengthens the ambivalent attitude. Surveys show that pupils do not wait for the education system. Rather, ...