Teamwork for Learning Chemistry Using Online Social Networking Resources Education without a Teacher E. Zorova, M. Akhmetov

Teamwork for Learning Chemistry Using Online Social

Networking Resources

Education without a Teacher

E. Zorova, M. Akhmetov

The 21st century is the time of information and communication technologies

• Today we get a lot of information from many sources: papers, magazines, books, TV, and also from the Internet. In order to turn this information into knowledge it is necessary for each of us to be able to process it: to select the sense from that information noise, to turn it into knowledge and, on its bases to develop our own skills. Understanding of these tasks is reflected in the New State Standards of education requiring from postgraduates to be ready to continue their education and self-development constantly

New time dictates new purposes to education

• Today modern students use the Internet very actively. However, the Internet includes not only useful, but also useless and even harmful information. How to defend students from any negative information? How to make their surfing in the World Web effective? We suppose that we have the answer to this question: students need learning activities. The problem is how to achieve it? The main task of our research is to find some ways of improving students’ learning activities using the Internet for studying chemistry.

Chemistry is a special part of human knowledge

• It is obvious that chemistry is a special part of human knowledge which is a very difficult subject for many students. To achieve a success in chemistry students must have not only a certain amount of chemical knowledge but also understand chemical phenomena and describe them using the means of the chemical language: chemical formulas, equations of chemical changes.

Students use the Web for searching information

• More and more students use the Web for searching information about substances and chemical reactions, but only little part of websites users is able to achieve success in learning chemistry. Free web education has both advantages and disadvantages. Students can study at their own pace and at a convenient time, but they need ability to do exercises without teachers’ support. Our research let us understand what a teacher can do for students’ success in learning chemistry. We know school students spend a lot of time on the Internet. Many students spend many hours every day for communicating on online networking sites. If students had this time for learning they could get better results in their self-education.

The possibilities of teamwork using online social networking sites for preparing for their Chemistry exams.

• In our work we researched the possibilities of teamwork using online social networking sites for preparing for their Chemistry exams. Students like communicating on online social networking resources without adults. So, the teacher had created an initiative group from the students, who worked as organizers on the Internet account. The teacher controlled the educational activities of the students on online social networking service through this initiative group. The students of this group invited guys from other schools who were interested in chemistry for the Chemistry exam preparing. The students solved exam problems, asked each other if they had not understand anything. After two weeks of such work the chemistry teacher noticed the progress in knowledge of the students. By this time the students had already had the first success and then they put more efforts in learning.

before the exam • Two weeks before the exam the team

began solving exam training tests. At the beginning the group solved the exam test for 50 minutes. Soon the team needed only 15 minutes! Many students have even been surprised at their results. All the participants have passed the exam successfully. After the exam, graduates who were included in this teamwork continued communicating, asking questions on different topics and now they hope that in the future this form will help them in their education and life

1st Question: I am studying chemistry

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Эмпирическое значение критерия Хи-квадрат 1,2525, критическое 5,991. Характеристики сравниваемых выборок совпадают на уровне значимости 0.05

Эмпирическое значение критерия Вилкоксона-Манна-Уитни 0,6442, критическое 1,96. Характеристики сравниваемых выборок совпадают на уровне значимости 0.05

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Эмпирическое значение критерия Хи-квадрат 41,9575, критическое 5,991. Достоверность различий характеристик сравниваемых выборок составляет 95%

Эмпирическое значение критерия Вилкоксона-Манна-Уитни 4,8091, критическое 1,96. Достоверность различий характеристик сравниваемых выборок составляет 95%

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Эмпирическое значение критерия Фишера 7,7355, критическое 1,6449. Достоверность различий характеристик сравниваемых выборок составляет 95%


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Perspective on future research

• As the research showed students can successfully use teamwork on online social networking resources for learning Chemistry, but theoretical didactic and methodological aspects of such education still require extensive studies

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