USE OF SOCIAL NETWORKS IN PREPARATION OF FUTURE TEACHERS

Abstract

The article considers the possibility of using social networks in the process of learning, identifies the advantages and disadvantages of their application in the educational process, analyzes the real state of student registration in social networks, the frequency of their communication with social networking means, determines the number of social networks in which students are registered, priority devices for work with social services, popularity of social networks among students of the Vinnitsa State Pedagogical University named after Mikhail Kotsyubinsky, and also, the proportion of students using social networking with the educational purpose whom teachers offered to use social networks to support the learning process and the proportion of students who are proposing to introduce social networks into the learning process has been established. The analysis of the obtained data makes it possible to determine the level of activity of students and teachers in the issue of the introduction of social networks and mobile devices in the process of knowledge acquisition and skills development by modern applicants of higher education, and also indicates the level of youth activity in the issue of reforming educational technologies, the introduction of modern methods of organizing the educational process and his support. The results of the study underline the active attitude of young people to the reform of higher education, but prove that the students themselves are not always willing to actively engage in educational initiatives, some of them prefer passive communication and photo viewing. Based on the data obtained from the questionnaire, it can be concluded that social networks are not used for educational purposes systematically. Students, for the most part, consider social networks as an opportunity to seek information, that is, as a peculiar search engine. Only one per cent of respondents consider social networks as an opportunity to create an educational community for communication with like-minded people.