Cyber bullying and Online Harassment: Cyber bullying is deliberately using digital media to communicate false, embarrassing, or hostile information about another person. It is the most common online risk for all teens and isa peer-to-peer risk. Although ―online harassment‖ is often used interchangeably with the term ―cyber bullying,‖ it is actually a different entity. Current data suggest that online harassment is not as common as offline harassment, and participation in social networking sites does not put most children at risk of online harassment. On the other hand, cyber bullying is quite common, can occur to any young person online, and can cause profound psychosocial outcomes including depression, anxiety, severe isolation, and, tragically, suicide.
Sexting: Sexting can be defined as ―sending, receiving, or forwarding sexually explicit messages, photographs, or images via cell phone, computer, or other digital devices.‖18 Many of these images become distributed rapidly via cell phones or the Internet. This phenomenon does occur among the teen population; a recent survey revealed that 20% of teens have sent or posted nude or seminude photographs or videos of themselves. Some teens who have engaged in sexting have been threatened or charged with felony child pornography charges, although some states have started characterizing such behaviors as juvenile-law misdemeanors. Additional consequences include school suspension for perpetrators and emotional distress with accompanying mental health conditions for victims. In many circumstances, however, the sexting incident is not shared beyond a small peer group or a couple and is not found to be distressing at all.
Facebook Depression: Researchers have proposed a new phenomenon called ―Facebook depression,‖ defined as depression that develops when preteens and teens spend a great deal of time on social media sites, such as Facebook, and then begin to exhibit classic symptoms of depression. Acceptance by and contact with peers is an important element of adolescent life. The intensity of the online world is thought to be a factor that may trigger depression in some adolescents. As with offline depression,preadolescents and adolescents who suffer from Facebook depression are at risk for social isolationand sometimes turn to risky Internet sites and blogs for ―help‖ that may promote substance abuse, unsafe sexual practices, or aggressive or self destructive behaviors.
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When Internet users visit various Websites, they can leave behind evidence of which sites they have visited. This collective, ongoing record of one‘s Web activity is called the ―digital footprint.‖One of the biggest threats to young people on social media sites is to their digital footprint and future reputations. Preadolescents and adolescents who lack an awareness of privacy issue soften post inappropriate messages, pictures, and videos without understanding that ―what goes online stays online.‖ As a result, future job sand college acceptance may be putinto jeopardy by inexperienced andrash clicks of the mouse. Indiscriminate Internet activity also cans make children and teenagers easier for marketer sand fraudsters to target.
Influence of Advertising on Buying
Many social media sites display multiple advertisements such as banner ads, behavior ads (ads that target people on the basis of their Web-browsing behavior), and demographic-based ads (ads that target people on the basis of a specific factor such as age, gender, education, marital status, etc)that influence not only the buying tendencies of preadolescents and adolescents but also their views of what is normal. It is particularly important for parents to be aware of the behavioral ads, because they are common on social media sites and operate by gathering information on the person using a site and then targeting that person‘s profile to influence purchasing decisions. Such powerful influences start as soon as children begin to go online and post. Many online venues are now prohibiting ads on sites where children and adolescents are participating. It is important to educate parents, children, and adolescents about this practice so that children can develop into media-literate consumers and understand how advertisements can easily manipulate them.
Conclusion: Considering all of the above pros and cons, it is necessary to develop certain regulations over the use of such social networking sites, especially for high school and college students. But still, students should get the choice to spend time socializing in an effective way. It should not hamper their school or college performance, and it should be kept in mind that social networking sites create virtual worlds that drastically differ from reality. Students should develop the cognitive and intuitive ability to analyze how much time they want to spend on social media. It is left up to the students to decide what really matters in their life and how much of this virtual life translates to real life.
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Smt. Poonam B. Waghmare
College of Educaton, Nashik, Email ID: [email protected]
Abstract
In the 21st century, Education faculties make efforts to find combination of students, faculties and system to manage their learning programs. Learning management system is becominginteracted with course registration, administration, documentation, tracking, reporting and delivery of educational courses as well as evaluation of students through exams. LMS is focused on acquiring the knowledge using the help of technologies. In India education is depends on classroom teaching for syllabus coverage. Instructors put in more efforts to manage, store and reuse the course material for repeating the course in the next semester. This system shall act as a central space for student and teacher interaction outside classroom. In the LMS process, instructor can upload course content and the student can access the same using their login. LMS is the most important application for teaching and learning.
INTRODUCTION: Quality education plays a vital role in today‘s competitive scenario. In this globalized world technology has affected almost every aspect of life. In technological world application of computers to education is such as computer-managed instruction (CMI), integrated learning system (ILS), computer based instruction (CBI), computer assisted instruction (CAI), computer assisted instruction (CAI), etc. These applications focused on drill and practice activities, tutorials and personal instructions. Twenty first centuries training needs to be easy and accessible. A learning management system (LMS) gives opportunity to make, distribute and track training anywhere and on any device. From the last 20 years, digital frameworks are available for managing curriculum, training material and evaluation tools. The LMS allows anyone to create, track, manage and distribute learning material of any kind. So it helps to create effective online teaching learning material in a personal collaborative environment. It is powerful, secure and open platform which is used for E-Learning. So this article focused on learning management system and its benefit to management, instructor and student.
LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM: It is an open source of software application. This is used for administration, documentation, tracking, reporting and delivery of educational courses as well as training programs. System help the instructor deliver learning material to the students, administer tests and other assignments, track student progress and manage record keeping. Some LMSs help identify progress towards learning and training goals. LMSs are focused on online learning material delivery and support a range of uses, acting as a platform for online courses, also used learning methods such as blended learning and flipped classroom. LMS is used to plan, deliver, publish and manage online courses. Students or participants login to the LMS by using browser. They can select courses and starts their online study. Alternatively an instructor can assign courses based on student‘s needs. An LMS allows instructor and administrates to track course completions, performance of students. All students‘ activities in the LMS can be tracked. These activities are useful for evaluation, competency management and other related functions.
COMPONENTS OF AN LMS: There are many varieties of LMS. Everyone is unique and possesses a feature set according to needs of a trainer and educators. There are some elements can be found in many eLearning.
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1. Rosters: For tracking attendance and for sending invitations to trainer or class students a digital roll call sheet is available.
2. Registration: The device have ability to observe, check or keeping a continuous record of a process.
3. Documentation: Course or Curricular content, material or documents can be upload and manage.
4. Multiple Device: Desktops, mobile or tablets are used for delivery of Course or Curricular content web based communication.
5. Availability of Instructor: Multiple teachers or experts from across the world are available for remote participation.
6. Course Schedule: Composition and publication of course schedule, deadlines, assessment and tests.
7. Engagement of Students: Email, Whatsapp and discussion forum etc are used for communication between and among students.
8. Evaluation: Tests, quizzes and exams are conducted for assessment and testing knowledge. 9. Grading and Scoring: Advanced tracking and charting are used for grading and scoring of
student‘s performance.
CHARACTERISTICS OF AN LMS : Today an LMS is a source of hosting, assigning, managing, reporting and evaluating elearning courses. It can be used for a variety of educational purposes.
1. Managing users, roster, instructors, and generating reports. 2. Provide course schedule.
3. Messaging and notification by students.
4. Assessments can be handling by the students pre and post testing. 5. Certification and display students score and transcripts.
BENEFITS OF LMS FOR MANAGEMENT, INSTRUCTOR AND STUDENT: