NORMATIVE, INSTRUMENTAL AND PEDAGOGIC CONDITIONS FOR STUDENTS’ SAFE WORK IN SOCIAL NETWORKING

Social networking sites nowadays are powerful means of organizing the collaboration, team work, distribution of information and promotion of ideas. The educational potential of social networking sites may be revealed through the following factors: transition from the passive consumption of the contents to its producing by means of the technologies of the communities, blogs, forums implemented in the services under consideration; mastering the new ways and rules of communication relevant to the virtual environment; development of the skills to search for information and use it when solving some particular tasks; development of the ability to get the information and knowledge independently; development of the ability to study not only at educational institutions but also in other places using the alternative sources of information regardless of time and place. Most of modern schoolchildren and students have accounts at least in one social networking service - the environment of social network is familiar and comfortable for them. However, researchers often mention the dangers that the participants, children in particular, of social network services may face. The following categories of dangers are found out: propagation of negative information (political extremism, national, religious, gender superiority and inequality, materials that display violence, etc.); manipulation of user’s mind and development of wrong sense guidelines; vulnerability of personal user’s data; copyright infringement; Internet addiction. The article represents a thorough description of such issues of using social networking services by students as the availability of negative information, illegal use of personal data of a profile, copyright infringement, distribution of false information. The possible ways to solve these problems at the normative, instrumental and pedagogic levels are determined. The normative level determines the requirements of the legislation of the Russian Federation to elaboration of a social networking service and organization of its use. Meanwhile, regarding the problems under consideration the legislative aspects of solution may be reflected in the local normative and legal documents of educational institutions: the charter, rules and regulations, privacy policy, regulations for safe use of the Internet etc. At the instrumental level the requirements to the functionality of the service that provides safe use of social networking websites by students are determined. The pedagogic level is represented by the models of teachers and students’ activities on social networking services.

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