脸书在教学与学习中的整合

在这个信息时代，人们与各种新技术相互作用，不同职位的人都试着用他们来帮助自己的工作并期望得到好的结果。教育者也希望通过应用这些技术，在教育过程中吸引和激励学习者，以使教学和学习更有效。这些技术工具之一是社交网站。在这些社交网站中，脸书是最受欢迎的，它吸引了一大批青年人，他们用脸书来传播和虚拟社会互动。因此，许多教师都在试图利用脸谱网来提高学习的效果，，让学习者觉得学习更有趣。这些年轻人参与脸书的使用，并在这个虚拟环境中花费大量的时间。另一方面，对教育者来说，了解哪种学习方式更能从这种技术中获益，或者不同学习风格的人花费在脸书上的时间是否有巨大的差异十分重要。

脸书是全球活跃用户使用最多的社交网络，由马克 扎克伯格在2004年2月创立，原本只是哈佛内部的社交网站。这个社交网站能在很短的时间内吸引一大批用户，尤其是年轻人。至今它在全世界已经拥有超过5亿用户。事实上，脸书被定义为“一个帮助人们分享信息，与朋友、家人和工作伙伴更有效交流的社会工具。”

In this information age people are interacting with a variety of new technologies that people in different positions try to use them to facilitate their jobs and come up with good results. Educators are also tending to use those technology tools for more effective teaching and learning by engaging and motivating learners in the learning process. One of those technological tools is social networking websites. Among social networking websites facebook is the most popular one which has sucked a huge amount of youth to use it for communication and virtual social interaction. As a consequence, many teachers are attempting to make a use of facebook to improve the learning out comes and make the learning more interesting to the learners regarding to the youth engagement in the facebook usage and the massive amount of time which they spend in this virtual environment. On the other hand, it is crucial for the educators to know which type of learning style can benefit more from using this kind of technology or whether there is a big difference in willingness of different learning styles for spending time in facebook or not.

Facebook is the most used social network by worldwide active users which was founded by Mark Zuckerberg in February 2004 as Harvard-only social network site. This social network website was able to attract a huge amount of users specially youth in a short period of time. Right now it has more than 500 million active users around the world. Actually, Facebook is defined as "a social utility that helps people share information and communicate more efficiently with their friends, family, and coworkers" (facebook.com). Although at first facebook was launched as Harvard social network but developed to involve and engage other high school students, professionals inside corporate networks, and eventually everyone who have access to the online world (Cassidy, 2006).

Facebook allows users to create a personal profile while allowing for information sharing, communication, photo albums, creating a friends list, forming or applying to social interest groups, and different kinds of online games. In summary, Facebook members can share their photos, send messages, chat, tag themselves or others on photos, write on friends' walls, join groups, create new groups, share ideas in group discussions ,add kinds of applications, and play games in Facebook. Facebook has been accessed by millions of users in a short time while becoming a part of users' daily lives (Ellison, Steinfield, & Lampe, 2007; Selwyn, 2007a).

Some functions and capabilities of facebook such as enabling peer feedback, goodness of fit with social context, and interaction tools make facebook an educational tool (Mason, 2006).

Learning Styles

The notion of learning styles is all about the ways which a learner prefers to use when he/she is learning and remembering new knowledge (Funda Dag & Aynur Ge?er, 2009). Furthermore, Simsek (2001) stated that learning style is a group of factors which determines how the students psychologically perceive, interact and response to learning environments. According to Felder (1996), every learner prefers to learn differently. Some learners can learn in an interactive relationship with their friends and teachers and experiencing things by themselves, the others learn with a visual presence of materials and information, and some learners prefer to make use of written materials and they agree that verbal explanations are more helpful to them. Thus knowing about the learning styles of the learners is important either for educators or learners. It could be useful for teachers because they will get a clear idea about how to teach individuals with different learning preferences and also it would be effective for learners to know how they learn better and easier. Indeed, there are some popular models to categorize learning styles such as; David kolb's model, Honey and mumford's model, Anthony Gregorc's model, Sudbury model of democratic education, and Fleming's VAK/VARK model of learning styles. For the aim of this study Fleming's VAK/VARK survey was used to explore different learning styles of research participants and see how different learning styles spend time in facebook. VARK survey tool was created in 1998 to explore individuals' different learning styles. Alkhasawneh, Mrayyan, Docherty, Alashram, Yousef, (2007), described;

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