Educational Implication of Reflection Activities Using SNS in Cooperative Learning

This study aims to verify educational effects through students’ reflection activities by applying Social Network Service(SNS), recently started to be used as one of teaching-learning methods to cooperative learning situations. Specifically, for cooperative learning, it proposes to figure out how reflection activities including sharing, conversations and discussions about prompt and ongoing learning contents in virtual space of SNS affect on students’ learning and to explore educational availability and methods of SNS. For subjects of the study, 6th grade students of elementary school in Icheon, South Korea were selected and both experimental group and control group consist of 20 students, respectively. Reflection activities using SNS were conducted in the experimental group for 6 weeks in total. Classting, an aspiring educational SNS tool was used as the instrument for the study and students’ impressions were qualitatively analyzed during the research. As the result of the study, the effect of academic achievement in cooperative learning became higher through reflection activities, there was positive effect by applying SNS to learning situations and educational implications and possibilities of SNS were suggestible.