'A Vision Of Students Today And' How Higher Education Uses

It is fascinating how the Internet is changing people's lives in today’s world. Anyone is able to promptly do research and gather information on the Internet. With the click of a button you can have the data you need in less than ten seconds by searching for it on a search engine, such as Google. Since just about anyone has access to social media in today’s society, it makes it very easy for students to get distracted while in class or while doing their homework. Our world has been given so many different aids of communication which makes its very easy for us to connect with anyone.

College student and the social media, in many ways both good and bad a college student can be affected by the social media. It can be an opportunity to prove how you really are as a person and potentially be accepted to college, or you can be denied admittance and lose the opportunity to study at the college you have been hoping for.

There are however many students who do not use social media or who do significantly well in other areas of their studies despite of social media. The authors arguments do not account for those students. Some students who use social media use it briefly

The purpose of the study was to examine social media use among college students and how it

Sharing and expressing ideas will be much more simple with the use of social media. “With the right strategy, social media can make studying more collaborative and efficient” (McGraw-Hill Education). Students can now freely promote themselves online and express their ideas to one another. Working on projects through social media is unquestionably faster, simpler, and

As stated by the expertise of computers science, how it has identified how out technologies has created a tool for our society and worldwide to enable the people across the world to learn and utilizes the sources in schools, jobs, family and friends and communication. However, communication, build, and advances and educate. Social media it is forms of social networking, that allows people and children across the world to create a profile information, use of photos, videos, and messaging. Statistically speaking that network user spend too much time on Facebook websites, Instagram, and do to others websites that is available for users. These websites are also used for business used in marketing and personal use for people to connect with their family and friends. Social media has become an important technology that has been developed and designed for personal user and user of marketing in production Although, with all the sources of electronics, computers, which has change a lot on brain functioning, because children do learn new things and takes in the knowledge of what they have learned to utilize on social media.

Social media is going to be the downfall of society! Which is apparently what many critics believe about the extensive use of this luxury. Social media has been getting lots of backlash from naysayers, claiming that it is ruining the modern generation, and it only negatively impacts the brain. However, There are many benefits from the media of the social type, that outweigh the negative connotation it normally receives from critics. Social media is able to educate students on politics, help teachers and students collaborate with each other, and has many other social advantages. Because of social media, school education is a lot more efficient and informative. After George Middle School in Portland, OR introduced a social media program to engage students, “grades went up by 50%, chronic absenteeism went down by 33%, and 20% of students school-wide voluntarily completed extra-credit assignments” (Kessler) according to an article from Sarah Kessler, a published writer for Mashable. Social media has opened up many job opportunities and is able to increase socialization in teens and adults. Social media is an amazing way for everyone to communicate with their loved ones, even “the Red Cross urged witnesses to tell family members they were safe via social media outlets” (Hughes and Pesce) according to an article co-written by Trevor Hughes and Carolyn Pesce, writers for USA Today. From the increase in socialization, the spread of information and awareness of issues can reach

In addition to this Poore (2013) argued that the new social media has reformed the traditional media resources such as the usage of newspapers, books and magazines have reduced due to the availability of information on online resources such as Moodle and WebCT. Hence, it also provides intellectual benefits such as children can learn how to analyze, interpret and synthesize the information. Okoro (2012) acknowledge that integrating social media technologies into higher education can enhance ongoing communication between teacher and student which helps in promoting collaborative learning activities. His findings laid stress on effectiveness of teaching and student learning outcomes with an appropriate example of understanding the usage of electronic media in making strategies and practicing skills in business

4 EFFECTS OF SOCIAL MEDIA ON COLLEGE STUDENTS Statement of Problem To address the issue of the effectiveness of using social networking, the first question raised in this study is: for what purpose is the student utilizing social networking? Research on this topic will start to reveal social networking sites are simply part of how students interact with each other with no apparent impact on grades. Thus, the objective of this research is to explore the advantages and disadvantages of students’ use of social networking for study. The main purpose of this research is to expand on previous research, explore the relationship between the effects of social networking and students’ study efficiency, and to determine if social media interfering with students’ academic lives. Research Questions: Which is the most popular social media site for students? What is the amount of time students spend utilizing social media in various academic processes? Review of the Literature College students have great interest in social media. For the purpose of this study, social media was defined as Facebook, YouTube, Blogs, Twitter, MySpace or LinkedIn (Martin, 2008). Although, providing a detailed perspective on social media use among university students and underscoring that such use can produce both

For a student also has an obligation to learn. Here social media play a role to make someone postpone the work. What is unfortunate that many students today are shifting their focus to social media activities. Not only at home, when at school any place that should be used as a place to study is sometimes disturbed when a student more often use his handphonenya in the classroom for activities outside of learning.

Social media can be more beneficial than harmful in the educational field. When it comes to social media there is no doubt that the Digital Native are the experts of the subject, they are the ones who grew up with the technology in hand. Our generation thinks and acts different ways than generations before. Technology is now forcing the Academic department to change lecture style class. We use social media to communicate with people we love, to share with people our thoughts and also to share a piece of our life. College students never consider using social media for education. Twitter is one of the many social media sites that when its use for academic purposes helps students be more engage and get higher GPA.

Social media is a crucial component in society, but should it be used in education? Critics may answer this question with a definite no, while advocates support the idea. Social media is illustrated by many social online websites that are used for communication by large groups of people. This topic is controversial in the world today because educational leaders are taking new approaches to learning.

Social media has brought lots of changes to our lives. Some positive changes include interaction and communication with others. Thus bringing people with common interests or friends together. It has also promoted education & news to us via social media where people share information via links, reviews or applications As Jansson (n.d.) shows, “Students enjoy educational

In our present generations, there a lot of technologies have been deployed to make things easier. One of them is the Social Networking Sites it is very useful in many ways, and it is easy to use by anyone apparently most of them is the students, because there are lot of benefits that they can have through it, it can be popularity pertaining to the passion of the people in the present technology, another one is the communication through different people and also

Department of Technical and Vocational Education, Islamic University of Technology 1 E-mail: sgyasad@yahoo.co.uk , abmamun@iut-dhaka.edu2, chekum@iutdhaka.edu3 Abstract With the creation of Social Networking Sites, colleges and universities across the globe have been playing catch-up with students. This new technology carries much weight as a new medium for students to build social connections and grow as members of their