The Importance Of Social Media In Education

In conclusion, social media could be helpful in some ways and awful in other ways. Over the past 10 years’ social media use has increased tremendously, mostly by teens. As well as the long term effects on your health, there are many pros and cons associated with social media use.

Even though social media could have an negative impact on students . Some of the best resources comes out of Social Media sites.From little things to huge opportunities, Technology and Social media will continue to help those of any kind. Social Media apps such as facebook instagram, and twitter could help while looking into jobs, this could help teens start to get prepared for the real world. Many

Social Media is a controversial topic. For this reason, many people have argued whether social media is positive or negative. Nevertheless, there is more evidence supporting the idea that social media has had positive implications on society. Reasons for this include that social media can help your career and that it can aid adolescents when it comes to socializing. However, there are several other individuals who hold on to a different view.

Does the name Mark Zuckerburg mean anything to you? If you are in higher education administration it should. When he attended Harvard University, he was a cunning college student who hacked into the universities computer system. He stole information about students who currently attended the university such as photos and ID information. As a result of his illegal endeavors, he created a website called Facemash and encouraged site visitors to rate people participating in the website as “hot or not.” This was his first effort at advancing the world in social media. His second effort was creating a study tool to upload images of Roman art, which allowed each student to write a commentary underneath. Both of these internet successes led to the creation of a known website called Facebook. This website privileges over half a billion users around the world. In higher education, social media is not a new phenomenon. When students use it correctly, there is evidence it can greatly enhance student learning, but social media can have serious cognitive effects on college students possibly even resulting in the decline of their GPA (Magolda, 2011).

These drawbacks include too many people being reliant to talking online rather than in person and not verbally communicating with friends even though they are in the same room. Jasmine Fowlkes shows the reality in how social media is affecting our new generation through her article, “Viewpoint: Why Social Media is Destroying our Social Skills.” After discussing the results conducted by several researchers, Fowlkes states,“As more generations are born into the social age, social media will continue to be the favored communication form among young people. However, this shift may begin to affect their ability to properly communicate in person with peers.” Many start to rely on applications on our devices to talk to people, but this results in less verbal communication. In addition, Kelly-Fay’s Talktrack research study showed that conversations held in person are much more impactful than on social media. Rather than making social media a huge part of your life, Fowlkes wishes that people would look up from their phones and engage more with others since that could change their lives.

Social media is defined as websites and applications used for social networking, in other words it is a way for people to interact and express themselves without being face to face. Social media has become a large part of the life of teenagers, who make up most of the population of people who are subjected to using social media in their daily lives. Many college students are faced with balancing their social lives with school and even athletics making priorities a big dilemma for them. College students in America are affected in many ways by social media whether it be their social life, their happiness, or their grades.

Alexandra Ossola’s “A New Kind of Social Anxiety in the Classroom,” discusses the consequences of technology use on student’s social skills. Ossola argues, “some academics fear that greater access to technology could exacerbate social anxiety among teens” (Ossola). Ossola sites Tamyra Pierce, a journalism professor at California State University, Fresno, stating “If we are glued to technology 24/7, it’s going to have an effect on social skills-it’s just natural” (qtd. in Ossola). This idea has been confirmed by the exponential increase in the diagnosis of social anxiety and depression, as well as, the early onset of their symptoms. These disorders affect every aspect of a person’s life, from academics, to relationships, to self-esteem. Pierce conducted a study in 2009 which tested the relationship between the use of technology and social anxiety in teenagers. The results showed that “the more the students spent using online communication methods, the more likely they were to show symptoms of anxiety about communicating face-to-face,” and that “teenage girls showed much more anxiety than did their male peers” (qtd in Ossola). These results confirm that technology is exacerbating the deficits in social skills. However, technology has been so intertwined in learning and teaching complex topics that it will be difficult, if not impossible, to separate the two. The use itself is not the issue. The overuse and misuse of technology has become the issue. There needs to become a balance between face-to-face communication and technology

Social Media connecting everyone or creating an illusion: An Annotated Bibliography Research Question: In what way does social media allow us to connect? Social Media has deteriorated writing yet has succeeded in connecting All four authors agree that social Media has allowed students to connect in way that were previously unheard of. The internet has a strong way of rewarding continual use, human interaction is one of those rewards.

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

Educators are using social media as professional communities of practice, as learning communities and as a platform to share interesting stories about topics that are being studied in class by students. These prospects make social media exciting for higher education as it provides for more interaction with features such as posting of images, videos or a text response in a conversation and where anyone in the social network can engage with the content, (Johnson, Becker, Estrada, & Freeman, 2014).

Third, social media doesn’t help for their studies or talents. People think social media is good places to show their talents or works what they did. For example, they argue people can share video clip what they playing the instruments or dancing or singing. It is, however, for people who already good to do those. If you are not good at those things and if you spend time to do social media, it would be hard to progress your talents. I did surveys about relationships between using social media and studying last semester. Most students answered using social media is not helpful to study. Also, students who got good grades spend just a little time to use social media. Using social media

Are we becoming less human with the passing of each day? Have we become too dependent on technology, specifically social media? In this day and age, people have different views on social media. They question its true purpose and its effect on society as a whole. With that said, although there are many thoughts concerning the topic/trend of social media something that is undoubtedly true is that social media plays an active role in the lives of the majority of people. Whether in a positive or negative way, social media influences the lives of all people. However this paper focuses on the effect of social media on college students. It addresses both the positive and negative effects of social media on those in college; focusing on a student’s academic efficiency, social interactive skills, and overall productivity.

Jon Russell once said, “Social Media presents a huge opportunity for schools, universities and other educational organizations to reach out and connect with students and prospective students”. With no doubt, social media has influenced the way students are educated today. For those of you who do not know the exact definition of social media, the social media means ways of sharing information, opinions, images, videos using the Internet, especially social networking sites. Because of the Internet, people started finding ways to socialize through social websites and exchange information. Popular social network on the Internet such as YouTube became a sensation for me ever since I became a student in college. Today social media can be used for educational purposes. The ways social media is changing education has affected how the students express themselves, behave, and interact with each other.

Social media are the most ordinarily used media to connect with the world because of its many advantages and benefits. Many students are already involved in social networks and using it their daily activities including educational purposes. Social media have changed the ways of learning and providing pieces of information on education. It has been used in education nowadays more than ever and showing beneficial results out of that. Uses of social media are increasing continuously in education and both students and educators are becoming dependent on it. The reason behind this is, it is simple to access, effortless to use and easy availability. Among many of the advantages of social media in education, applying it for communication purposes, sharing class materials, files etc. for classroom projects as well as uses of QR codes are some of the leading ones.