The Positive Benefits Of Social Media In Education

In today’s world, technology is everywhere. There are lots of different types of social media which are used by all types of people. This is true everywhere, except for schools where social media is often blocked. Schools should allow social media to be used for teaching and learning purposes in all their high schools. This would help students and teachers communicate better and make learning more interesting.

The three most significant new developments in society during my lifetime thus far would be: technology, social media, and education. For my father, the three most significant new developments in society throughout his lifetime would be the Soviet/Afghan War, migration, and technology.

The use of social media tools in the classroom must be managed by someone. This person needs to understand the impact of social media usage on the school whether positive or negative.

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.

New ways of communication over the Internet has grown severely and have brought negative and positive responses to the society around us. In particular, these social networks have become popular in the teen and young adult age group. Social networks has also been popular in unsatisfactory new reports where teens have been cyber bullying, posting inappropriate pictures, and promoting serious cases such as suicide. Social networks include, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, Facebook, Wikipedia,Yik Yak, Pinterest, MySpace, YouTube, Tumblr, Blogs, etc. In Researching my argument, I 've found many bad news stories about social networks, but not many positive stories. Social networks are represented as bad influence towards our society. Although some people use social networks in a negative way, there are others who use them positively and my argument will explain how. To support my argument I will use Twitter as an example of how social media can be used in a positive way by promoting writing practices, informing others, and being a sponsor of literacy.

I read through Horizon Report is very helpful and Social networking is referring to the phenomenon of interaction and community of people with common interests. Specific actions exchange to get to know one another and the common purpose that exists between the parties to exchange and social networking, and cultural factors that can bind to one another they are needed. In recent years, there appears to be a phenomenon of social networking, virtualization and accelerate the development of another technology such as the Internet or the Web. Technology is good dealing social networking in the 21th century for the young children who is learning the device about the social media it is better for the children how the environment about our society now. Even every classroom has the devices about media and technology about the faster learning it. If you show it to the children in the classroom they will be concentrated more about the subjects that they are learning and it would be easier for the children to understand what they are learning about it. But for the teachers it would have positive and negative opinions about the media learning. Because the teachers must have learned the material how to work with the technology. I think all the teacher need to have some kinds of technique about the media teaching so that the students can learn very effectively about the materials that teacher are teaching about it.

As we are aware, students use social media during their spare time. However, we live in a world today that social media can make a great impact on eLearning. Social media can become useful if educators know how to use them correctly. There are several social media sites out there that help integrate technology. While many educators get frustrated when students have their phones and other devices out, this is a perfect opportunity to take advantage of this and allow them to learn with their devices. “Social media can be a useful tool to use for educational purposes” (2016, para.1). Educators can create a Facebook group page for the class. It is important that learning remains fun. The educator can post something funny that will encourage students that learning is still important and can be enjoyable. If a student is absent one day, the educator can easily post notes and anything that was taught in class for that day. Creating threads has become very popular. This is a great way to start a discussion and students can interact with one another. Students can easily blog for points. Blogging is a creative way for student assignments. It should be encouraged. Pinterest can be utilized by pinning educational sources and youtube for a flipped classroom concept. These platforms can require work, but will be worth it. Being able to find the right learning tools to fit into an educators teaching methods is the key to success. It gives them a chance to take advantage

Technology has provided people, especially students the freedom to achieve various conventional methods of learning. But, it also comes with multiple downfalls. School children are young; their mentality lacks judgment. Children can be easily influenced and lead astray, if not supervised accordingly. Kids get attracted toward the outside world, strangers, and today’s media easily. It is difficult for them to differentiate between right or wrong. If a particular situation happened to take place, it could potentially lead to tragic or even deadly events. The application of social media is drastically increasing, and so is the means to communicate. In a school like an area, the use of social media can be deadly for a student. Teachers find digital tools helpful but 87% also say that sites like YouTube are the most prominent distraction.” Consistently, social media could act as a

Many parents place their children in sports due to the fact that they want them to interact. There are many causes to why they do this. In this generation, due to the fact that social media is super popular and at a very young age kids start to use it, it prevents them from having a very social outside life. You may think that social media is a way to socialize with other, but it is not the same as being outdoors or being around others. Children should be required to interact with people. Children who tend to start to play sports at a young age, are the ones who are more social and are very much out there with people, children who would rather sit at home and not interact with anyone are the ones who do not know how to communicate with others most of the time.

The use of social media in the contemporary world has rapidly increased whereby the social networking services have become increasingly popular across all ages of life. Social media is a term that is generally used to describe the applications and websites which are used for social networking. The major social networking sites include Facebook, YouTube, Pinterest, Instagram, Twitter, Flickr, LinkedIn, among others. The rapid increase in the usage of social media and the social networking services by people across all ages of life have brought vast benefits to the contemporary society which have also come with various risks. The contemporary social media is thus a topic which has divided opinions whereby some people take the social media as an amazing tool while others are worried about the effect it has on the lives of individuals. The article on Critical Theory and Social Media as written by Allmer (2015) discusses the increased uptake of the social media mostly by the youths and the adolescents raising more concerns over the risks and dangers attributed to the contemporary social media. At the same time, Allmer says that the contemporary social media provides vast opportunities to these groups in terms of self-expression, learning, and creativity with this list being endless. The benefits and risks of the contemporary social media do not affect the youth only since even the working group also benefit a lot from social media while still being affected by the risks it

During this period many students do use a type of social media on the daily basis, and it is also known to be a vital part in the success of many students According to “Uk Press” each year there are more and more kids joining social media websites “Timothy Husley” talks about how social media can help establish a better sense of communication between people. You can interact face to face with your long lost childhood friends or relatives living abroad. And through these same networking sites, people got to know about the people from far places living in cursed situations and are taking steps to help them. People have known more about the importance of public health and safety through social media and

In today's society, social media has proven itself to be a huge part of the lives of many, especially teenagers and adults. In the 21st century, social media is utilized everywhere because it has made life much easier. For example, it is used for communication, information, and networking. Social media has been influencing the lives of people for quite some time now and it doesn’t seem like it will stop anytime soon. Humans depend largely on social media and that is why many are using it to maximize their productivity and efficiency. Education is no exception to this, especially in universities. Throughout centuries classrooms have been filled with an abundance of books and papers but over the past few years, classrooms have integrated social media and technology into the classroom setting. Colleges and universities have integrated social media in every aspect as possible. Universities only used libraries and professors for students to gather information which limited their sources but now the world wide web has made it possible for collegiate students and professors to have many resources that were almost impossible to obtain if it were not for the internet and social media platforms. Even though many still have doubts of the use of social media in a classroom setting it isn’t difficult to see that social media has many benefits because it’s easily available and accessible, improves communication in the classroom, and the plethora of information and resources there is that

Proponents of social media argue that these social platforms promote increased interaction with other people, offer teachers and students easy access to educational support and materials being taught in the classroom, facilitate social and political reform, and disperse news and important information rapidly.

Today, we are connected to each other in more ways than ever before. Our lives are widely visible online through social media. Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, and Instagram are just a few of the popular social media networks being used today. These networks are utilized by billions of users and the amount of time each user spends per day online is totally astounding. The content on these networks could be anything including photos and videos of our special moments that we love to share or perhaps content and information that we would rather not be made public. This content can be viewed by our neighbors, friends, family, teachers, students, and colleagues. This is exceptionally important to remember as the things we put online for the world to see could potentially have a lasting impact. For most individuals, checking social media is the first task when waking up in the morning and the last before going to sleep at night. That being said, there are many individuals using social media at work also. Workers say there are many positives to using social media in the office. For example, nearly 80 percent of employees who log on to a social network for work-related purposes believe it is a useful tool for networking or finding new job opportunities, while 71 percent think it is useful for staying in touch with others in their industry. (Brooks) There are others who would disagree and say that social media is a distraction or perhaps a good way to start drama. Regardless, with all

The Thanksgiving dinner where family that you have never met before comes in for a week and invades your personal space. You 're between the drunk uncle that no one really wants to sit next to and the Grandma you haven 't seen in forever, instead of engaging in conversation you pull out your phone franticly refreshing Instagram so talking isn’t asked of you. So many times we often turn to our phones for comfort to escape the awkward tension we are in, this gives social media a hold over us. “Social media is addictive precisely because it gives us something which the real world lacks: It gives us immediacy, direction and values as an individual.” - David Amerland. And as years went on the effect social media and texting has had on writing should be concerning for others. So the question we should pose is as writing in technology becomes more progressive do we loose our human connection/ emotion that would’ve been gained through writing in other forms?