“Little people doing little things in little places everywhere can change the world” this quote by Anwar Fazal about social networking sites and its great and rapid effects on the world, the statistics shows the number of social network users worldwide from 2010 to 2014 is estimated around 2013 billion social network users around the globe, and fully 95% of all teens ages 12-17 are now online, which means that almost all students have accounts on social networks. And now many schools started to block social network sites and put it as a rule in the schools because of it affects badly on students and their education. Although it might be thought that social networking sites should be blocked in schools because it causes distraction …show more content…
They thought that social networking sites at schools aren’t use ful to the learning process, however, using social media in the classroom can be very useful, it can encourage and motivate the students to participate especially for students who don’t participate in the class, they can express their thoughts and opinions through social media and when they get admiration from their teacher and friends they will be motivated to share their thoughts and express it face to face and by time the students will be more confident. Next, also opponents think that social media can cause a distraction in the class, but, if there is no social media in schools there won’t be any distraction in schools!! of course not. So, there are many factors causing distraction in schools not only social network sites like lateness, talking, eating and unprepared and that according to the article “ the benefits of using social media in classrooms” By GDC team. To wrap up social networking sites despites it have disadvantages it also have many useful advantages for student’s educational program and education …show more content…
Social media sites increase student collaboration. Its making students easily contact one another regarding schools projects, group assignment to discuss freely in their project and the teacher can join with them. Also its important and for students who have difficulty in expressing their thoughts in classrooms they can discuss their thoughts with their friends and teacher online in the break time and let the classroom time for teaching. The second point that social media help keep parents, teachers and students all on the same page like in face book which allow teachers to easily communicate through private message to parents, and let the parent know what’s going in school like events. So that, its opportunity to communicate directly with parents and that’s according to Vancouver tutot Susan Cumberland she is the owner of school is easy and she has a masters of education in educational leadership and counseling and she mentioned this information in her article “5 pros and cons of social media in the class room”. Its important to help students understand that using social media for learning isn’t an opportunity for them to engage and entertainment with their friends. Finally, social media important for keeping parents in contact with teachers and help students to contact with their colleagues, teachers if they had group work and make
Amicucci found out that “students’ purpose for writing and audience within it-affects the way they write” (489). Social media, Facebook and Twitter, is mainly used because their connection with friends online helps them learn their material from class better. Students use social media because it is easier to learn when talking to friends online in their primary discourse about something and not in their secondary discourse. They feel like they can be
Social media websites not only uses up time, but negatively impacts many people 's lives. While these sites may be interesting and entertaining, it also contributes to changes in mostly teens behaviors, attitudes, struggles in school, and effective
I think that technology and the internet can and have brought people together. The reason that i say that is because if you are homeschooled, than you can stay connected with your old friends. But if you get cut off from the internet and stuff, and you canot get to talk to anyone at all, than you will be lonely and not have anyone to talk to. The internet has helped to get people help fast. It helps people who want to learn new things, and it helps people who want to share what they have learned.
There are many educational sites, and sites used for research blocked by these filters, making teaching and learning a little frustrating at times. Of course many of the social networking sites are blocked, such as Facebook, Twitter, and sites like Youtube and blogger. But, In order to make school more relevant to students and enhance their learning experiences; teachers need to be able to incorporate those same social interactions that are successful outside of school into authentic assignments
Social media has made its way up with new development and although it helps us stay connected with others and helps us make new
Social media is becoming an ubiquitous in today’s society and today’s youth are spending a great deal of time using some sites to access in a public life. Social media 1 Negative effects of social media on education A lot of students are using some sites that can distract them from their doings especially on their studies. Yes, social media gives everything what a person will need. Social media is a great way to have a person communicating with another person but we also do know that it could give us a big impact that could be problem to our studies. Nowadays, a lot of students are multi-tasking especially whenever they are doing some things that are related to their studies.
Social Media for The Community In this Modern Era, Social Media plays an pivotal role in communicating. If we look according to the expert B.K Lewis, media social is label for digital technology that allows people to interact,providing and sharing the message content. We know that social media is very close to the community. Even it can be said that “human’s can’t lived without social media”.
Social media increases productivity. This tool offers more information, including new events and information can be accessed at any time of the day and night. Studies have linked the use of internet / social media with academic success as well as better job performance and job prospects. Social Media has positive and negative impacts, examples of positive impacts can recogrize and built relationships with many people and the negative impact is it can make a crime.
According to Canneil University’s (Steven Strogatz, 2005), “Social media sites can make it more difficult for us to distinguish between the meaningful relationships we foster in the real world, and the numerous casual relationships formed through social media”. When the young people prioritise these less than meaningful relationships, the more important connections like parents-children and sisters-brothers relationship will weaken because the less they communicate with each other, the higher the risk for the meaningful relationship to be damaged. They also score low in schools because of the distractions like video games, watching videos, and chatting with known and unknown person in social media sites. People never realise that all of these kind of distractions are actually the distractions that they created themselves. Young people may cause their future to be beaten by their own current attitude because ‘how’ they think now is ‘how’ they are going to be in the
The social media format provides an association between the mystery of relationship of people in the real life and internet. So we should educate the student that how to use of technology in appropriate
Social networking is the connection of friends or family together which allow people to communicate easily. With social networking sites people can have a long chain of friends they can chat or share information with. Mostly students devote more attention to social media than they do to their studies. Students’ addictiveness to social network, students’ frequency of exposure to social network, social media network that the students are more exposed to and the influence of social media as a medium of interaction between students has been part of discussion in recent times and which have imparted on their academic performance. This synopsis thesis addresses the effects of using social networking on students.
With the benefits of social media, it plays a big part in the students’ everyday lives. In using this, it allows people to be updated every day with regards to what is happening in their surroundings. Most of the students use social media for academic purposes, for instance, to be able to interact or communicate with their classmates and teachers with regards to the activities and tasks that have given to them. People, in general,
Twenty-first century learners spend a lot of free time online. They use it extensively to get global access. It becomes a raging craze for everyone nowadays. Although social media may have change the world for the better, it may also cause distraction to students, it changes the way they interact with others and it causes psychological changes or other health problems. It is quite obvious that using social media has its benefits.
Name : (Quintus) Gan QI Xiang Student’s iD : 0322280 Question: What are the advantages and disadvantages of Social Media? Justify your answer with relevant evidences. The definition of social media is a group of internet-based applications that allows the creation and exchange of user-generated contents such as tweet, post, picture, audio files, video and others more which is created by users of an online system and service.
Thesis In today’s world, social networking plays a very important role in many peoples lives. There are many types of social networking. Along with it comes many benefits emerging from today’s vast evolving technology, yet, on the other hand, there are some downfalls, such as cyberbullying, procrastination and so on. Is social networking causing teens to be anti-social these days?