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Social Media in Education
1. SOCIAL MEDIA IN
EDUCATION
The concept of social media
Social media, social networking and E-
learning
Social media and instruction
Channels of performing activities in
social media
Advantages and disadvantages of social
media in education
2. What is social media?
Social media is the interaction
among people in which they
create, share or exchange information
and ideas in virtual communities and
networks. Social media can also be
said to be a group of Internet-based
applications that build on the
ideological and technological
foundations of internet that allows the
creation and exchange of user-
generated contents.
3. Classification of social media
Social media technologies take on
many different forms including:
magazines
Internet forums
weblogs
social blogs
podcasts
4. Social media, social networking
and E-learning
Most often these terms are used
interchangeably by people but it is important
to stress the point that these three terms are
very different from one another in terms of
nature and functions.
SOCIAL MEDIA
Social media is the interaction among
people in which they create, share or
exchange information and ideas in virtual
communities and networks. Social media can
also be said to be a group of Internet-based
applications that build on the ideological and
technological foundations of internet that
allows the creation and exchange of user-
generated contents.
5. Social media differ from traditional or
industrial media in many ways, including
quality, reach
frequency, usability, immediacy, and
permanence. According to
Nielsen, internet users continue to spend
more time with social media sites than
any other type of site. At the same
time, the total time spent on social media
in the U.S. across PC and mobile
devices increased by 37 percent to 121
billion minutes in July 2012 compared to
88 billion minutes in July 2011.
6. SOCIAL NETWORKING
A social networking service is a
platform to build social networks or social
relations among people who, for
example, share
interests, activities, backgrounds or real-
life connections.
Social networking is the hottest online
trend of the last few years. Not only do
social media sites provide a way to keep
in contact with friends, but they can also
offer opportunities for professional online
networking.
7. Advantages of social
networking
Social networking offers many benefits some of
the benefits includes.
making it easier than ever to keep in contact with
old friends and colleagues. The professional
networking site LinkedIn even allows users to
request introductions to business people who are
known to their contacts.
The potential of this enhanced connectivity is
huge; whereas once you would be left sifting
through business cards after a networking
event, trying to remember details about each
person, you can now easily look up a
connection’s credentials and business interests
on their social media profile.
8. Disadvantages of social
networking
The primary disadvantage of social
networking is that most people do not know
how to network effectively. As a result, the
few benefits they get from their networking
activity are not worth the time invested. The
best way to avoid being disappointed in this
way is to decide on a strategy for using social
sites, and stick to it. For example, if you are
going to use Twitter to draw attention to
exciting new content on your website, then
resist the temptation to waste time tweeting
about unrelated topics. Stay focused on what
you want to achieve and don’t let yourself get
distracted.
9. E- LEARNING
E-learning is the use of electronic media and
information and communication technologies (ICT)
in education. E-learning is broadly inclusive of all
forms of educational technology in learning and
teaching. E-learning is inclusive of, and is broadly
synonymous with multimedia learning, technology-
enhanced learning (TEL), computer-based
instruction (CBI), computer-based training
(CBT), computer-assisted instruction or computer-
aided instruction (CAI), internet-based training
(IBT), web-based training (WBT), online
education, virtual education, virtual learning
environments (VLE) (which are also called
learning platforms), m-learning and digital
educational collaboration. These alternative
names emphasize a particular aspect, component
or delivery method
10. SOCIAL MEDIA AND
INSTRUCTION
Social media as a concept has its own
impact on education both positively and
negatively. In early 2013, Steve Joordens, a
professor at the University of
Toronto, encouraged the 1,900 students
enrolled in his introductory psychology course
to add content to Wikipedia pages featuring
content that related to the course. Like other
educators, Joordens argued that the
assignment would not only strengthen the
site’s psychology-related content, but also
provide an opportunity for students to engage
in critical reflection about the negotiations
involved in collaborative knowledge
production. Examples of these social medias
and education includes:
11. Facebook and classroom
It allows for both an asynchronous and
synchronous, open dialogue via a familiar and
regularly accessed medium, and supports the
integration of multimodal content such as
student-created photographs and video and
URLs to other texts, in a platform that many
students are already familiar with.
Further, it allows students to ask more minor
questions that they might not otherwise feel
motivated to visit a professor in person during
office hours to ask.
It also allows students to manage their own
privacy settings, and often work with the privacy
settings they have already established as
registered users.
12. Facebook is one alternative means for
shyer students to be able to voice their
thoughts in and outside of the classroom.
It allows students to collect their
thoughts and articulate them in writing
before committing to their expression.
Facebook can also aid students in self-
expression and encourage more
frequent student-and-instructor and
student-and-student communication
13. Twitter and classroom
Twitter, also, promotes social connections
among students. It can be used to enhance
communication building and critical thinking.
Domizi (2013) utilized Twitter in a graduate
seminar requiring students to post weekly
tweets to extend classroom discussions.
Students reportedly used Twitter to connect
with content and other students.
Additionally, students found it “to be useful
professionally and personally” They also
reported that students used Twitter to get up-
to-date news and connect with professionals
in their field.
14. YouTube and classroom
YouTube is the most frequently used social
media tool in the classroom.
Students can watch videos, answer
questions, and discuss content.
Additionally, students can create videos to
share with others.
YouTube also improved students’ digital skills
and provided opportunity for peer learning
and problem solving.
Additionally, the students reported that the
videos helped them recall information and
visualize real world applications of course
concepts.
15. CHANNELS OF PERFORMING
SOCIAL ACTIVITIES ON SOCIAL
MEDIA
Channels of carrying out activities on
social medias online includes the
following:
Google
Facebook
Twitter
Whatsapp
2go Etc.
16. GOOGLE
Founded: September 4 1998
Founder: Larry Page, Sergey Brin
Estimated users: 13.96 Billion active
users
17. FACEBOOK
Founded: February 4 2004
Founder: Mark Zuckerberg, Eduado
Savering, Andrew McCollum, Dustin
Moskovitz and Chris huges
Estimated users: 1.23 Billion active users
18. TWITTER
Founded: March 21 2006
Founder: Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Evans
Williams
Estimated user: 200 million active users
21. ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES
OF SOCIAL MEDIA IN EDUCATION
Advantages
Extensive use of public social media sites that
support the creation, sharing and commenting of
content, as well as the co-creation of
content, enables learners to co-create and share
their own content within their own work in teams.
Extensive use of social networking sites like
Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc where
individuals have built a personal network of
trusted friends, means that they are using similar
approaches to build networks of trusted
colleagues (both internally and externally), as
well as power team workspaces and internal
communities of practice.
22. Social Constructivism: Social media
provides an easily accessible tool
for helping students to work together
to create their own meaning in
academic subjects, social contexts, or
work environments.
Breadth of Knowledge: It is now easier
than ever to know (or find out)
something about almost anything in
the world through connected media.
23. disadvantages
Distraction: social media produces
momentary distraction of an isolated
text message, and the way in which
social media involvement provides an
acceptable diversion from intellectual
pursuits.
Pressure to Conform: students also
give the main reasons behind their
24/7 connection is a fear of not
keeping up with peers or appearing
“like a loser in public, thereby
lowering their self esteem
24. Social media engagement supports a culture
of avoidance which operates in
direct opposition to the idea that students
need to take risks and fail in their academic
endeavors in order to become successful
innovators.
social media does promote a kind of
intellectual and social shallowness that could
have long-term negative consequences for
learners. E.g. The commonly used sets of
social media channels doesn’t encourage
learners to express themselves as it only
provide chance for only 140 characters.
