The Role of Social Media in Education

Social networking has become immensely popular and has advanced very well over the past decade. Many developing companies have worked hard and as a result, instant messaging, and social networks like Facebook and twitter have emerged in the 21st century. With the advancement of smartphones, many teenagers and young adults have been attracted to using these networks on a daily bases. Although there have been many problem that with social media, there has also been many positive effects of using social networking. I personally believe that social networking has been positively affecting the growth of education of children’s in the 21st centuries.
The National Survey of Student Engagements is the first way of measuring how involved students are towards the school and their class studies. In a study conducted my Reynol Junco, he took 2368 college students and examined the relationship between Facebook use, participation in Facebook activities and student engagement at school. The results indicate that Facebook use was negatively predictive of engagement scale score. This meant that the more the students used Facebook, the lower their engagement scale score was. However, this was not the case with another study done by the same researcher, except with the use of another social network: Twitter. In this study, Twitter was used in a classroom lecture. The result found was that it actually improved student performance and engagement throughout the class. These evidence back up my belief that social media can be beneficial to our school education, if it was used properly. An example would be websites such like Edmodo. This website was inspired from Facebook; students are able to join a class created by their teacher. The student is now able to see who their classmates are and allows them to communicate with everyone in their class. Edmodo also allows teacher to post work, seminar and recourses for the student to who need more help with their studies.
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