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IMPACT OF SOCIAL MEDIA ON EDUCATION
IN THE PRESENT SCENARIO

Editors

Dr. S. Arockiasamy
Dr. D. Chitra
Mr. K. Chandraprakash
Mr. R. Prakash
Mr. A. Nallathambi
Mrs. D. Indirani
Dr. A. Shanmuganathi
Mr. K. Mohan
Mrs. D. Panimalar

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Impact of Social Media on Education in the Present Scenario ISBN: 978-81-923575-5-3

Social Media on Education

Raja, T. (Dr.)
Librarian, St. Xavier’s College of Education (Autonomous), Palayamkottai.
<rajaansondas@yahoo.co.in>

Introduction to face encounter to other

students

A
rmond McFadden stats that
“When I apply for part­ iii. Easy to accessible from
time work or internships virtually anywhere at any
during college, I make sure time, improves
employers know to look at my communication among
digital footprint which demonstrates students and teachers
that I have the skill set they want. I
iv. To find employment
ensure my resume contains links to
opportunities to students
social media sites which looks
fantastic for showing what I’m v. Easy to upload pictures,
capable of and for giving employers videos and documents in
background about me and my speed.
work." Social media is the future vi. Spending so much time
effective communication tool for all. working with new
Social media is a internet based tool technologies, students
and experience in sharing of develop more familiarity with
communication and interacting to computers and other
anyone at anytime and anywhere. It electronic devices. With the
includes forums, micro­blogging, increased focus on technology
social networking, social in education and business,
bookmarking, wikis and podcasts. this will help students build
Some familiar social networks like skills.
Whatsapp, Twitter, Facebook or
Important Social Networking Tools
MySpace have a great impact on
on Education
youths’ lives. The statistics about the
usage of social networks in the Number of familiarized Social media
world. tools on education to the students,
teachers and research scholars. This
Advantages on Social Media on
paper is to discuss only some
Education
educational tools like Edmodo,
i. Students helps to establish the Twitter, Wordpress, Skype and
relationship with real people Research Gate.
ii. Twitter can provide interact Edmodo on Education
with students, facilitate face

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Edmodo acts as a playground for iv. Our global community of

teaching and learning with a place educators will share resources
for posts, calendars, and general in minutes. No matter what
communication for teachers and your grade level and subject
students. Linking to students area, we've got you covered.
becomes simpler and more efficient v. We've built Edmodo with
as well as more effective when teachers, for teachers. Your
students enjoy the presentation of it. feedback defines every
It makes it easy to share valuable feature, your insight gives life
apps with students. to our community, and your
Special Features of Edmodo perspective keeps you and
i. With intuitive features and your students at the center of
unlimited storage, quickly everything we do.
create groups, assign vi. Whether you want to create a
homework, schedule quizzes, paperless classroom, nurture
manage progress, and more. digital citizenship skills,
With everything on one integrate educational content
platform, Edmodo reinforces from Edmodo Spotlight, or
and enhances what you're grow your professional
already doing in the learning network, you can
classroom. personalize how you use
Edmodo.
ii. Edmodo is designed to give
you complete control over Twitter on Education
your digital classroom. With Twitter is a micro blogging portal
tools that let you determine that proves extremely useful across
who can join groups, ensure academic applications. Teachers,
they remain private, and students, and parents can benefit
monitor member activity, greatly of the advantages offered by
safety is built right in. using Twitter in education. The short
tweets can be used to inform
iii. Give students new ways to
students about any changes and to
engage, participate, and
collaboratively work as a great team.
express themselves. With
Edmodo, you can post Special Features of Twitter
discussion topics, conduct i. Tweet homework and
polls, award badges, and assignments
more, to foster
communication and make ii. Get important educational
learning social. resources
iii. Student collaboration

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iv. Getting regular news updates online that can host a

through following, there will classroom website and be the
always be an interesting topic central location students go to
to debate in class. gather information about
upcoming assignments or
v. Any student can quickly and
examples.
easily find high authority
research material using ii. Communication: Teachers
Twitter in education. often create a blog to provide
students, parents, or other
vi. It is amazing how many
teachers an opportunity to
essential things you will learn
communicate with each other.
about your students by
having them complete such a iii. Class Website: An informative
survey (Twitter link to Survey classroom website can be
Monkey for example). created.
WordPress iv. Share Lesson Plans: For
Students are encouraged to develop educators, the ability to
multiliteracy skills and become quickly post and share their
active digital citizens that can online lessons is a powerful
communicate effectively in a digital experience.
environment. Blogs are an exciting v. Online Discussions: The ability
and appealing way to support to respond to posts allow for
digital literacy skills in a asynchronous communication
challenging, engaging and to occur between students in
collaborative environment. With so the class and the instructor.
many themes to choose An alternative is to use the
from,WordPress has become a forums feature, where
popular way for teachers to set up a discussions can be conducted
web of communication and lessons and used to facilitate
with their students. Teachers can conversations outside of the
also use it to inspire students to classroom walls.
write more by having them create
vi. ePortfolio: Students can
their own blogs and meet the
quickly create an ePortfolio of
WordPress Challenges.
the concepts they have
Uses of WordPress on Education learned over the term or the
i. Blogs: Teachers and students year. By adding links,
can easily setup a blog for multimedia, and original
multiple purposes. Teachers content they are able to
can use the blog as one place demonstrate their learning
online without having to deal

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with physical papers and It is a social networking site for

books. scientists and researchers to share
Skype papers, ask and answer questions,
and find collaborators. According to
Using Skype means connecting with a study by Nature and an article in
anyone, anywhere, at any time. This Times Higher Education, it is the
means students not only connect largest academic social network in
with teachers but teachers encourage terms of active users,although other
students to broaden their view of the services have more registered users
world. Set up virtual connections by and more recent data suggests that
contacting other teachers then almost as many academics have
connect the students to each other. Google Scholar profiles. Users are
Also, Skype has a whole portal also able to block interactions with
dedicated to educators who can use other users,
it to teach various lessons already set
up by the Skype team.They can i. Share your publications,
communicate with teachers through access millions more, and
Skypecalls and chats to stay abreast publish your data.
of their child's performance when ii. Connect and collaborate with
face to face meetings aren't feasible. colleagues, peers, co­authors,
Communicating with parents and and specialistsin your field.
guardians is easier and teachers are iii. Get statsand find out who's
also able to expand the boundaries been reading and citing your
of the classroom. work.
Uses of Skype on Education iv. Find the right jobusing our
Use it to collaborate with other research­focused job board.
classrooms Use it to conduct expert
v. Connect and collaborate with
interviews.
colleagues, peers, co­authors,
i. Enable participation (and and specialists in your field.
catch­up) for students outside
vi. Ask questions, get answers,
of the classroom. and find solutions to research
ii. Use it for tutoring problems.
iii. Host a virtual Career Disadvantages of Social Media
Exploration Day. i. Lacks Emotional Connection
iv. Enable better collaboration for ii. Gives People a License to be
group projects and Hurtful
extracurricular activities. iii. Decreases Face­to­
FaceCommunication Skills.
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Expression of Feelings. 25/12/2017)
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Disconnected. https: //www.techlearning.com/tl­
advisor­blog/9084 (retrieved
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Social media is good platform for the
http://www.edudemic.com/social­
education sector. It concludes that
media­education/ (retrieved
social media is effective tool for
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educationalists like students,
teachers and research scholars for http://blog.theeducationpartners.co
sharing and communicating the m/social­media­as­an­
information without the limits. educational­tool (retrieved on
25/12/2017)
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