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Effect of Social Media Portals On The Educational Processes in Schools and Universities
Effect of Social Media Portals On The Educational Processes in Schools and Universities
Submitted by
Rejitha R
4thsemester ME.d
Department of education
University of kerala.
INTRODUCTION
Virtual communities have many features that exist in reality. They are
characterized by interaction, sense of identity, and belonging. In addition, they
have their proper rites, rituals, forms of expression, the existence of a common
purpose, standards, and rules (MacQuail, 2007).
Some of the most popular current forms of social media are social networking
websites such as Facebook, which surpassed over one billion active monthly users
in October 2012. There are several types of online platforms classified under the
vast umbrella of social media. These categories include:
Social Networks: Social networking websites allow users to build web pages
featuring personal portfolios and interests. These pages are used to connect with
friends, colleagues and other users in order to share media, content and
communications. Examples of social networks include Facebook, LinkedIn,
MySpace and Bebo.
Visual social networks are becoming more popular, with Instagram having now
surpassed Twitter in its amount of users. Data has shown that a tweet that includes
an image has a 150% more chance of being shared. There are also new networks
such as Snapchat and Periscope, that are slowly growing in terms of popularity,
especially with the younger generations.
Web blogs: Some of the oldest and most popular forms of social media are blogs.
Blogs are often viewed as online journals that order content chronologically, or by
date, month, year and category. Users can also maintain “vlogs,” or video blogs,
featuring shared or homemade videos. Blogging websites include WordPress,
Blogger and Tumblr.
Microblogs: Microblogs are blogging tools that feature short posts, as opposed to
journal-style posts. Users are usually restricted to posting a few lines of text, or
uploading individual images and videos. Microblogging is particularly common for
posting quick updates and distributing content via mobile devices. Notable
microblogging sites include Twitter and Tumblr. However, social networks such as
Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn and MySpace also have their own microblogging
features.
Wikis: Wiki websites allow a community of people to add and edit content in a
community-based database. One of the best-known wikis is Wikipedia.
Podcasts: Podcasts are audio and video files available through subscription
services such as Apple iTunes. The term “podcast” is a neologism derived from
“broadcast” and “pod” (as in “iPod”), since Podcasts are often listened to on
portable media players.
Social media can also be classified by their ability to facilitate certain social
functions. These social functions often involve identity, conversation, sharing,
presence, relationships, reputation, and groups.
Effect of social media on the educational process in schools and universities.
Online learning is education that takes place over the internet. It is often
referred to as e- learning. The learning process will take place on electronic
device through internet. So online learning create a positive out look to the
learning process.
Social media portals help the student to create their own environment.
Students can easily develop their own ideas with the help of learning
platforms.
Sharing of information, links, to other sites has now become super easy
for students as they share pieces of information to their friends, classmates,
and other.
5. Social credibility.
6. Cost-effective communication.
Social media is an excellent and free medium it cannot only be used to
communicate. It is also an outstanding device to promote things like new
courses and research areas.
CONCLUSION
Today the mass media play an important role in society. Social networks do
not offer a learning model on their own; however, they can be used as a supporting
tool to provide better learning and to increase motivation. Along with the increase
of the significance of the use of social media in education, social media sites are
established worldwide for educational purposes solely and they are becoming
widespread. It is believed that increase in success and motivation can be provided
with the use of these social media sites that serve educational purposes only.
The bottom line is that social media is a big part of our day to day life and
there’s no point of keeping it away from the education process. School, college and
university staff should be encouraged to make use of technology for student and
parent communication.
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