How Is Social Media Changing Education Landscape?

Almost everywhere you can see a sign of a text message, or an ad that says “Like Us onFacebook” or “Follow us on Twitter”.

Social media has spread to almost all the aspects to our lives and it is not only popular inyoung generations but also popular in older faculty.

Even Some Colleges have their Facebook Page and twitter accounts to help students and alsomake official announcement of college activities, exam schedule and assignment submissiondate.

Students can create study groups on Stunited.org towork together outside classroom and even canshare notes.

Students can have opportunity to get answers totheir questions from a community of teachers .

Students can find scanned notes from classroom onStunited.org.

Students can keep all their documents online andshare them with other classmates.

Twitter.com is the only place were text becomes

social.

Most students use the twitter mobile app to stay on

touch with friends, also teachers have devised ways

to use Twitter in the classroom.

Student tweet jokes, academic questions, news and

many other funny status updates as a way of

keeping up with their friends.

Youtube.com has dedicated educational video channelswhich students use to learn basics on most subjects.

Students are now able to watch a video and ask questionsdirectly to the person behind it, but it’s not their teacher.

Some teacher use YouTube videos to derive real time visualexamples on any subject in the classroom.

YouTube videos came from a variety of teachers so studentscould essentially choose the type of teachers they enjoyedand understood the best.

EPals.com is centralized on education only, it is a place wherelearners connect and share academic information.

Students can post educational news on instant; they can alsojoin educational challenges on the network which in turnboots their creativity.

Both students and their teachers can use earning tools likeBlogs, Wikis, and Media Galleries.

Quora.com is a large community of people with openminds.

Many students use quora to get answers on generalsubjects like history, math, English, health and muchmore.

For you to verify the accuracy of any answer, othermembers will vote down or up any answer which willhelp you analyze the correct answers.

Piazza.com is a great place to learn whatever you

want with Piazza; students can easily ask any question

and get answers.

Students who fear to ask questions while in the

classroom, they will find Piazza comfortable.

Teachers can also take advantage of this network by

creating virtual classes, managing course materials,

and track student participation

Docsity.com is a free social learning network foruniversity and high-school students.

Students can get contents in 7 different languagesincluding Italian, English, Spanish, Polish, Russian,Serbian and Portuguese.

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