Impact of Social Media in Education

Positive Impacts of Social Media in Education

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   Even if we deny, social media has a great impact on our life. It makes one connected to the world in an instant. it connects billions of people with one another and most importantly, social media connects humans to information faster.

   Students of today's world is not left behind in terms of social media. In fact, there are many students who are using it for their own use. Though some may think negatively of the social media usage of the students, many of them had overcome it and through them, we may see the positive effects social media can bring to the students in terms of their education.

   According to Hale (2016), social media may increase the rate and quality of collaboration for students.He said that through social media, the students could communicate better and faster  through this mean. Through the better and faster communication it provides, productivity would increase and could further result to a knowledge and understanding on how to work well in groups.

   Social media also creates a positive impact in education because it facilitates online learning. According to Bolaji (n.d.), social media give ample resources that a student may access to get information that may be of help to them.

  Furthermore, Bolaji also stated that social media helps in education for it helps one gain wider knowledge. As stated above, social media gives various resources that will further make one acquire more knowledge especially if they learn to use it wisely.

SOURCE: http://blog.blogdash.com/media-industry/positive-negative-use-social-media-students/

Negative Impacts of Social Media in Education

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  Social media had paved way for different improvements on our education system. However, social media may also have negative impacts in education. Here are some of the negative impacts of social media that is cited in lorecentral.org (2017).

  Social media can lead to the intrusion of the student's privacy. Social media can be a hazard to the child's protection. Some of this hazard may include grooming and cyber-bullying. Grooming is the act of winning the friendship of a minor by an adult for the purpose of sexual abuse. Cyber-bullying on the other hand is the act of psychological harassment online.

   Social media can lead to dependency. In here, students might have a need for immediate response to their problems. It could also lead to distraction. Social media has different sites that one can use for entertainment. However, too much use of this might let one be distracted from their main goal of learning.

   Furthermore, social media can also lessen human relationships. In the time of gadgets and accessible internet, some could detach from human relationships so easily. In a class, the use of gadgets may lessen the camaraderie of the students.

SOURCE: https://www.lorecentral.org/2017/11/advantages-disadvantages-social-networks-education.html