Online social media for teaching and learning

 

Technoloogy grows rapidly around us and it is like an arrow. It can be easily to access. The growth encourages someone to create something new innovative idea. Recently, People use internet to access some information. It is easy, simple and efficient. We often hear the term of “social media” in our community. So what is the social media? Social media is the collective of online communications channels dedicated to community-based input, interaction, content-sharing and collaboration. Websites and applications dedicated to forums, micro blogging, social networking , social bookmarking, social cu ration, and wikis are among the different types of social media. Using social media for teaching activity has some advantages for student and teachers actually. one of the advantages is sharing Information. Student can continuously connected to the internet through their mobiles, tablets, etc. They can share some information to each other as wise as possible.

 Social media is an ingrained part of today’s society. Teenagers are constantly on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and likely many sites we’re not hip enough to know about.  There are so many awesome applications for supporting teaching and learning activity. for example, facebook group. Facebook is known as a place to post status updates, announcements, photos, and video — all things that we likely use in our classes anyway or each class, on which we can post assignments, make announcements, and remind students about important deadlines. Parents can also access the site to monitor what is going on in our class. or each class, on which we can post assignments, make announcements, and remind students about important deadlines. Parents can also access the site to monitor what is going on in our class. 

 In Short, since students are already using social media away from the classroom, integrating it into the classroom helps students learn best practices for social media and offers an interesting new twist on lessons.It is easy, effective, and fun