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EDUCATION (PRO (SCHOOL PLATFORMS FOR STUDENTS AND TEACHERS using apps…
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SCHOOL PLATFORMS FOR STUDENTS AND TEACHERS using apps helps to promote communication outside the classroom e.g. EDMODO AND SKYPE
SOME STUDENTS ARE CHOSEN BY UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES WICH USE SOCIAL MEDIA FACEBOOK , TWITTER
More than 80% of US college and university faculty use social media; more than 50% use it for teaching; and 30% for communicating with students Mark Blankenship, "How Social Media Can and Should Impact Higher Education," Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, Mar. 2011
96.6% of four-year institutions use Facebook to recruit students, 83.4% use Twitter, and 79.3% use YouTube. Ruffalo Noel Levitz, "2014 E-Recruiting Practices Report for Four-Year and Two-Year Institutions," noellevitz.com, 2014
SOCIAL PROVIDES ACADEMICAL RESOURCES OPEN TO EVERYONE Information previously restricted to academia's "ivory tower" can now be shared with the public who do not have access to restricted journals or costly databases gger Brains, "Get Noticed. Disseminate Your Research Better," biggerbrains.com (accessed Dec. 5, 2012)
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Social media sites help students do better at school. 59% of students with access to the Internet report that they use social media to discuss educational topics and 50% use the sites to talk about school assignments.2015 study published in the Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology said college freshman should use social networking sites to build networks of new friends, feel socially integrated at their new schools, and reduce their risk of dropping out. [182]
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- SOCIAL MEDIA CAN BE A DISTRACTION IN CLASS
- IMPROPER USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA IN THE CLASSROOMuse it for personal interactions instead of for school related activities. If students are not closely monitored it will be hard to know how if they are using social media properly during class time.
- CYBER BULLYING ON SOCIAL MEDIA WEBSITES
- POSTING INAPPROPRIATE CONTENT ON SOCIAL MEDIA WEBSITES
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BLOgging site as a forum to share content, encourage debate and answer queries, with some even setting up hashtags for individual courses to create online discussion communities for their students.
10 people now owning a smartphone, and social media usage accounting for over 30% of online smartphone activity, this is a communication channel that lecturers simply can’t afford to overlook
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