Social Media in Education

This is the age of Web 2.0 and we already know Students used blogs to share information and their research. Blogs encourage peoples of all ages to write creative writing and proper grammar skills. Social Media also bring together children of all ages to help to each other homework and research. Teacher can use social media sources for get new stories for discuss in the classrooms.           Children can exchange ideas  and learn from each other with the helps of social media sites like Twitter, Facebook and MySpace.

Some Teachers in the schools and in the universities create a Facebook page for there students where they can schedule events, post notes  and remind there students for assignment due dates. With the help of youtube teachers able to post there recorded lessons for their students to watch again whenever they want. Post discussion topic on their blogs and give your students a few days to review topic and comment on it.

       This image shows the statistics of some top social media colleges.  

Reference :http://ukwebfocus.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/top-usa-uni-uses-of-social-media.png?w=877&h=458

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