Education or learning is a vast area that is not just confined to the pages of textbooks in a country like India. Today research, interaction and communication are done through social media. Until a few years back our educational institutions, teachers and parents gave less importance to this new aspect of social media in education.
But times have changed; social media is fast becoming a vital tool in the education sector. Social media is now making the impossible functions possible for students positioned at every nook and corner of the world.
Earlier students in remote areas did not have access to proper education and those fortunate ones who had proper education had ideas and knowledge confined to what is taught under their syllabus. Social media has now revolutionised education by connecting students all over the world through virtual platforms where they can share, learn and get new ideas.
Social media has gained huge popularity within its short period of its existence in the education sector. Educators have embraced social media as a positive change in education and they know how to harness the power of social media in a productive way under the controlled atmosphere of a classroom.
The popularly used social media sites in education are Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and Linkedln. These sites offer various resources such as group chats, micro blogging and other ways through which our teachers and students can be kept updated about the new developments in education.
The social media tools are also being updated so as to meet the demands of our education sector. The virtual classrooms and study groups provide a great platform for our students to improve their skills and knowledge.
Social media not only provides a collaborative, dynamic learning environment to students but also provides many innovative tools to make them capable of handling their own learning process to a great extent.
Creativity, innovation, problem solving and critical thinking are some of the important skills that educators hope most to instill in the students. Innovation and creativity are increasingly becoming the most important skills sought by recruiters across all sectors.
These are the skills that are developed in a social media environment. Thus social media is an effective platform for teaching the skills demanded in the present century.
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