Social Media Impact On Education

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Social media is a useful tool to students, but too much use of social media has changed the daily routine in their education, instead of reading books and studying. Students waste too much time in using social media and prefer holding gadgets and it as pastime hobby. Many students are using social media thus students still have a different perspective in using it. Thus, social media gives positive review on how it can help students in studies.
“Computers themselves and software yet to be developed will revolutionize the way we learn” according to Steve Jobs n.d. Education in today’s world is all about the connection in social media. “Social media and technology are not agents of change. They are just tools. We the connected people are the …show more content…

Social Media can help students increase wisdom in education thus it can also become destruction.
In today’s world of connected learning, the impact of social media on education is becoming a driving factor. The world is getting smaller, and through the use of technology such as social media, the way we deliver instruction is changing. Social media has created many challenges ' not only in student’s education but also in the community. There are positive and adverse effects of social networking to students, and the jury is still out concerning the long-term effects social media exposure may have (Bruce Hopkins, 2016).
According to Bruce Hopkins (2016), the adoption of social media in everyday life is one of the driving forces behind these changing expectations and how social media is changing education. The impact of these technologies on education can be considered positive but also has some negative consequences. There have been studies of the adverse impact of social media on people’s brains and these negative effects not only have an effect of social media in education it has an impact on society as a …show more content…

Nothing is strange to 'goggle '. No matter how old the information is, the Internet serves as search lights to them. Some information that cannot be found in the libraries and research centers are now available online. The use of search engines such as Google and Google Scholar has helped many students in their educational life. The world is now a small place where there is circulation of knowledge and information (Information Parlour 2016). Students life become easy because of the help of social media, it can search information easy whether it’s in the past or in the present, in just one click because not all information students’ needs can be easily found in the school