CHAPTER II
THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
This chapter presents the relevant theory, review of related literature, conceptual framework and hypothesis to make the research clearly and understandable in connection with the study, “Pupils’ Perspective on Social Media as a Learning Tool.”
Relevant Theory
This paper is guided by the theory of Lev Vygotsky about constructivism or constructivist theory.
Lev Vygotsky’s is a Russian Psychologist, who stresses the importance of looking at each child as an individual who learns distinctively or different from another. The overall goal of education according to Vygotsky is to generate and lead development which is the result of social learning through internalization of culture and social relationship. With
…show more content…
The students today have been labeled as Digital Natives by (Presky, 2001) because according to him “they spent their entire lives surrounded by and using computers, videogames, video cams, digital music players, cell phones and all the other toys and tools of the digital age.”A report from Pew Research Center (2010) revealed that 73% of the teenagers (meaning they are students) use some form of social networking by incorporating social media into the lives of the students in the …show more content…
It represents as a useful tool mainly for education and communication. Also it helps students to multitask because of their demanding class schedule; they are not preferred on creating multiple messages for individual because for them it is time consuming. Instead they use Facebook and emails to do such thing for their classmates, friends and even family. Like most of the students did, when the discussion inside the classroom ends they can continue their conversations through group chat that all of the students in a class are intact in that kind of social media. In group page, it is use to posts and share lectures for the sake of all and especially for other students who missed classes and serves as a group study sessions or commonly known as group discussion. On the other hand, when it comes to the get the public opinion when the students have projects and some certain issue to be display on public they can extend the discussion or forum and activities to the public only to find out what peers think about it and their opinion, suggestion or feedback towards that issue and