Can Social Media Provide Positive Impact on Education?

Social media as become the part of everyone’s life. We all have started using social media along with our regular activities. But when we consider students, will social media bring any positive impact?

A teacher from ES Lords International school has explained in detail about it and the tips to utilize the social media for students’ betterment in studies and their career.

1. Social media is vast platform. If students get into it without clarity, they tend to waste their time without gaining anything. Instead, students can pick any one of the best social media platforms and use it for gathering the niche information or for networking with experts. For example, if you want to learn about latest trending technologies. Use Twitter, LinkedIn to follow experts of that field. They share niche information on their social media page.
2. Facebook group can be utilized regularly for streaming the lectures in live and also to create group discussions. From the Facebook group, teachers can send the link of live classes directly to parents’ email. Parents and students can join the class via the link access. ManyCBSE schoolsstarted using the social media platforms effectively to move education system to next level.
3. Creating blog for each class is also one of the good ways to improve the writing skills of the students. For example, teachers can create a blog separately for each class in any of the writing platforms like WordPress, Wix, Blogger etc. And students can be asked to write essay on any particular topic. The teachers can review the essays of all the students and post it in the blog. This will undoubtedly enhance the thinking capability, researching skills and also writing practice of the students.

If teachers come across any informative videos or education forums, they can share it with the students.  ES Lords International school motivates students, parents and the teachers to use the social media platform productively to nurture the kids in social learning. This will help them to know the world and also they network easily with peer learning group easily.