The importance of social media in education

                                   The importance of social media in education

Social media is a social interactive, computer-mediated platform that creaat connections amongst people all over the world and also facilitate the creation and sharing of information, ideas, career interests and other forms of expression via virtual communities and networks. In the world today, technology is believed to have taken over almost everything in the world by rendering great assistance to human.

They are various types of social media platforms in the world today, some of which are, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp, electronic  Mailing applications, etc. Social media platforms are used to connect people all over the world as earlier stated, but social media today have gone beyond being an interactive platform but also a platform which can educate, carry out businesses, share ideas, a medium for advertising and promotion etc.

In education today,  social media platforms are used to educate and give out informations to students in school as a faster way to carry out research and assignments, the internet today has provided room for online library were books and articles can be published online for people to read without doing the stress of going to a library. Research works are also being published online for researchers and higher institution students to access easily.anywere and anytime of the day. The use of social media in education has made education more easier, school lecturesrs now adopt the style of using social media platforms to teach and receive assignments from students via email, and also in class rooms education now adopts the style if using projectors and laptops to teach students.

Education can be imparted amongst students by using social media platforms to to teach and share ideas, by creating learning groups on Facebook and WhatsApp and as long to pass latest academic information to one another. Application developers also have began creating applications such as text books for every subjects for every level of education that assist students to learn, and these applications speeding up learning and serves as a tutor to some students bin their week subjects.