SOCIAL MEDIA IN EDUCATION

social networks can be used to improve the education of adults and students since they already have certain influence on the learners.

The main advantage is that students can further explore topics that they are interested in by using online social networking since they may have limited resources and time in school. Apart from that, for adults with unique interests, it is not easy to find friends with same interest to chat or discuss with. However, social networks link these people with the ones with same passion, where they can interact with people from different parts of the world.

On the other hand, teachers can take the advantage of students social networking abilities to create discussion forums, class blogs and online teaching. Such collaboration between students and teachers, acting social networks as a medium, can help the students gain opportunities to cover knowledge in a wider area and pursue interest.

Schools also use social networks as an intermediate to keep in touch with students.