For Issues in Social MEdia

1. How Social
Media Impacts
Education
By: Chelsey, Omar & Joon

2. Agenda
 Introduction
 How education has changed over the years
 Timeline of social media
 Positive Effects of Social Media on Education
 Negative Effects of Social Media on
Education
 Social Networking in Kindergarten Classrooms
 Classroom of the Future
 Is School Easier or More Difficult Than the Past

3. Agenda
 How Social Media Can Help Your Career
 How Schools Can Integrate Social Media
Into Classroom
 Twitter in the Classroom
 Integrating Skype into the Classroom
 Utilizing the Dropbox Function
 Facebook for Better Productivity
 Webinars
 YouTube in the Classroom

4. Introduction
The following slideshare presentation will
discuss the impact that social media has on
education.

5. How has education changed
over the years?
 Chalkboards have been replaced by online forums.
 Emailing teachers has been replaced with Tweets and
Facebook Messages.
 Calling or meeting up with group members has turned into
online Skype Sessions.
 Accessing resources has been made easier via online
tutorials and YouTube videos.
 Books are now being shared over social media platforms
through ebooks.

6. Timeline of Social Media

7. Students’ usage of Social
Media

8. Positive Effects of Social Media
on Education
 Facebook Messenger
and the ability to make
Facebook groups allows
for ease of
communication
between students.
 Individuals can message
their peers and initiate
group meetings which
will lead to increased
productivity!

9. Positive Effects of Social Media
on Education
 Increases users familiarity with
technology as social media
platforms can be accessed via
several devices including
laptops, tablets and
smartphones.
 Knowing how to effectively use
technology is critical to
success in school and
workplace.

10. Positive Effects of Social Media
on Education
 Students are forced to use
creativity when designing
their social media profiles.
 Creativity is important for
individuals interested in
website design, computer
science, business, and
more.
 This is a skill that is generally
not focused on in school.

11. Positive Effects of Social Media
on Education
 Social networking sites that
are visually stimulating
such as Pinterest and
Instagram could
potentially help generate
new business ideas.
 Students are encouraged
to join LinkedIn in order to
grow their professional
contacts and be
successful in their career.

12. Positive Effects of Social Media
on Education
 Due to the enormous market of Social
Media, students are able to
communicate globally and acquire
knowledge about different cultures
 Social Media makes collaboration easier
for the students

13. Positive Effects of Social Media
on Education
 Teachers are able to use Social Media as
a Educational tools
 Facebook can be used to answer students’
questions about homework
 Students are able to interact more with their
instructors
 Teachers will be able to understand their
students better

14. Negative Effects of Social
Media on Education
 With more time being spent
online, less time is left for
individuals to interact in
person.
 Does not help improve
verbal communication skills.
 Lax attitude to spelling and
grammar which may cross
over into school work;
which causes a need for
spell check.

15. Negative Effects of Social
Media on Education
 Students sometimes forget that the internet
has a long memory, which means the
information (photos, videos, status updates)
they post will be visible for years thereafter.
 Regardless of what Institution individuals have
studied at, if future employers check social
networking sites and see past inappropriate
behaviour they are likely to toss out your
resume.

16. Negative Effects of Social
Media on Education
 Social media can be used to
make negative comments
about educators online.
 Cyberbullying is made easier
via social networking sites.
 Harassment and shaming of
peers may arise due to the
increase in social networking
users.

17. Negative Effects of Social
Media on Education
 Students rely on experiences and
knowledge only from the Social Media
Networks, other than real life experiences
 Students prefer to interact through Social
Media Networks than real life interactions.
 Due to increase time spent on Social
Media, students lose sense of time-
management and need for physical
activities.

18. Negative Effects of Social
Media on Education
 Students are distracted during their
classes, due to Social Media applications
installed on their smart phones.
 The interest in education is slowly shifting
towards Social Media.

19. Social Networking Making It’s Way
Into Kindergarten Classrooms!
 Social media is now being
integrated into Kindergarten
classrooms.
 For example, one teacher
encourages her class to tweet
their parents and/or family
members while at school.
 This enables students to gain
familiarity with technology and
social networks at a young
age.

20. Social media helping students
 Students are able to develop themselves
through Social Media
 There are thousands of posts being
posted every second from all over the
world. Some may be useful and helpful to
the student
 Some students post pictures of their art
works on Social Media to receive
feedbacks.

21. Social media helping students
 Many students show their talents through
Social Media Networks
 Social Media can be use for various
purposes by the students
 It can also be a source of information.

22. Classroom of the Future
 All schools will be completely
paperless and learning will be
accompanied by laptops and
tablets.
 3D printers will enter classrooms.
 Students will begin to learn
coding at a young age and
develop IT skills.
 New social networking sites will
arise and be integrated into
school learning environments.

23. School Has Become Easier as a Result
of these Advancements?
FOR AGAINST
• It’s easier to get in contact with
your classmates which leads to
higher productivity.
• Easier for students to collaborate
with each other and think outside
the box.
• Students can share resources for
learning via social networking sites
such as Facebook.
• Online forums enable students to
ask general questions and receive
answers from other users.
• Students can ask teachers questions
via instant messaging or email.
• i.e) Sheridan Slate enables instant
messaging & emails to be sent to
contacts.
• Social networking sites like Facebook
& Twitter lead to students becoming
distracted in the classroom, taking
away from in-class learning.
• Social media sites are addicting and
leave less time for studying.

24. How Social Media Can Help
your Career
 Blogger allows users to publish their academic articles
online and establish credibility.
 LinkedIn is a professional networking site that enables
members to connect with other professionals, find
jobs, and acquire contacts.
 Social networking allows you to create and maintain
relationships as business is “all about who you know.”
 Having a thorough knowledge of social media
platforms is important in careers such as event
planning, marketing, and more.

25. Social Media in Post-
Secondary Education
 Social Media can be used to develop study
major related skills
 Ex) Marketing majors can use Social Media as
an advertisement tool
 Students are able to interact outside of school
 Since many post-secondary students have part-
time job, they are not able to stay at school at
all times. Students can use Social Media to keep
in touch and collaborate with each out for a
project.

26. Social Media in Post-
Secondary Education
 Professors and Students can be more
engaged through Social Media
 Students can form a community with
other students through Social Media
 Students are able to learn relationship
building skills though Social Media
Networks. It is essential to have
relationship building skills for students.

27. Social Media is Here to Stay!
 Since social media isn’t going
anywhere, we must learn what best
practices can be applied in order to
effectively integrate social media into
schools.

28. How Schools Can Integrate Social
Media into the Classroom
1. Encourage students to blog and develop
their written communication skills
1. English Literature skills
2. Grammar Skills
3. Writing Skills
2. Encourage students to publish their well-
written assignments online
1. Writing Skills
2. Grammar Skills

29. How Schools Can Integrate
Social Media into the
Classroom
1. Art competitions online through Pinterest
and/or Instagram to promote creative
thinking
1. Self-Development
2. Develop Art skills
2. Teachers should use Podcasts and YouTube
videos in order to enhance student learning.
1. Students understand the content better
2. Possibility of increase in students grade

30. Twitter in the Classroom
1. Encourage students to follow their
career idols on Twitter
2. Teachers can tweet regarding
upcoming assignments and exams
3. Have a Twitter Party for students!
4. Useful for hybrid and online classes
5. Use a common hashtag so your students
can have an online discussion/debate
6. Connect with other classrooms

31. Integrating Skype into the
Classroom
 Skype is a great way to
deliver lectures online
 Online students needs to
have connection with the
teachers
 Skype solve the problem
of geographical distance
 It also saves students
money of travel

32. Facebook for Educational use
 Class mates are able to connect with
each other outside of school
 It will be easier for teachers to deliver
information to the students
 Teachers will be able to understand their
students better

33. Utilizing Dropbox Function
 Teachers can use Dropbox to
have a similar look as slate
where they can drop all slides
as well as lectures
 This process will save a lot of
time for the teacher not to
send out email every week
 This process will also help
student to be organized with
their projects and notes

34. Facebook for Better
Productivity!
 Facebook can organize
event and important
dates for students
 Sharing online resources
will help catch the
student attention as well
as help them read it
 It will help absent student
to be in the circle to
know what they have
missed

35. Webinars
 Webinars is like a classroom
but its online and only the
teacher can talk
 This can be used to help
students to share it over
social media plat forms
 This also help students to be
in the same lecture even if
they are at home

36. YouTube in the Classroom
 YouTube will help
teacher have more time
to teach
 YouTube can also use
the video as an
animation to help explain
better
 It also help the student to
refer back to the
explanation of the
teacher

37. Challenges of Online Classes
 Peers or educators may be
unresponsive to emails and
instant messages
 Difficulty finding rubrics and
online instructions
 You may experience technical
difficulties
 For example, you may have
technical issues when trying to
participate in real time
conferences

38. Challenges of Online Classes
 Challenges of online class could be not
understanding the content
 Some students may or may not feel
confortable connecting online and prefer
face to face conversation
 Some students might do better on an
actual traditional class setting

39. Conclusion
 In summary, social media has progressed over
the years to become increasingly advanced.
 As a result of these advancements, social media
is now being integrated into the classroom
setting.
 Our research indicates there is much debate
over whether social networking has a more
positive or more negative influence on
classroom learning.

40. Conclusion
 A few of the positive effects social networking
has on education includes increased
productivity, collaboration an ease of
communication.
 However, there are also numerous negative
effects including the potential for student
harassment, slandering of teachers online and
social networking as a classroom distraction.

41. Conclusion
 We have concluded from our research
that despite the pros and cons of social
networking, it will continue to flourish.
 Therefore, we must find a way to improve
upon the positive effects of social media
on learning while minimizing or completely
eliminating the negative ones.

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45. Thank you