Impacts of social media on students Impacts of social media on students Impacts of social media on students Impacts of social media on students Impacts of social media on students

1. impacts of social media on
students
By – Nitu Yadav

2. 1. Janak charan
2. Nitu yadav
3. Divya wagh
Group member

3. SOCIAL MEDIA

4. • the means of interactions among people in which they create, share, and exchange
information and ideas in virtual communities and networks .
• GeoCities, created in 1994, was one of the first social media sites. The concept was
for users to create their own websites, characterized by one of six "cities" that were
known for certain characteristics .
• The popularity of the social networking sites increased rapidly in the last decade
WHAT IS SOCIAL MEDIA?

5. • Social media & digital technologies have a huge influence on a student's education
• These 2 concepts may be beneficial at times but they can also negatively impact on a
child’s education, health and communication skills.

6. • Students have become victims of social media more than anyone else because they get
attracted to these sites to kill boredom during studying
• Devices that are used most with social media include, cell phones, laptops, computers,
tablets, etc.

7. Some negative effects of social media include....

8. Multitasking
• Once students become addicted to these sites they attempt to multi-task while studying.
• This reduces their academic performance and their ability to concentrate on a task
because of distractions brought by social media.
This is demonstrable and measurable and eventually will
collapse the classroom (look around right now). Multi-tasking
is not the same thing as synthesis!

9. Time Wastage
• Several students are spending too much unnecessary time on social sites rather than
doing their homework
• They tend not be prepared for class. (not different than before)
• Instead of taking time and trying to deeper analyze the task they rush through it. (very
much true)

10. Reduction in real life contact
• student's ability to communicate face to face has also been affected.
• forget how to communicate with each other in person.
• they are not able to collaborate in discussions and this reduces their communication
skills.
But digital communication might evolve to be better  the
mash-up world

11. Question
If social networking sites were permanently cut out from your life, how would you be
affected? Would it be something negative that would hold you back or would you
eventually get over it ?

12. A students learning and communication skills can also be affected by digital
technologies.

13. How often do you check your phone?
Question #2

16. Some negative effects of digital gadgets include....

17. Reducedlearning
• Many students are dependent on getting information off sites like Google.
• This has reduced their focus on learning and retaining information since they are reliant
on the accessibility of information on social media.

18. Addiction and Distraction
• Many students have become addicted to these sites and digital gadgets and this
results into many distractions while they are trying to study or prepare for a test.
• This has a negative impact on their academic performance.
• They start getting low grades in school due to the lack of studying and reduction in
writing skills.
There is no evidence that this is actually happening on average.

19. Poor grammar
• Many students writing skills have been affected.
• Rather than improving in their writing, they are doing worse in their spelling, grammar
and communication skills due to the use of jargon and logo’s.
Unclear if this is bad; what is important is communication and understanding.
However, student’s ability to make a coherent, evidenced based argument is way
down. No most writing is based on anecdotal evidence. This is a real problem.

20. Dependency on spell check features
Digital technologies and social sites both have spell check and this reduces several
students’ ability to write without relying on a spell check feature.
Much evidence for this.

21. Summary
• Was the printing press disruptive? Was it ultimately positive or negative?
• What about Television? Didn’t that just encourage passivity and brainwashing and
programmed society?
• What about Movies?
• Social media is just another emerging communications technology  maybe we will use
it wisely or maybe we never will …

22. Thank
you