Social media and use of social media in classroom

                                       Social media and use of social media in classroom

 Social media refers to the means of interactions among people in which they create, share, and exchange information and ideas in virtual communities and networks. Web 2.0 is allows to creating visual things and sharing visual and auditory. The widespread use of social media has increased the use of web 2.0. Especially the there are millions of users of social media tools such as Facebook and Twitter. Millions of user actively uses Twitter and Facebook every day. And they regularly share something such as photographs or videos from followers or friends.

   Social media allows;

              ·           Sharing

              ·         Communication

              ·         Collaboration

              ·         Current news

    In the education social media is;

             ·          Develop communication skills

             ·  Improve participation and socia    cohesion

             ·          Empowers relationships with friends

             ·          Allows the realization of collaborative learning

            ·          Easily applicable

Facebook allows to collaboration learning in the education. And it allows students to develop research and querying skills. It provide discussion skill from the students because they can do comment the discussion topics. Student’s critical thinking and problem-solving skills can be increase. And they can learn; How to use the social media? It means they can learn media literacy.