I second Laleh Taheri’s opinion
Using Social Media to our advantage or disadvantage is our choice. It is a new kind of challenge that all of us have to tackle in this era Especially while training our childre.
You can join so many online courses, MOOC platforms and sharpen your skills and persevere your passion.
You can collaborate with people around the globe to do a particular project.
It completely depends on how the user use it. If you devote yourself to check and answer any single notification from all the SM apps and platforms, of course it is a distraction. But if you use it deliberately, it can be quite useful tool for learning and excellence. By deliberate use, I mean
1. putting a specific time for checking and answering notifications,
2. selecting the educative SM related to our goals, and priorities, for example as a researcher or professional, it's better to spend most of our time on ResearchGate and LinkedIn rather than mere recreational SM platforms,
3. connecting with the people in the same field and communicate about our ideas and work, ....
this list can goes on and on.
I welcome any other contribution to this list; this is my own strategy in using SM, I hope I can learn some more strategies here.
Social Media can be used as a learning tool. However, it also has several pitfalls .
I second Laleh Taheri’s opinion
Using Social Media to our advantage or disadvantage is our choice. It is a new kind of challenge that all of us have to tackle in this era Especially while training our childre.
You can join so many online courses, MOOC platforms and sharpen your skills and persevere your passion.
You can collaborate with people around the globe to do a particular project.
Dear,
Helen Gouse
Kenneth Chukwu
Sunayana Manoj
Laleh Taheri
Laverne A Davis.
Thank you all for your prompt response and vital comments. Your suggestions are commendable.
social media is both distraction and tool for learning .because it is based on the mentality of the user
It depends on the person that how he / she is using it.
Content on social media such as posts, Comments, chats etc are used in research as an information source, As large volume of data is available on it.
So it depends on the usage of the person.
You are quite correct Dr. N. Jariwala. Thank you for your contribution.
Regards,
Modestus.
That depends on the platform you belong too. For me academic platform such as RG suits my job and is helping my career.
You are quite correct Segun Michael Abegunde. Thank you for your useful comment.
Regards, MO.
Social media may be used effectively for learning. Searching of required information is easy and convenient.
One can interact with fellow researchers and others to exchange views on variety of topics and refine thoughts.
However excessive use of time on social media will not leave much time for other necessary activities.
It is meant to be, but students particularly are not taking the advantage of social media for academic purposes at all.
You can check my published paper on social medium : http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1755/17-21.pdf
Thank you Sir, this is a very good question.
They are good sources of discussion (who cares what area), but to me, it is important (Not all platforms though) for research into both scientific and social information
Kind regards
Dear Andrew Mtewa
In my opinion, Social media is a tool of a distraction than a tool for learning. Today because of social media we lost very good habits reading books, collection information from teachers , books etc.and we are spending more time on social media just for online chating, or watching video etc.
Regards
Dr. Kamath Madhusudhana
It depends on the users. If they use it as a resource tool it is advantageous else there are disadvantages too.
But according to me and for me it is very advantageous..
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