Social media promotes self-directed learning, which prepares students to search for answers and make decisions independently. When reinforced in a classroom setting, these social media skills can be guided and refined to produce better learning outcomes and critical awareness. Social media also allows students more freedom to connect and collaborate beyond the physical classroom, which means students anywhere can start to experience the globally connected world long before they enter the workforce.

Hi! Yes I also agree with the challenges associated with developing countries regarding conducting lessons via online or social media. However, recording the lecture sessions and posting it in the facebook or youtube can help in transmitting the information quite faster among the learners to a certain extent can also be helpful in the current situation. Thanks.

Yes, a lot of my colleagues use WhatsApp and Facebook for various teaching elements, but I prefer to record my lectures and place them on YouTube!

I believe the answer is yes. many reasons for doing this. However, the challenge is not on the technology or methodology, but the people mindset especially in developing countries. If they come to a class without no preparation because they expect someone will teach them everything, this abundant resource becomes useless. a bit about the media, I think social media just as part of an LMS, not an LMS.

Some people using social media for teaching There are many studies about social media in teaching.

Why not.

Take Google Classroom for instance. It is a virtual classroom that helps students and teachers organize assignments, boost collaboration, and foster better communication.

There are Many Ways Teachers Can Use Social Media in the Classroom:

It's no secret that social media is in the middle of most people's lives. Social media influences how we live, how we work, and now more than ever, how we learn. According to a recent study, more and more teachers and professors are incorporating social media into their classrooms to engage students and support their educational development, whether online or in person. In short – social media is shaping and influencing how students learn and interact today.

Social media promotes self-directed learning, which prepares students to search for answers and make decisions independently. When reinforced in a classroom setting, these social media skills can be guided and refined to produce better learning outcomes and critical awareness. Social media also allows students more freedom to connect and collaborate beyond the physical classroom, which means students anywhere can start to experience the globally connected world long before they enter the workforce.

Teaching and learning are good activities. If someone is using social media for this purpose, there is no harm.

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Dear Idrees Zebari , Abdelkader Mohamed Elsayed , it seems to me that at the present time given the context of the COID-19 pandemic, many students do not have access to a notebook or computer to follow online teaching activities. The use of social media can help reduce the loss of these students, who only have a mobile device such as a cell phone. Audio files can help a lot in a collaboration network and reach these students quickly. But also pools and quiz.

Absolutely yes

Dear Idrees Zebari , social media when its used properly can be a powerful tool to engage your students. Especially if you are teaching courses on Marketing and Media it can facilitate many of your assignments and projects even if the students do not have good connection. I agree with Agnaldo Arroio comments on that.

I have used it in an Engineering Mathematics course at CPUT for the past five years.We started with facebook and now move to WhatsApp.It works supper great.i have some research finding if you check on my publication list.

Yes, but I think that teaching isn't the right word. Learning, via participating is discourse which comes from a varied pool of people could be considered to be extremely beneficial.

While 'Social Media' could be seen as a repetitively new invention, when broken down it is just people participating in a dialogue in some capacity.

I agree with Brandon J. Barnard on the use of the word "learning" instead of the word "teaching" in the context of "social learning". I think that the use of social media for learning can give good results.

In our era , people are addicted to social media .Hence ; learning at the social media platform may play a pivotal role in grabbing the interest .Also , at times like these , that is , the pandemic ; it can and is proving to be a best platform , sufficing the social distancing norms .

I agree with Abdelkader Mohamed Elsayed; social media has become ubiquitous in our lives outside the classroom. I, therefore, think that it is important for us as lecturers to "keep up with the times". I believe we need to use appropriate technologies, including social media, could work in our modules to keep our students engaged. When students graduate, they do not only need the relevant subject knowledge but they also need the required technology skills that are required by today's employers.

In principle, I also agree with Brandon J. Barnard and Yacine Lafifi that social media is perhaps better framed in the context of online learning as opposed to online teaching. However, I have used Twitter as a teaching tool when, for example, I noted some of the students' handles/bios could cause problems later on in life, e.g. when they apply for jobs. I highlighted the fact that one's digital footprint lasts forever. I then tweeted links to what recruitment agencies and/or potential employers look at when they screen candidates.

Personally I like Twitter because it limits one in the number of characters that one can use and it is light on data consumption. My initial idea was merely to use Twitter as a method to keep students on track with my module/s as an alternate method of communication to be used in conjunction with the primary online communication method, i.e. the University's LMS. With time, I have responded to substantive (subject content) queries via Twitter.

Currently, I rely on Twitter quite a lot. It is easier and cheaper to access than other methods of online communications. Through my presence on Twitter, I like to believe, I maintained a fairly close connection with my students during these trying times - I am here and available albeit online and not in person, by, for example, tweeting the government's recommendations in respect of the pandemic, in addition to module-related arrangements and information.

Yes of course social media plays important role in Learning and Teaching activity. Current scenario social media play 40 % but in future it will be change up to 80% activity done using different kind of social media.

I guess it is quite useful to use it as an extra resource. It is possible to propose content production for social media, for example, related to the subject; or even sharing extra material through groups.

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