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Social networking site endorses both collaboration and active learning. These sites build up engagement between tutors and students and involve them providing greater opportunities for communication between administrators and teachers. Thus there are a lot of educational benefits in these sites. Social Networking sites are taking its new phase and they are widening opportunities that it may be open to everyone across the globe for the use of education.
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Educational Benefits of Social Networking Sites Today, technology provides a lot of opportunities for education that can be accessed by everyone around the globe. The educational field has completely transformed ever since the Internet and technology are included in the equation. The University of Minnesota had a research on social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook and found that the social networking sites have a great impact for educational growth for students in high school.
Social Networking Websites That Have Effective Educational Benefits • EDMODO: Edmodo is the largest social networking website used mainly for education purposes. As per the survey, more than 13 million people are using this website effectively. • ENGLISH BABY : Teaching conversational English is the main objective of the English Baby website. The analysis showed that nearly 1.5 million people across the globe are using this website and famous among chinese people • LIVEMOCHA : Livemocha is a social networking website used to teach various languages to the website users.The website consists of a collection of course material available in more than 38 different languages.
Social Networking Websites That Have Effective Educational Benefits • ACADMIA.EDU :Acadmia.edu is a science-related website built especially for scientists and the respective college students. It is a platform mainly for academic researchers and aficionados to share research materials and research papers to other website users. • COURSE CRACKER :Course Cracker is a network that enables students, teachers and parents to connect with each other resulting in the refinement of the learning process.This website allows the users to post their course material, quizzes, assignments and other sources related to education and also give them permission to access the posted content. • STUDENTS CIRCLE NETWORK:Social circle network is one among the latest editions of the club of social networking sites, consists of different course materials in the field of science, business, engineering, computing and humanities.
Social Networking Websites That Have Effective Educational Benefits: • 9TH PERIOD :The main focus of this website is on web applications and online tools.This website allows users who have similar interest to interact with each other without any discrepancies. • THE SYNAPSE :This website mainly concentrates on biology students, tutors and researchers all over the globe. This website acts as a great source of the latest happenings and development in biology, generally built on the Ning platform. • THE MOLECULAR FORCES : It is another website built on the Ning platform, focuses on physics and chemistry students, teachers and researchers. Teachers can able to distribute their study materials and learning approaches in this website. The website also acts as a great platform for sharing and asking questions about new ideas.
By Using Social Networking Sites, Students Get The Following Benefits: • Improvement of communication skills • Improvement of technology skills • Increase in the exposure of diverse views • Develop a positive image • Increase the engagement of learning
Conclusion • Despite promoting education among students, social networking sites also help them for successful employment. • Students who enter into the workforce can able to use social networking sites to network and thus find employment too. • Thus, social networking sites not only play a vital role in connecting people but also play an escalating role in education.
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