Social media as a user-friendly learning platform

Jr., Teacher III Salocon Elementary School, Panitan District

SOCIAL media has impacted us the way we can never even imagine. Social media has changed the way people live but the question is “did it change people for better or for worst?”

Nowadays, it is no wonder that almost everyone knows how to use social media. It even seems like a necessity to know how to use it. With internet becoming a need in every home or office, majority of people who are online spend most of their time on social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Gmail and the like.

If there is a good thing about social media, that is the fact thay people can utilize these sites as learning materials to study and learn about almost everything.

Basically, social media plays a vital role in the education aspect.

For instance, it promotes learning that has gone beyond classrooms because social learning is being introduced in almost all the leading electric learning websites.

A s uccessful e - l e a r ni ng experience is what we all wanted to accomplish using social media as one of its tools. That is why, it is very essential that social media must be seen by students as user friendly platforms. Thus, it must not contain explicit l anguages, uncensored videos, and those that could harm students learning ways.

To conclude, social media is a wonderful place to interact with friends and peers. But if the same thing is used in a wrong way then it becomes very disastrous. The key word for a successful online classes is to use social media as a user friendly platform. (