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Benefits
Benefits: Social Media is defined as ‘Digital media and technologies for social interaction, communication, and creation and exchange of user-generated content’ According to Marion Gruber, there are benefits to using social media in education. These benefits include the facilitating of and focus on the faculties of networking, interaction, communication, sharing information, collaboration, participation, and knowledge management. Other benefits frequently cited by scholars include the potential to "bridge formal and informal learning through participatory digital cultures", as well as promoting engagement. 'Main features of social media might benefit the development of teaching learning process'. Through internet and social media students can gather useful scientific information for their assignments or projects. According to Randy 'Teachers role is not only to disseminate knowledge but also help learners know how to learn himself'. Mazer and Murphy depict that Social Media now penetrated in every field of educational arena.'These online social networks are increasingly being used for different reasons not only by students but by teachers as well' Falam1216 (talk) 05:26, 4 December 2018 (UTC)

(a) Social Media acts as the channel of communication: Effective communication between teachers and students are very important. According to Faizi,'If no proper communication between teacher and students is available, both teaching and learning will become difficult' Faizi also added that Media channels like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube can enhance communication enormously among students themselves, professors and staffs.

(b) Media tools engage students: Students engage themselves maximum of their time in music, movies, news feeds, games through different media platforms. Faizi suggest using Google classroom or Google apps learners can explore significant resources and can save time, money and space. 'the dynamic and participatory nature of many social media resources could be used to engage or re-engage bored or shy students' Rutherford explain as social features of social media attracted millions the same way media draws the attention of students too. According to McLoughlin a poor student may feel more comfortable to express his ideas and share resources on Facebook, Twitter, or YouTube.

(c) Social Media enhance collaboration: Another significant benefit is that media foster collaboration, it means working together intellectually and socially to achieve certain goal. According Ingram and Hathorn, collaboration critically means participation, interaction and synthesis; Wikipedia is the best example of it. Prince claimed that the core element of collaborative learning is that emphasis is on student interactions rather than on learning as a solitary activity. Research from Dowley has demonstrated that students learn better when they are actively involved in the process, and that students working in groups tend to learn more and retain it longer than in other instructional formats.Falam1216 (talk) 04:44, 5 December 2018 (UTC) Falam1216 (talk) 01:41, 1 December 2018 (UTC)