5 Reasons Why Middle Schools Should Use Social Media For Education

“What is interesting is the power and the impact of social media...So we must try to use social media in a good way.”

- Malala Yousafzai (Female education activist, The youngest ever Nobel Prize laureate)

Social media is a magical wonder of technology that can simply dismiss the idea of “communication gap” by connecting the whole world with its one solid string. But, it is also an undeniable fact that social media creates severe addiction. A recent research came out with a report that 75% of all internet users are attached with social media network(s). Another research has shown, 92% teen social media users come online regularly- within that percentage 24% of them accepted the fact that they stay online “almost constantly”. In the teenage years, when students are going through their middle school education period, they are not just increasing their intellectual level through academic training, during this time, they are also gradually becoming more and more exposed towards the outer world and environment. At this crucial time, when they step inside the world of social media networking, it brings some serious changes in their academic, social and personal lives.

Let's take a look exactly how middle schools can improve their teenager students' academic foundation by including social media into their education.

Improve students' participation

If middle school teachers include social media within their academic training and allow their students to use social media with certain clauses and limits, it will increase their attachment with studies and the students will be more interested to participate in their education and classroom activities than earlier.

Easy, fast and flexible tool for sharing content

If used correctly, social media can create a strong bridge between middle school students and the teachers. Through proper and continuous communication, teachers can share every online academic resources with their students quickly and very easily. The students can also acquire those contents only through the clicks of their fingers.

Assistance for homework

Social media can help the students even in the time of homework. Using social media networks as tools they can connect with their respective teachers and classmates whenever they feel stuck anywhere. By getting spontaneous response, students can smoothly overcome the complications of their subjects and can get hold of the subjects more effectively.

Bringing all in the same page at once

Social media can help the students and the teachers to maintain successful two-way communication. By using social media parents of those students can also connect with respective teachers and can communicate them directly if needed. Not only that, teachers can post and share class events and activities through social media. This will help both the students and their guardians to be aware of class activities and prepare themselves accordingly.

Teaching proper use of social media

If school personnel encourage the students to use social media as academic and communication tool, they will also guide them about the proper ways of using social media and stay safe from its disadvantageous effects. In this manner, middle school students will be able to use social media effectively without getting into complications like cyber-bullying. By learning the proper usage method, middle school students will be able to keep themselves away from any kind of addiction by maintaining healthy use of social media networking sites.

How social media is distracting the middle school students from their academic orientation is a known fact. For example, a large section of this age group is literally addicted to social media and constantly getting detached from general human communication. Some of them are the victims of cyber-bullying incidents. But, all technological invention till now has brought some of its own benefits and costs along with it. Similarly, Social media also has its own disadvantages, but it can mould the middle school students' career orientation to the right way by allowing them to use it as a tool of their own intellectual and social advancement.

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