Social Networking as an Educational Tool

Social Networking as an Educational Tool

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Rennie & Mason (2008) mention web 2.0 tools in education field so affective as with these applications participation of students appears with cooperation. When it comes to the course design; working cooperately , creating, sharing, commenting, and interacting differentiate this new way of education tools from the traditional ones. These new tools create us an environment and access to use the facilitations in courses and achieve better learning. That is to say, tools play a part as a platform. These platforms let users to generate their own content which encourages creativity and flexibility for the learner and teacher in education field. Tools, also, provides the community work rather than individual work which means the outcomes reach to the large masses with the access of the tools. That's why social networking as an educational tool is very applicable in classroom environment as it facilitates learning with many beneficial characteristics and the requirement of our times, rather than the previous traditional educational tools, digital life has a place in educational field as well as other fields in our life and people are actively using it.