Importance Of Social Media In Education

Social media is a countless array of Internet based tools and platforms that increase and enhance the sharing of information which is common nowadays. It appeared after internet dawned. Social media not only use in communication, but also involve in education. (Laura, 2014). In short, Joseph (2013) said that social media allow students to participate, converse, share, collaborate and link up .

First of all, social media helps in proficiency of studying. For instance, teachers and students use social media to improve their collaboration learning and information sharing (Junco, Helbergert, & Loken, 2011). As it used in academic settings that engage and facilitate student learning (Kabilan, Ahmad, & Abidin, 2010). Next, it also offers teachers

For example, Rambe (2008) resulted that having the group discussions online by social media is a best choice ever. Therefore, teachers can always integrate and update the course content to their students easily that offer an opportunity for students and teachers to discuss and interact with the same content anywhere. At the same time, it also provides instant pathways for disseminating and enhancing course-related knowledge outside the confines of the traditional classroom (Fewkes & McCabe, 2012; Hurt et al., 2012; Junco et al., 2011; Top, 2012). Beside that, it produces a network of opportunities to increase student learning beyond the traditional classroom setting. Hurt et al.(2012) demonstrate that students are allowed to build the conversations that not related to content directly for encourage them trying to enlarge their dialogue beyond that of the prescribed topic to increases their comprehension. Then, students can share and co-creating all the information online that originally posted by teacher. The given topic can requires a student to understand its appropriateness by having discussions through social media which really make students have better understanding of their contents (Lin, Hou, Wang, & Chang, 2013). (Annetta et al., 2009; Frye et al., 2010) found that students are able to understand content further after made the connections across multiple sources through a virtual community to obtain some common