SOCIAL MEDIA IN EDUCATION: THE ABSENT ATTENDEE
Journal Title: Problems of Education in the 21st Century - Year 2018, Vol 76, Issue 5
Abstract
Interaction and Information technologies have reshaped our live today, and nowadays' students and teachers have a massive use of smart phones, iPads and other portable devices; moreover, they are continually looking for cutting edge technologies. But often the use of these devices is not in ways anticipated by technology proponents. All these smart phones and other portable devices are equipped or ready for social media applications like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, WhatsApp, Telegram, and Instagram, Snapchat, which are part of what is known as Social Web 2.0, best characterized by the notions of social interaction, content sharing, and collective intelligence.
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Saleh A. Alabdulkareem
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