USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA IN EDUCATION AND LEARNING BY LEARNER'S PERSPECTIVE

Nowadays, people have demonstrated more and have consumed a lot of time of using social media site. Not only the college students but also the educators, and the belief about social media sites because in general social media and internet were very helpful to learning new digital literacy skills, it also improve knowledge, retention & understanding, it increasing class participation and motivating students; hence it found quite useful in education. For example Facebook provide better education services, which helps people to learn by exchanging information with one another as well as discussions. The use of social media in education provides students with the ability to get more useful information, to connect with learning groups and other educational systems that make education convenient. Social network tools afford students and institutions with multiple opportunities to improve learning methods. Through these networks, you can incorporate social media plug-in that enable sharing and interaction. It act as a medium where students can establish beneficial connections for their careers as it helps in academics like collaborative learning, it is use to learn about the curricular aspect, it also helps to solve academic problems, and so on. This can help students compile and produce useful content for research. Whether students are working on an assignment, working on a project or trying to gain more insight on a subject, some of the best information and results can be extracted from social media. For example, YouTube, Facebook, wikis, and blogs provide a huge amount of material on a wide range of subjects. This study is based mainly on the learner’s perspective on using social networking tools and the effect it has on the traditional style of learning and teaching. The data collection is through quantitative as well as qualitative. This study highlights the benefits of using social media tools for developing a new style of learning, and even the analysis the pitfalls regarding social media which affect the process of learning such as it causes distraction from learning, it has weaker critical thinking skills and also creativity, it reduces the searching capabilities, and so on.