The Use of Social Networking Sites as an Educational Tool Facebook, Twitter, Instagram

Abstract

Social media has become an integral part of our daily life with its various services and platforms. Nowadays, social networking sites as twitter ,instagram and facebook have been world-widely known for playing important roles in education. Today the online learning is contributing to foster knowledge. Therefore, this research project aims at investigating attitudes and perceptions toward the use of social networking sites as an educational tool.Facebook, Twitter and Instagram were taken as a sample in this research. The study revealed that both of teachers and students in high education tend to shift their learning style to the digital one by using different kinds of social networking sites. After collecting the data of this study,the results showed positive attitudes toward the use of SNS as an enhancing tool in education which enables its users to interact,communicate and exchange information through this service.