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Facebook is a social networking service originally launched as TheFacebook on February 4, 2004, before changing its name to simply Facebook in August 2005. [1] It was founded by Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes. [2]
Facebook has its origins at Harvard University, and given universities' rapid uptake of technologies like email, it was to be expected that Facebook would be looked to by teachers, students and management alike as a potential delivery and communication system (Freeman 2009).
Facebook can further facilitate students’ learning processes. Facebook and students’ performance It is certain that the way in which students use Facebook can determine the effect of its use on students’ academic achievement. Facebook has a positive effect on students’ achievement when used for educational purposes.
the literature about using Facebook to facilitate collaborative learning activities among peers. The aim was to investigate and reflect on students’ perspectives regarding the use of Facebook and its influence on students’ collaborative learning, motivation of communication, and peer connection, in higher education. The guiding
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of the current study is to explore positive and negative aspects of student-teacher communication via Facebook, as perceived by students in secondary education. Background: Student-teacher relationship is key to students' cognitive, social and emotional development.
Students’ use of Facebook is profoundly informal and often at a tangent with the official learning aims of educators (Stutzman, 2005). It seems that the formal use of Facebook as a tool for rigorous academic study is fairly rare, but the use of Facebook as a tool for teaching and learning has been on the rise recently. According to Selwyn
For this reason, the teacher chose Facebook so that students had a social network as a supplementary platform of the subject where they could write during the semester and as a collaborative learning tool. The popularity of social media among young learners provides opportunites for students to communicate using English for academic purposes.
Education was a process that involved three steps, first was Shravana (hearing) which is the acquisition of knowledge by listening to the Shrutis. The second is Manana (reflection) wherein the students think, analyze and make inferences. Third, is Nididhyāsana in which the students apply the knowledge in their real life.