Social Networks: Impact on Teaching and Learning in Schools and Classrooms

Social networking has become a widespread WWW-based phenomenon of the late twentieth century that has been taken up especially enthusiastically by the young. Many social networking sites and possibilities have burgeoned into huge numbers of people being registered for the various groups to the point where hundreds of millions are engaged in frequent communication and socializing using their computers, telephones and massive amounts of time and energy. The implications of this ubiquitous take-up of the phenomenon for schools and classrooms have not escaped the attention of educators, and many enthusiastically have advocated bringing the approaches into classroom activities and utilizing the appeal they have for young students to motivate and engage them in learning.