Student Views About the Use of Facebook and
Student’ Views About the Use of Facebook and Whats. App on Education: A Survey Among the Undergraduate Students of Dr. Birinchi Kumar Barooah College Prepared by Juli Thakuria Librarian Dr. B. K. B. College Puranigudam, Nagaon, Assam Bishal Saikia Student Department of Sociology Dibrugarh University Juli Thakuria and Bishal Saikia, NACLIN 2016, October 26 -28, 2016, Tezpur University, Tezpur 1
INTRODUCTION Social Networking Site • An interpersonal interaction online communication • Worldwide phenomenon impacted the world in numerous way. • Students (age between 18 -25 mostly)as well as Teacher’s • Professional education, curriculum education and learning etc. Uses Current Status • In India, 95. 16 millions Facebook Users and in Whats. App over one billion monthly active user (2016). • 52% of them are in the age group of 18 -24. In general college student are more interested in using the social networking site in every field compare to any other age group. Juli Thakuria and Bishal Saikia, NACLIN 2016, October 26 -28, 2016, Tezpur University, Tezpur 2
OBJECTIVES • To study the use of social media on education. • To find out the activities and reasons for using Whats. App and Facebook. • To observe the use of Whats. App and Facebook among the undergraduate students. Juli Thakuria and Bishal Saikia, NACLIN 2016, October 26 -28, 2016, Tezpur University, Tezpur 3
Methodology Method : Survey Tool: Questionnaire, Personal Interview Sample Size: 500 Respondent : 387 Juli Thakuria and Bishal Saikia, NACLIN 2016, October 26 -28, 2016, Tezpur University, Tezpur 4
(48. 84%) (21. 89%) (29. 97%) (41. 08%) (34. 62%) (24. 29%) Juli Thakuria and Bishal Saikia, NACLIN 2016, October 26 -28, 2016, Tezpur University, Tezpur 5
Awareness of Social Media SNS Account Availability SNS Account Yes No No Answer Respondents 216 72 99 (55. 81%) (18. 60%) (25. 58%) Juli Thakuria and Bishal Saikia, NACLIN 2016, October 26 -28, 2016, Tezpur University, Tezpur 6
Availability of SNS on Whats. App and Facebook Account on Facebook and Whats. App SNS Site No of Students Only on Facebook 106 (27. 39%) Only on Whats. App 67 (17. 31%) On both 43 (11. 11%) Total 216 (55. 81%) Juli Thakuria and Bishal Saikia, NACLIN 2016, October 26 -28, 2016, Tezpur University, Tezpur 7
MAJOR FINDINGS • Finding revealed that 311 (80. 36%) students uses internet for learning and 76 (19. 64%) are not using internet for learning. • Majority of the students 288(74. 42%) are aware about different types of social media. A few students 99(25. 58%) are not aware about any social media. • 216 (55. 81%) no of respondents have social networking site account and 72 (18. 60%) has no any social networking site account. 106(27. 39%) has only on Whats. App, 67 (17. 31%) has only Facebook and 43 (11. 11%) has account on both the SNS. • There is different purpose for which the respondent used the SNS. The highest number of respondents uses Facebook and Whats. App for entertainment. They also use SNS for gathering knowledge. Juli Thakuria and Bishal Saikia, NACLIN 2016, October 26 -28, 2016, Tezpur University, Tezpur 8
• The study revealed that students mainly used SNS in comments on other post and instant message purpose. However some students send/ received SMS to their old & new friend. • and twice or thrice in a week. • students also pointed out that due to the class work they have not got the sufficient time for using SNS. Electricity, security & privacy and lack of money (in respect of recharging net pack) are some of the problem faced by the student. • Most of the students are highly satisfied using the SNS. 9 Juli Thakuria and Bishal Saikia, NACLIN 2016, October 26 -28, 2016, Tezpur University, Tezpur
Importance of social media on Education. * Helps in preparing class notes/ assignments/ project. * Helps in group discussion. * Easy to interact with friends. * Helpful for sharing up to date knowledge. * Sharing information about seminar/ workshop. * Development of communication skill, self evaluation, finding job, news can be achieved through SNS. Juli Thakuria and Bishal Saikia, NACLIN 2016, October 26 -28, 2016, Tezpur University, Tezpur 10
CONCLUSION • Social networking has become a regular habit for all of us including teens and adults. • The study has revealed the fact that education has also been quite a large extent influenced by social media. • Social networking sites like Twitter, Facebook, Whats. App and many more, which can help students to get better feedback from friends and related community. • There are so many negative effect of whatsapp and facebook on education; The other negative effect on students is that they are spending too much time on social sites, and much lesser time on socializing in person. • Considering all of the pros and cons, it is necessary to develop certain regulations over the use of such social networking sites, especially for high school and college students. Juli Thakuria and Bishal Saikia, NACLIN 2016, October 26 -28, 2016, Tezpur University, Tezpur 11
Thank You All Juli Thakuria and Bishal Saikia, NACLIN 2016, October 26 -28, 2016, Tezpur University, Tezpur 12
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