Chapter:1
INTRODUCTION
1.1. INTRODUCTION
Education is the process by which people acquire knowledge,skills,habits,values or attitudes.The word ' education' is also used to describe the results of educational process.Education should help people become useful member of the Society.It should also help them to develop an appreciation in their cultural heritage and satisfying lives.
Education involves both teaching and learning.Sometimes people learn by teaching themselves.Parents are the child's and perhaps most important teachers.They teach their children attitudes,habits and values that help to shape their character and remain with them throughout life.
Education is important because it helps people get more out of life.It increases their knowledge and understanding of the world.Education also help people to adjust with change.This benefit has become increasingly important because social change today takes place with increasing speed and affect the life of more people.Education can help a person understand his chance and provide the like for adjusting them.
Nowadays in addition to consuming the old media ,such as T V,children and adolescents also spent a lot of time on new types of media.The concerns for the adolescents are increasing in this regard.Some issues related to these concerns include the effect of the media on violence,violent behaviors and crimes sexual relationship educational performance body image,drug abuse and smoking,alcohol abuse,food preference and change in the conversational language structure.
Some media authorities believe social media is a popular means of interaction for adolescents and Young adult,in which they create,share and exchange information in virtual communities and networks.Social media allows participants to be the creators and consumers of content and is then discussed.modified and shared.The platforms for social networking sites(facebook),internet forums blogs ,micro blogs(Twitter),photograph or video sharing etc.
Social media platforms enable to create and engage communities online.Growing by attraction,these communities connect ever greater members of like-minded people who people who share opinions,ideas and information of interest with one another.
The internet holds a vast array of information.The educational resources delivered on web pages are often very informative and useful for online students in nearly every topic of study.The internet is useful in helping students both construct and share their knowledge The use of internet technology by online communities may provide mobile learning resources in synchronous or asynchronous modes.
E-learning aims to deliver instruction to students not present in the classroom.It provide assess to learning resources when the instructor and students are separated by time,distance or both.
Learning is the outcome of social interactions between students in collaborative learning activities.Activities can include sharing through mobile devices,such as discussion forums which can be used for knowledge construction sharing.The construction of knowledge is based on social interactions between online students.Learning can also be influenced by multiple variables,including the cognitive and psychological state of the learner,teacher,professionalism and nature and complexity of the pedagogical approach.Many studies are conducted to explore the impact of social media on learning activities on the achievements and attitudes of online students and to compare those finding with students who are subjected only to face to face instruction in the classroom.Mobile learning technology is a new generation of remote learning
