A paper presentation on "EMERGING ROLE OF SOCIAL MEDIA IN THE DEVOLOPING LEADERSHIP AMONG TEACHERS

ABSTRACT 

Social media has gained incredible popularity over the past few years as an open source of information and knowledge sharing platform. Educational institutions are using social media space to interact with young minds. We are seeing educators leveraging the potential of social media technologies to enhance the overall teaching-learning process.

The emerging role of social media in teaching-learning process cannot be ignored. It not only provides students access to useful information but also connects them with learning groups and other educational systems that make their overall learning process more interesting and engaging.

Few ways in which social media is helping professors, students and universities are mentioned below, take a look.

Benefits of Using Social Media in Teaching and Learning: How Professors & Educators can Use Social Media to Enhance Teaching-Learning Process
With the advent of internet technology, Social media has become an integral of every student’s life. Through social networks, it is easier and convenient to exchange information, communicate with each other and stay connected. Teachers and students can use social platforms to stay connected to each other and can use it for educational purpose.

Social media is also a medium where students can establish beneficial connections for their careers. As an educational institution, it is crucial to be active in many social platforms possible, this helps create better student engagement strategies and makes learning more interactive and inclusive.

Professors can use their Twitter or Facebook handles or even messaging services such as WhatsApp to hold live sessions, offer extended support to students thereby enhancing the scope of learning beyond classroom. They can organize discussions related to their subjects or class assignments on social media platforms.  Social media therefore helps both teachers and students to remain connected off campus.

Faculty can create groups using social media where useful information can be accessed by all. It is a good platform for sharing ideas. They can use hashtags to increase outreach of their academic posts and view submissions by students to check engagement level.

One of the main reasons behind professors adapting to social media in and out of the classrooms is that they can do personal branding using social media. This helps in creating a name for them in the academic fraternity. Facebook, Twitter, various blogging sites and YouTube are some of the social channels where professors can market their expertise. These platforms are highly popular among students and hence can help in establishing high reputation.  After all, who wouldn’t want that his / her work should get recognized !

Teaching fraternity is therefore acknowledging the impact of social media on personal and professional lives. 

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OBJECTIVES 

* To develop the leadership quality among teachers and give a base to the development of the improving the teaching skill 

* To give an optimum awareness to teachers about the good and bad effects of socialmedia, while engaging with students. 

NEED AND SIGNIFICANCE

          

             The techno pedagogue is a person who sites with your teacher and helps them for the practical uses and appropriate uses of socialmedia to attain their educational goals and also to give awarness about the negative effects of socialmedia among students. So the base want to start from a teacher itself, in order to build better citizens to the coming generations.