How is social media beneficial to students?

1. Blog: http://www.edudemic.com/how-students-benefit-from-using-social-media/
   1. Who: Joseph Baker; includes comments from other bloggers about the blog and their ideas.
   2. What: Emphasizes multiple encouraging and positive ideas of how social media is a beneficial resource for students to use. It increases connections, knowledge, web engagement, and social media marketing. Link is also used as a related source from Edudemic.com.
   3. When: was published February 12, 2013.
   4. Where: Has been listed as related sources on Edudemic.com.
   5. Why: This source explains benefits of how social media is an important resource for students to thrive and broaden their opportunities in their education. Provides a very positive tone with backed up information and other bloggers leaving supportive feedback. 
2. Blog/Professional Organization:https://www.hudsongrp.com/blog/what-are-the-advantages-of-social-media-to-students
   1. Who: Team from The Hudson Group. Includes related socials to reach them: Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Email. 53 comments which entails credibility to the source.
   2. What: Starts out the source with how people think social media is harmful to students/teenagers but it rebuttals that statement by including supporting details of how social media benefits students in a positive way. This is written in a very clear and advocating tone to persuade readers that social media is a tool.
   3. When: Published August 15, 2013
   4. Where: This source is found from The Hudson Group which is a professional organization and you can know that by the copyright statement on the bottom as well other forms of networking listed on the side of the website. The site is very professional and lists mission and vision statements which add to its credibility.
   5. Why: This source is a reliable source because it provides other forms of networking and includes details about how social media is a good source. It talks about how social media is a networking tool, a web rendezvous, shares information, and is a tool for social media marketing. It advocates with an encouraging/supporting tone about how social media is a tool for students.
3.   Video/Article: http://librariesnetwork.org/social-media-in-education-6-ways-social-media-is-changing-education/
   1. Who: Video is posted on youtube from CBC: National. Listed on a website from the Libraries Network which includes a copyright statement and a written statement about the video written by Don Soto.
   2. What: The video and written statement underneath carries the message of how social media is a useful tool for teenagers and how it is changing education in a positive aspect. The written portion gives readers tips on how social media should be used so its power isn’t abused for the wrong reasons. The video shows a short documentary of interviewing children and teenagers about their use of social media and shows the effects of how our brain processes things we see regarding social media. The video focuses less on how social media affects education but more how kids react and use social media. The written portion is where it uses the information in the video to provide insight on how it helps education.
   3. When: Published on October 3, 2018.
   4. Where: This source is found from Libraries Network which is a professional organization and you can know this by the copyright statement on the bottom of the page.
   5. Why: This source is reliable because it gives you background information of how teens/children use social media but also backs up the claim of how social media is a beneficial tool by providing a written statement below explaining the writer’s thoughts. This site includes details about how social media is a beneficial tool and how children should use it correctly by giving readers tips such as finding a balance, how it is a communication tool for teachers and students and even parents, and how students understand these platforms well. It advocates the claim with supporting evidence written in a informing tone.
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4.  Professional Organization: https://www.lcibs.co.uk/the-role-of-social-media-in-education/

1. Who: Written by Khanyie Dlamini, listed on the website of London College of International Business Studies, which is a professional organization. Further credibility is listed on the website by including other forms of networking such as their address, phone number, and email. It also provides sources such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Youtube as well as providing a copyright statement on the very bottom of the website.
2. What: This source talks about how social media’s credibility has grown positively over time. It explains how people are realizing that social media is a useful tool and are broadening their perspectives on how it can be used as an educational and professional tool as well as a form of communicating among friends and family. It provides supporting statements such as how social media helps research processes, enhanced learning management systems, how intuitions communicate with students over Youtube and Facebook, and students are able to connect with experts over social media.
3. When: The article does not indicate when this article was published but the corporation (London College of International Business Studies was formed in 2017.
4. Where: On the side of the website it shows how many times this article has been shared on Facebook (55), Twitter (13), and Pinterest (2).
5. Why: This article is credible because it supports the claim with evidence that has linked websites that you can click on to further learn more about. It includes supporting evidence such as how social media helps research processes, enhanced learning management systems, how intuitions communicate with students over Youtube and Facebook, and students are able to connect with experts over social media. Also the fact that it includes how many times it has been shared also shows how credible the source is. The purpose was written clearly and written in an informative tone.
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5. Short Paper/Journal: http://journals.sfu.ca/onlinejour/index.php/i-jep/article/viewFile/2836/2821

1. Who: Written by Rdouan Faizi, Abdellatif El Afia and Raddouane Chiheb ENSIAS, Mohammed V Souissi University, Rabat, Morocco. It provides all of their emails at the end of the page.
2. What: This short journal/paper includes many social media sources such as wiki, blogs, Google, Facebook, and Twitter and writes about how these sources help students in their education. It lists many social media platforms and provides evidence of how it benefits students. The journal is also cited with up to 17 references.
3. When: Submitted on May 27, 2013. Published July, 2013.
4. Where: There are multiple references at the end of the journal (17). Also cited by 22 related articles.
5. Why: This is a credible source because it is a short paper/journal which means that multiple writers have worked on it and reviewed the information and it was finally published on July of 2013. This journal includes a lot of information regarding how different social media platforms are used to impact students’ lives, such as Google. The tone of this journal is informative and supportive and advocates for social media platforms as an educational tool not a harmful source for teenagers which are argued by many parents these days .
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