Abstract
<p class="apa">This study aims at identifying the role of social communication tools in education from the Saudi female students’ perspectives that are studying at the college of education in King Saud University-Riyadh. This study used a survey, which was distributed to 500 female students. The results showed that 90% of respondents used social media where 95% said social media improved interaction with other and raised the sense of social responsibility, 56% used all tools of social media. 45% used social media more than 6 hours daily. 61% believed that social networks promoted democratic values and spread political culture.62% of respondents used social media to do homework or academic projects and researches. 99% of respondents believed that social media allowed following new information about their academic specialty and obtained specialized scientific consulting. 79% of respondents believed that one goal of creating accounts in social networks were learning specific science knowledge or a foreign language. 9% of respondents benefited from social media in social educational consulting. 44% of respondents preferred to debate in scientific and educational topics. 84% of respondents agreed that social networks provided the opportunity to form relationships with those interested in a particular scientific subject and exchanged experiences and information with them.<strong></strong></p>
Highlights
Introduction and BackgroundCommunication is considered one of the learning processes in human societies
The findings of this study support the findings of a study conducted by Surrey (2008) showing that all young people use the Internet as a means of communication in their daily lives regardless their age, educational level, social status, or their career and with decent experience in usage
Different roles of Social communication tools in developing scientific and academic aspects of female students appeared in various portions; for instance
Summary
Introduction and BackgroundCommunication is considered one of the learning processes in human societies. It changes according to time and place in which it is done (McKinney & Rill, 2009). While using the Internet for communication and establishing relations with others, people fulfill their personal and social needs previously served through traditional means. One of these needs is the need for affiliation (McKinney & Rill, 2009). The construction of the sites of social networking is based on this need, as the goal behind social networking sites is to present means that may enable users to communicate, participate and continue their communication without considering the time and place
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