AWARENESS AND USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA BY PROSPECTIVE TEACHERS

Social media have the most popular medium for the exchange of Information and knowledge across the globe. Globally the use of social media has significantly increased and it certainly has for reaching impact on the academic and allied activities of the prospective teachers. The younger generation makes most of the use of social media than any other demographic. In the past several years the use of social networking sites has increased which has become an international issue. Due to increased Technology uses for communicating with others social networking has been a primary activity on the internet with the sites like Facebook, Myspace, WhatsApp, YouTube, Twitter etc. The present study aimed to examine the use of social media among the prospective teachers of B.Ed. to know the awareness and use of social media and to determine how actively prospective teachers are using social media and getting advantage from it. The study used survey method and a well- structured questionnaire was designed and the random sampling technique was used for data collection. The questioner was handed over personally by researchers to 150 prospective teachers and question award received back. The analysis of the data collection is presented in the form of tables and charts followed by it interpretation visibility of a student teachers prefer social media to find Useful information sources and prospective teachers agree that the social media tools are very much useful in pursuing their academic activities