In a call to improve the educational sector, Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of Governing Council of Crawford University, Igbesa, Ogun State Prof. Peter Okebukola,implored stakeholders in education sectors to embrace social media as one of the means of teaching students. He said this during the 4th convocation ceremony of the institution where 253 students were convocated.
According to Okebukola, instead of advising youths to stay off from Facebook and twitter, Nigeria educational sector should look inward and
improve knowledge and skills through these social media. He added that most educational communities in the world improve their
student's knowledge and acquire new skills by using social media
which most of youths are addicted to. Okebukola further urged various stakeholders to look beyond negative
aspects of networking and leverage on the positives of social media such
as how it will improve learning, acquire new skills and students spend
productive time.
"Facebook and Twitter are emerging global communication standards
especially among the youth and anybody advocating that our youth should
stay off such should ask the Anopheles mosquito to stay off the sucking
of blood. In most advanced countries, teachers supplement their lessons
with assignment given to their students on Facebook. It has been
confirmed that students relate in an exciting way to their Facebook
lessons and studies which has led to improved performance in school and
public examinations," he said.
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