Education today, is still in a process of adaptation due to the pandemic that still plagues the world, and the application of technology to the current classes, has been the most viable way to enhance distance learning, through the application of many methods, as have been the simplest things, such as the use of email, has the application of virtual classrooms, now well, in this perspective what role do social networks play? Nowadays, social networks are not only a means to socialize with other people, they have been of great help to teach classes at different levels.
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At present, social networks have become an excellent opportunity to enhance learning through communication between teachers and students, and encourages informal and formal learning, this is because students have the opportunity to express themselves, establish relationships with others virtually, in the same way allows to meet the demands of education.
There is a wide variety of social networks that allow you to encourage education, we can start talking about the importance of Whatsapp, although it is a social network that by misapplication of users, have deformed the writing, understanding by this the incorrect abbreviations of words, the non-use of accents, much less the use of punctuation marks, Whatsapp has managed to become a primary tool for communication between teacher and students.
Another of the widely used social networks, is Telegram, a very useful application, less used in the Americas, but little by little it has managed to consolidate as an educational tool, due to the variety of uses that it can give us, such as the programming of exams, in the application it is possible to schedule the time at which you can activate an evaluation, and at the time you want the information is closed, receiving only those who answered in the established time, the most similar to a face-to-face evaluation, but by social networks.
There is an application, which due to its use can be classified as a social network, unknown to many people, but very useful for teaching practical subjects, such as Discord, why for practical subjects? Discord has a very useful function, called screen sharing, in which you can project the screen of your computer, and students can observe it, in which you can explain practical exercises, using the computer programs, a microphone and the use of Discord.
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Although many countries are already implementing vaccination against COVID-19 massively, we do not know if the results will be positive, so education is still implemented at a distance in most countries of the world, and therefore it is necessary to continue in the search for different means to teach distance learning, being social networks one of the main tools implemented for this, being possible to implement distance education in a proper way.
