SNS have been shown to be highly effective at facilitating communication between students, specifically for study groups. encouraging sharing each others' social media handles can ease the communicative lines for projects and studying for exams 

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SNS can be utilized in various ways to increase academic success for various age groups. some types of knowledge one can focus on improving with these applications include:

- scientific concepts
- higher-order thinking skills, social skills 
- mental, motor, social, emotional skills
- new immersive learning opportunities
- methodological information
- decision making, analytical thinking, and problem solving
- communicative skills 
- attitudes, perceptions, active engagement and motivation

these can be further understood through combining  computer games and SNS to customize these skill programs to the student

implementing SNS in educational system

Tayseer, M., Zoghieb, F., Alcheikh, I., Awadallah, M.N.S. (2014). Social Network: Academic and Social Impacts on College Students. Academia. 

Social Network: Academic and Social Impacts on College Students

in college where large classroom settings  are common and prevent participation from everyone, online discussions have been found to be helpful in both facilitating a large-group discussion as well as allowing everyone to speak. Those who are more shy will especially benefit from these as they allow one to include their opinion in a setting they are comfortable in.

higher-order thinking, social skills

communicative skills

These games are designed to combine what its learnt in the classroom with the internet/virtual world to widen the perspectives the student can gather on  one concept. These games have 5 stages

1. Stage of Analysis
2. Stage of Design
3. Stage of Development
4. Stage of Quality Control
5. Stage of Implementation and Evaluation 

There is also 5 teaching components:

• Learning goal setting
• Learning theory setting
• Teaching and learning process
• Curriculum needs
• Moral value
• Process of learner memorization


Digital Game-Based Learning(DGBL)

In a game titled "Osi Network Game", where the teaching would be in the form of a customized game while also being integrated into Facebook. Students to communicate with one another through facebook to help solve the problems.

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