أثر استخدام مواقع الشبكات الاجتماعية على زيادة المعرفة العلمية لدى طلبة الثانوية العامة

Abstract EN

This study aimed at investigating the level of high school students’ use of social networks for educational purposes.

it also intended to study the level of student activity and participation while using these sites, reveal the students’ level of awareness of utilizing these networks for education, clarifying the positive and the negative effects of students’ use of social networks, and introduce implications regarding investing the social networks to serve students.

this study is primarily qualitative in nature.

the survey method and ques-tionnaire were used to collect data from a sample of (168) participants from high school students in various areas in Gaza.

the study concluded that 86% of respondents use social networks whereas 14% of the respondents do not use them; Facebook is the most used social network by the re-spondents as it ranked first.

also the respondents intensively follow social networks and that they prefer entertainment materials.

the online messaging via chats and comments were recealed to be the most used media by the respondents to communicate with others via social networks.

the respondents who mainly contacted their friends during their chats via the networks represented the largest categories in the sample with a percentage of 37%.the second category was those who chatted with their colleagues with a percentage of 24%; the third category was those had chats with their family members with a percentage of 18%, ; the fourth constituted the category which chatted with new people takes13%.

finally chatting with teachers ranked last with a percentage of 9% which takes.

the most important services and expertise provided by the social networks for the respondents is exchanging ideas, trends and opinions.