International Journal of Academic Pedagogical Research (IJAPR)
  Year: 2021 | Volume: 5 | Issue: 12 | Page No.: 65-72
Educational Risks of Social Media and Ways to Reduce Them
Dr. Lina Ziyad Sbaih, Dr. Randa Shrier, T. Bessan Aljamal, Dr. Khalid Al-Attar

Abstract:
The objective of the research is to uncover the educational risks of social media networks from the point of view of postgraduate students in the Palestinian universities' education colleges and ways to reduce them, and to achieve the goal of research, a resolution was prepared composed of (29) phrases distributed among four axes. It was distributed to (100) students and postgraduate students at Palestinian universities in the southern governorates. The result indicated that the most common risks are the security risks for social networks and it was from the point of view of graduate students in faculties of education, followed by moral risks, then social and finally cultural and academic risks, and that back to: in order: "social silence", reluctance to read the paper, "lack of personal privacy", "recognizing bad friends". On relative weights (87.6%) (89.04%) (88.05%) (86.66%) and very large degrees of agreement. The study found a group of ways to reduce the risks of social networking sites, including developing self-monitoring for social media users by parents, Enacting deterrent laws and penalties for anyone who spies and penetrates, Conducting awareness sessions by state institutions targeting university and school students to increase their awareness of the dangers of security, ethical, social and cultural networking sites.