Dr Ayodele Ajayi, the Provost, Federal College of Education, Osiele, Abeokuta, has called on education managers or leaders to continue to work on how to make more effective use of social media among higher institution students.
Ajayi stated this in an interview with newsmen on Tuesday in Abeokuta.
“So, to me I will say as an educationist, social media has come to stay with us and those of us who are managers or leaders should continue to work on how to make more effective use of these social media.
” It is only when the students are idle that they would be abused but when we actually engage them , we occupy them, we mandate them with good materials, the space that will be left for them to utilise these things for bad purposes will be very small.
“There is nothing we can do, it has come to stay and it is for us to tap into it and to encourage more use of it.
” This is the age of social media and there is one common advert on Nigeria Television Authority regularly till date, that social media is neither good nor bad.
“It is good when the user uses it for good purpose and it is bad when the user also uses it for bad purpose.
“In the College what we have done is to at least reach out to the students through the social media and we know that lots of interactions are going on between the staff and students and some lecturers through the social media.
” In fact during the lock down, I know quite a number of final year students that were doing their projects online with their supervisors. So it’s been put to positive use and that does not say that those who use it for negative reasons are not there but they are not too pronounced here,”Ajayi said.
