Secondary School Teachers’ Attitude Towards the Use of Social Media as a Teaching Platform in Nigeria

Secondary School Teachers‘ attitude towards the use of social media as a platform for educational purposes in Nigeria. The main aim of the study is to investigate secondary school teachers‘ attitude towards use of social media as a teaching platform. The study makes use of quantitative methodology. 112 teachers within the country‘s capital city- Abuja participated as respondents to the distributed questionnaires. Findings reveal that teachers are familiar with at least two social media platforms namely Facebook and Youtube and frequent users of the aforementioned platforms as well. However, the least frequent and familiar sites are LinkedIn and Slideshare. The general attitude of the teachers are positive towards social media usage. Age and gender had no effect to teachers‘ general attitude towards social media.