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Jeffrey Carpenter
Elon University
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Preservice Teachers’ Microblogging: Professional Development via Twitter
Jeffrey Carpenter
Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 15, No. 2 (June 2015) pp. 209–234
Twitter has demonstrated potential to facilitate learning at the university level, and K-12 educators’ use of the microblogging service Twitter to facilitate professional development appears to be on the rise. Research on microblogging as a part of...
Topics: Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Professional Development
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A Tale of Two Backchannels
Jeffrey Carpenter; Scott Morrison
EdMedia + Innovate Learning 2016 (Jun 28, 2016) pp. 1010–1015
Digital backchannels are online interaction spaces that run parallel to spoken, live remarks. These communication channels potentially create unique opportunities for participation that can help develop student communication skills, enrich...
Topics: pedagogical issues, interactive learning environments, Teaching/Learning Strategies
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Obstacles, Travails, and Barriers, Oh My! Educators’ Perspectives on Challenges in Professional Social Media Use
Jeffrey Carpenter; Stephen Harvey
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2019 (Mar 18, 2019) pp. 2692–2701
Social media such as Twitter and Facebook have become venues for self-directed professional activity for some educators. Although these professional activities are generally voluntary in nature and thus must provide some benefits and/or...
Topics: Social Media, Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies, Mobile Learning
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Expanding Professional Learning Networks through an Institutional Twitter Hashtag
Jeffrey Carpenter; Scott Morrison
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2018 (Mar 26, 2018) pp. 2216–2221
This paper explores in-progress research on our use of an institutional Twitter hashtag designed to increase interaction and expand professional learning networks (PLNs) among pre-service teachers (PST), alumni teaching across the country, faculty...
Topics: Mobile Learning, Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies, Social Media
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Twitter + Voxer: Educators’ Complementary Uses of Multiple Social Media
Jeffrey Carpenter; Tim Green
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2018 (Mar 26, 2018) pp. 2236–2244
Social media such as Facebook and Pinterest have become sites of self-directed professional learning and networking for some educators In this paper, we describe how educators combine the use of two specific digital tools, Twitter and Voxer, for...
Topics: New Possibilities with Information Technologies, Mobile Learning, Social Media
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Educators’ Professional Uses of Pinterest
Jeffrey Carpenter; Ashley Abrams; Margaret Dunphy
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2016 (Mar 21, 2016) pp. 1925–1930
This paper presents emergent findings from an in-progress study on educators’ uses of Pinterest, a popular website and mobile app. The study is exploring how educators and educational organizations utilize Pinterest. Quantitative and qualitative...
Topics: Workforce Education, Mobile Learning, Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies
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Educator perceptions of district-mandated Edcamp unconferences
Jeffrey Paul Carpenter; Miles R. MacFarlane
Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies Vol. 75, No. 1 (October 2018) pp. 71–82
Edcamp unconferences are a non-traditional participant-driven form of educator professional learning. Although Edcamp participation has typically been voluntary, this mixed-methods paper presents participants' (N = 252) perceptions regarding their...
Language: English
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Mobile instant messaging for professional learning: Educators' perspectives on and uses of Voxer
Jeffrey Paul Carpenter; Tim D. Green
Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies Vol. 68, No. 1 (November 2017) pp. 53–67
Voxer is a messaging tool that allows for voice, text, image, and video communication. To explore Voxer's role in education, we surveyed 240 educators. Heutagogy served as the theoretical framework for the study. Results indicated that participants...
Language: English
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Participatory Learning Through Social Media: How and Why Social Studies Educators Use Twitter
Daniel G. Krutka; Jeffrey P. Carpenter
Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 16, No. 1 (March 2016) pp. 38–59
The microblogging service Twitter offers a platform that social studies educators increasingly use for professional development, communication, and class activities, but to what ends? The authors drew on Deweyan conceptions of participatory learning ...
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Exploring How and Why Educators Use Pinterest
Jeffrey Carpenter; Amanda Cassaday; Stefania Monti
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2018 (Mar 26, 2018) pp. 2222–2229
This paper reports on a study of educators’ uses of Pinterest We conducted semi-structured interviews with eight educators in order to explore how and why they utilized Pinterest for professional purposes We present findings from our thematic...
Topics: New Possibilities with Information Technologies, Mobile Learning, Social Media
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How and Why Educators Use Twitter: A Survey of the Field
Jeffrey P. Carpenter; Daniel G. Krutka
Journal of Research on Technology in Education Vol. 46, No. 4 (2014) pp. 414–434
While the microblogging service Twitter is increasingly popular among educators and offers numerous affordances for learning, its relationship with formal education systems remains complicated by generally ambivalent educator attitudes and...
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Exploring Continuity and Change in Educators’ Professional Learning Networks
Jeffrey Carpenter; Daniel Krutka; Torrey Trust
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2019 (Mar 18, 2019) pp. 2680–2685
Recent years have seen many educators leverage social media to develop professional learning networks (PLNs) that extend beyond their individual schools and districts. There is, however, limited knowledge regarding how these PLNs change over time....
Topics: Social Media, Mobile Learning, New Possibilities with Information Technologies
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Advice Seeking and Giving in the Reddit r/Teachers Online Space
Jeffrey Carpenter; Connor McDade; Samantha Childers
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2018 (Mar 26, 2018) pp. 2207–2215
Reddit is a social media platform that allows users to share, vote on, and discuss content In order to understand how educators have taken advantage of Reddit’s affordances, this paper explores the nature of posts to a subreddit focused on teachers, ...
Topics: New Possibilities with Information Technologies, Mobile Learning, Social Media
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PK-12 Teachers’ Conceptualizations of Professional Learning Networks
Jeffrey Carpenter; Daniel Krutka; Torrey Trust
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2016 (Mar 21, 2016) pp. 1936–1942
Adapting and responding to the present era’s rapid technological and educational change requires educators to possess new knowledge, skills, and dispositions. With dissatisfaction regarding traditional teacher professional development (PD) well...
Topics: Workforce Education, Research & Evaluation, Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies
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Using Twitter in Higher Education in Spain and the USA
Gemma Tur; Victoria I. Marín; Jeffrey Carpenter
Comunicar: Media Education Research Journal Vol. 25, No. 51 (2017) pp. 19–27
This article examines student teachers' use and perceptions of Twitter, based on a mixed-method comparative approach. Participants (n = 153) were education majors who used Twitter as a part of required coursework in their programs at two...
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Perceptions in Higher Education of Professional Learning Networks (PLNs)
Daniel G Krutka; Torrey Trust; Jeffrey Carpenter
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2017 (Mar 05, 2017) pp. 532–535
Many faculty members in higher education have turned to professional learning networks (PLNs) to take advantage of reduced temporal and spatial constraints in an effort to engage with colleagues. While we know that professors have cultivated PLNs,...
Topics: Graduate Education & Faculty Development, Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies
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Opportunities and Challenges of Using Technology to Teach for Global Readiness in the Global Read Aloud
Jeffrey Carpenter; Sydney Weiss; Julie Justice
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2018 (Mar 26, 2018) pp. 822–831
Technology can create new opportunities for learning with and from people of other cultures, not just about them The Global Read Aloud (GRA) offers an example of such learning possibilities The GRA is a project that connects classrooms via digital...
Topics: New Possibilities with Information Technologies, International Education, Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies
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Engagement through Microblogging: Educator Professional Development via Twitter
Jeffrey P. Carpenter; Daniel G. Krutka
Professional Development in Education Vol. 41, No. 4 (2015) pp. 707–728
Traditional, top-down professional development (PD) can render teachers mere implementers of the ideas of others, but there is some hope that the participatory nature of social media such as Twitter might support more grassroots PD. To better...
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Evaluating the Roles of Technology in the Global Read Aloud Project
Jeffrey P. Carpenter; Julie Ellison Justice
Computers in the Schools Vol. 34, No. 4 (2017) pp. 284–303
Computer applications readily available to many of today's teachers and students offer new possibilities for teaching and learning. One example of this can be found in the Global Read Aloud (GRA) project. Since its 2010 creation, more than one...
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Educators’ perspectives on the impact of Edcamp unconference professional learning
Jeffrey Paul Carpenter; Jayme Nixon Linton
Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies Vol. 73, No. 1 (July 2018) pp. 56–69
Edcamps are a voluntary, democratic form of unconference. This paper presents participants’ perceptions regarding the impact of Edcamps. Data were gathered from a survey and interviews (N=105). Participants overwhelmingly reported that Edcamp...
Language: English
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Why Social Media Must Have a Place in Schools
Daniel G. Krutka; Jeffrey P. Carpenter
Kappa Delta Pi Record Vol. 52, No. 1 (2016) pp. 6–10
While most young people regularly consume and produce social media content, many schools focus on what students should not do with these technologies rather than address what students and teachers can do. The authors share ways that some educators...
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Edcamp unconferences: Educators' perspectives on an untraditional professional learning experience
Jeffrey Paul Carpenter; Jayme Nixon Linton
Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies Vol. 57, No. 1 (July 2016) pp. 97–108
Edcamps are a free, voluntary, and participant-driven form of unconference professional development. This article reports on survey data gathered from 769 Edcamp participants. Beforehand, these educators indicated diverse motivations for their...
Language: English
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Educators on the Front Page of the Internet: Education-Related Subreddits as Learning Spaces
K. Bret Staudt Willet; Jeffrey Carpenter
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2019 (Mar 18, 2019) pp. 2787–2795
Accessing and contributing to online spaces have become regular parts of many educators’ professional activities. However, the popular discussion forum website Reddit has received little attention from educational researchers despite the presence of ...
Topics: New Possibilities with Information Technologies, Social Media, Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies
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For the Longest Time: Continuity and Change in One Teaching-Related Subreddit
K. Bret Staudt Willet; Jeffrey P. Carpenter
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2020 (Apr 07, 2020) pp. 1490–1496
Social media are a relatively new phenomena, and the empirical literature remains underdeveloped. In particular, knowledge is lacking regarding how educators’ social media use potentially changes over time. The purpose of this study is to contribute ...
Topics: Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies, Social Media
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Professional Learning and Collaboration for Teaching with HyperDocs
Torrey Trust; Jeffrey Carpenter; Tim Green
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2020 (Apr 07, 2020) pp. 1886–1893
Social technologies can create new opportunities for teachers to collaborate and share teaching and learning activities. HyperDocs – interactive, digital teaching and learning materials created, disseminated, and remixed by educators – are an...
Topics: New Possibilities with Information Technologies, Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies, Social Media
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Exploring the Education Twitter Hashtag Landscape
Jeffrey Carpenter; Tania Tani; Scott Morrison; Julie Keane
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2018 (Mar 26, 2018) pp. 2230–2235
In recent years, Twitter has become an important tool for educator professional learning and community. While education has often proven to be an isolating profession, social media such as Twitter open up opportunities for teachers to collaborate...
Topics: New Possibilities with Information Technologies, Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies, Social Media
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Leading by Learning: Exploring the Professional Learning Networks of Instructional Leaders
Torrey Trust; Jeffrey Paul Carpenter; Daniel G. Krutka
Educational Media International Vol. 55, No. 2 (2018) pp. 137–152
Leaders in education are often the sole person in their particular role in a school, and have thus frequently struggled with professional isolation. In recent years, social media tools such as Facebook and Twitter have created new opportunities for...
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What do U.S. and Spanish pre-service teachers think about educational and professional use of Twitter? A comparative study
Jeffrey P. Carpenter; Gemma Tur; Victoria I. Marín
Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies Vol. 60, No. 1 (November 2016) pp. 131–143
This mixed-methods study explored pre-service teacher (PST) perceptions of educational and professional uses of the social media platform Twitter. PSTs (N = 153) from two universities in the United States and Spain used Twitter for course...
Language: English
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#RemoteTeaching & #RemoteLearning: Educator Tweeting During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Torrey Trust; Jeffrey P. Carpenter; Daniel G. Krutka; Royce Kimmons
Journal of Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 28, No. 2 (2020) pp. 151–159
The coronavirus pandemic has upended educators’ lives and work in many ways. Many educators turned to social media spaces, such as Twitter, to navigate the transition to remote life and teaching. For this study, we examined two popular hashtags - ...
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Mining Social Media Divides: An Analysis of K-12 U.S. School Uses of Twitter
Royce Kimmons; Jeffrey P. Carpenter; George Veletsianos; Daniel G. Krutka
Learning, Media and Technology Vol. 43, No. 3 (2018) pp. 307–325
This study utilizes public data mining to explore participation divides of all available K-12 institutional Twitter accounts in the U.S. (n = 8275 accounts, n = 9,216,853 tweets). Results indicated that U.S. schools used Twitter to broadcast...
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“Together we are better”: Professional learning networks for teachers
Torrey Trust; Daniel G. Krutka; Jeffrey Paul Carpenter
Computers & Education Vol. 102, No. 1 (November 2016) pp. 15–34
In recent years, many educators have turned to professional learning networks (PLNs) to grow in their craft with peers who are more accessible online because of reduced temporal and spatial constraints. While educators have cultivated PLNs, there is ...
Language: English
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Commentary: Response of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education to “An Interview With Joseph South” Regarding the Preparation of Educators to Evaluate the Efficacy of Educational Technology
Charles B. Hodges; Jeffrey P. Carpenter; Arlene C. Borthwick
Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 17, No. 1 (March 2017) pp. 17–23
This commentary is a response by members of the AACTE Committee on Innovation and Technology to the remarks by Dr. Joseph South, former Director of the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Educational Technology, regarding the preparation of...
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Taking Stock of TeachersPayTeachers.com: Analyzing Four Million Classroom Resources
Catharyn Shelton; Matthew Koehler; Jeffrey Carpenter; Spencer Greenhalgh
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2020 (Apr 07, 2020) pp. 1477–1482
TeachersPayTeachers.com (TpT) is a popular online educational marketplace where educators exchange classroom and instructional materials. Despite indications of significant use of TpT, the existing empirical research on the platform and its users is ...
Topics: Social Media
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Exploring How and Why Educators Use Instagram
Jeffrey Carpenter; Scott Morrison; Madeline Craft; Michalene Lee
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2019 (Mar 18, 2019) pp. 2686–2691
This paper reports on an in-progress study of educators’ professional uses of Instagram. We created an online survey that we disseminated via various social media channels during late fall of 2018. Preliminary analyses of the responses from 841...
Topics: Mobile Learning, Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies, Social Media
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How and Why to Use Social Media in Teacher Education
Jeffrey Carpenter; Lisa Hervey; Daniel Krutka; Jayme Linton; Geoff Price
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2016 (Mar 21, 2016) pp. 1931–1935
The quick ascension of social media in the 21st century has left teacher educators scrambling to understand the implications of networked students and educators, and the associated pedagogical possibilities and challenges. Five teacher educators...
Topics: Distance/Flexible Education, Research & Evaluation, Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies
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A Diagnostic Tool to Help Leaders Develop TPACK Ready Teacher Preparation Programs
Jeffrey Carpenter; Kevin Graziano; Arlene Borthwick; Teresa DeBacker; Elizabeth Finsness
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2016 (Mar 21, 2016) pp. 2802–2805
College administrators must play a key role in the successful transformation of educator preparation. This presentation addresses the development and use of a diagnostic tool designed for leaders and leadership teams implementing initiatives related ...
Topics: Graduate Education & Faculty Development, Technology Leadership, Technological, Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK)
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Moving beyond silos: professional learning networks in higher education
Torrey Trust; Jeffrey Paul Carpenter; Daniel G. Krutka
Internet and Higher Education Vol. 35, No. 1 (October 2017) pp. 1–11
Many faculty and staff in higher education have turned to digitally-enhanced professional learning networks (PLNs) as a means for situated learning that can help them grow in their various professional responsibilities. However, there is scant...
Language: English
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Teacher identity and crossing the professional-personal divide on twitter
Jeffrey P. Carpenter; Royce Kimmons; Cecil R. Short; Kyle Clements; McKenzie Emmett Staples
Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies Vol. 81, No. 1 (May 2019) pp. 1–12
Teachers have public personas that often combine aspects of their personal and professional identities, but little research has analyzed how this overlap manifests in their social media activities. We analyzed profiles and tweets from K-12 teacher...
Language: English
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Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam: Methodological Considerations and Challenges for Studying Educators’ Twitter Use
Jeffrey Carpenter; Matthew Koehler; K. Bret Staudt Willet; Spencer P. Greenhalgh
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2019 (Mar 18, 2019) pp. 2702–2711
Social media have come to play an important role in the professional lives of many educators. Platforms such as Twitter create new spaces in which collegial contact can occur, opening up various avenues for support and development. These spaces,...
Topics: Mobile Learning, Research & Evaluation, Social Media
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What do Teacher Educators think of Teacher Education Technology Competencies?
Jeffrey Carpenter; Joshua Rosenberg; Tonia Dousay; Enilda Romero-Hall; Torrey Trust; Aaron Kessler; Michael Phillips; Scott Morrison; Christian Fischer; Daniel Krutka
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2019 (Mar 18, 2019) pp. 796–801
Digital technologies have become commonplace in schools and the effective integration of these technologies places new demands on both teachers and teacher preparation programs. The teaching and modeling of technology use as part of the teaching and ...
Topics: faculty development, Research & Evaluation, Technological, Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK)