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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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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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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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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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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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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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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