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The Hashtag-Thread Mashup: How Educators Talk to Each Other in Twitter #Edchat
K. Bret Staudt Willet
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2020 (Apr 07, 2020) pp. 1497–1507
Educational research has described a social dimension to learning, and it is likely that technology complicates the social dimension of learning. This paper explores what differences, if any, are evident in the nature of Twitter #Edchat...
Topics: Social Media
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Early-career Educators’ Experiences with Social Media during Induction
K. Bret Staudt Willet
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2020 (Apr 07, 2020) pp. 1483–1489
Early-career educators face numerous challenges during their transition from educator preparation programs into professional employment contexts (i.e., their induction period), and they seek support from a variety of sources. The teacher induction...
Topics: Social Media
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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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#Edchat is Bigger, But Better Only for Some: Revisiting How and Why Educators Use Twitter
K. Bret Staudt Willet
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2019 (Mar 18, 2019) pp. 2778–2786
This mixed methods study revisits Carpenter and Krutka’s (2014) survey of how and why educators use Twitter, narrowing the scope to a single hashtag, #Edchat. From October, 1, 2017 to June 5, 2018, I collected 1.2 million unique #Edchat tweets from...
Topics: Social Media, Mobile Learning, Research & Evaluation
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Communities and Clusters: User Interactions in an Online Discussion Forum for Computer Science Education
Sukanya Kannan Moudgalya; K. Bret Staudt Willet
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2019 (Mar 18, 2019) pp. 2291–2298
Prior research has shown that teacher communities are important for social, cognitive, and affective growth of teachers. Further, teacher isolation often encourages teachers to join online teacher communities. In the U.S., computer science (CS)...
Topics: Science Education, Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies, Social Media
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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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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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A Tweet by Any Other Frame: Three Approaches to Studying Educator Interactions on Twitter
K. Bret Staudt Willet; Matthew J. Koehler; Spencer P. Greenhalgh
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2017 (Mar 05, 2017) pp. 1823–1830
Every day, thousands of educators use Twitter to interact with each other. Yet, the research that examines these educator interactions on Twitter is nascent, in part because it is unclear how to theoretically conceptualize the nature of interactions ...
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Social Scholars: Re-envisioning Graduate Education in the Age of Social Media
Christine Greenhow; Holly Marich; K. Bret Staudt Willet
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2017 (Mar 05, 2017) pp. 856–861
This paper reports findings from a mixed methods study of whether and how doctoral students understand and practice social scholarship within the context of a required graduate course. Our conceptualization of social scholarship re-envisions Boyer?s ...
Topics: New Possibilities with Information Technologies, Graduate Education & Faculty Development, Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies
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A Tale of Two Twitters: Synchronous and Asynchronous Use of the Same Hashtag
Joshua Rosenberg; Mete Akcaoglu; K. Bret Staudt Willet; Spencer Greenhalgh; Matthew Koehler
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2017 (Mar 05, 2017) pp. 283–286
Communication in online settings can occur at the same time (synchronously) or at different times (asynchronously). A new form of online learning in which teachers communicate both at the same time and at different times is through social media...
Topics: Distance/Flexible Education