Democratic Twittering: Microblogging for a More Participatory Social Studies

Daniel G. Krutka

Social Education Vol. 78, No. 2 (2014) pp. 86–89

Waves of revolutionary actions beginning in late 2010 led to the downfall of dictatorial leaders who had been entrenched in the Arab world for decades. Everyday citizens used social media services to coordinate, communicate, expose, and respond to...

Social media diaries and fasts: Educating for digital mindfulness with pre-service teachers

Nicole Damico; Daniel G. Krutka

Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies Vol. 73, No. 1 (July 2018) pp. 109–119

With social media access nearly ubiquitous, teachers and students must explore how to mitigate distractions and unhealthy uses. In this mixed methods study, the authors invited 60 pre-service teachers across two universities to cultivate mindfulness ...

Language: English

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...

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...

Videoconferencing for Global Citizenship Education: Wise Practices for Social Studies Educators

Daniel G. Krutka; Kenneth T. Carano

Journal of Social Studies Education Research Vol. 7, No. 2 (2016) pp. 109–136

Videoconferencing activities hold particular promise for social studies educators hoping to mediate humanizing experiences that will help students grow as citizens of the world. In this paper, we review literature on videoconferencing for global...

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...

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...

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...

“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

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

Microblogging about teaching: Nurturing participatory cultures through collaborative online reflection with pre-service teachers

Daniel G. Krutka; Daniel J. Bergman; Raymond Flores; Katherine Mason; Ashlie R. Jack

Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies Vol. 40, No. 1 (May 2014) pp. 83–93

Reflection is a cornerstone of most teacher education programs, but common practices have long been individualistic and this has become increasingly evident in an era when young people are participating in online cultures more than ever. Informal...

Language: English