Social Media – New Form Of Learning Community

Popa, Daniela; Voinea, Mihaela

doi:10.15405/epsbs.2017.05.02.226

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“…Therefore, educational researchers like to utilize from the Internet for their researches. However, there is not enough empirical study for the professional use of social media as educational environment (Popa and Voinea, 2017). According to Grosseck and Holotescu (2011), a popular social media topic for researchers is the use of microblogging in academic research.…”

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How Do Educational Researchers Utilize from Social Media?

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Social media is very popular on the Internet and individuals utilize from social media in different ways. This exploratory research investigated the educational researchers' social media uses and their opinions about using social media as a research, teaching and learning environment for educational purposes within a sample of Turkish educational researchers. A total of 207 researchers participated in this study. The results showed that 62% of the researchers utilized from social media for their previous educational studies and 90% of them planned to utilize from social media for their educational studies in the near future. Most of the educational researchers think positive about the usage of social media within educational studies, but they have complained about the insufficiency of literature. It has been seen that the researchers' study at the Department of Computer and Instruction Technologies Education use social media more effective and younger researchers utilize from social media more and think to utilize more in faculties of education. At the same time, researchers who use social media more effectively in their daily lives, benefit more from social media in their educational studies. Some seminars can be organized to overcome the technical knowledge deficiencies of educational researchers. Education researchers can be encouraged to adopt and use social media elements.

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How Do Educational Researchers Utilize from Social Media?

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“…As the research shows, social media can be used to highlight and share the best practice in a learning community as well as access new and shared relational resources (attitudes, knowledge, ideas, practices, etc.) [24]. As we can see evidenced in Figure 3, it was important for the DTLSN community momentum (and motivation) to showcase the work undertaken in the school workshops across these channels.…”

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The Journey to Making ‘Digital Technology’ Education a Community Learning Venture

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Technology has become an integral part of our educational systems, and its importance in our schools cannot be overstated. However, digital skills, unlike other literacy skills, such as reading, writing, and numeracy, still have many discontinuities between how children use them at home versus in school. Therefore, in Wales (UK), digital skills are being promoted as part of the Digital Competence Framework (DCF) and feature highly in the new Curriculum for Wales (2022). Moreover, the new Digital Technology General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) in Wales has been introduced to provide learners with the opportunity to gain a qualification that builds digital skills, knowledge, and understanding. However, this also brings many challenges for teachers, such as a lack of confidence, knowledge, and training, as well as a lack of resources and fear of change, to name a few. These challenges, in turn, have an impact on pupils’ motivation and performance, as well as parents’ ability to support their children. This paper presents a qualitative case study on the development of a new digital technology learning community for primary and secondary school pupils, their teachers, and parents in Blaenau Gwent, Wales (UK). Firstly, the paper will provide insight into what was required to establish an effective learning community, including ensuring engagement and buy-in from all stakeholders. Secondly, through the description, analysis, and interpretation of findings from two studies, the paper will highlight the impact of the DTLSN learning community on teachers and pupils in Blaenau Gwent, especially in terms of their learning and teaching.

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Social Media – New Form Of Learning Community

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How Do Educational Researchers Utilize from Social Media?

How Do Educational Researchers Utilize from Social Media?

The Journey to Making ‘Digital Technology’ Education a Community Learning Venture

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