![]() ![]() Using social networking technologies with children can include mainstream technologies such as Twitter (the minimum age for an account is 13) but also products designed specifically for PK-12 such as Edmodo, both of which may enable learning activities to have wider, authentic audiences, personalization through pursuit of child-driven interests that may be community-based inquiries, as demonstrated by many researchers. Beyond Facebook, these teachers had little social networking experience for personal or educational purposes. The majority of these students put “a lot” of restrictions on their social networking accounts, and they indicated being “somewhat unlikely” to use social networking in their future teaching.īecause these college students reported limited experiences with social networking technologies for educational purposes, the researchers concluded that as they graduate and become classroom teachers, they will be unprepared to involve social networking technologies for classroom/learning experiences or for their own professional learning in the future. ![]() Writing in wikis, which only 10% reported doing, was done predominantly for educational purposes. Reading blogs, wikis, and writing on blogs was done for both educational and personal purposes. Those students who used Facebook and Twitter, used it mostly for personal purposes. Those who were using these social networking technologies tended to consume/read content more than write/create/share content for others. Only 10% wrote on a wiki, and 20% had read/wrote on Twitter. While nearly all of these college students reported using Facebook, 60% reported reading blogs, writing on blogs, or reading wikis. Graduate student researchers, Yujung Ko, Mihyun Lim, and Sa Liu, and I have published a research study that identified college students in one teaching certification program had limited exposure and use of social networking technologies over a four year period from 2008 to 2012, available in t he current issue of the Journal of Technology and Teacher Education. Photo “wallpaperpaint1” by wilgengebroed on Flickr Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license (CC BY-NC 2.0)
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