Using Social Media in the Classroom: What our Education Colleagues Can Teach Us Steve Brewer College of Saint Mary, Omaha

Today o Macro Review published literature o Micro Teacher Education program at CSM

Focus on three social media o Facebook o Twitter o Pinterest

Definition of social media “A networked communication platform in which participants: 1) have uniquely identifiable profiles that consist of user-supplied content, content provided by other users, and/or system-provided data; 2) can publicly articulate connections that can be viewed and traversed by others; and 3) can consume, produce, and/or interact with streams of user-generated content provided by their connections on the site.” Boyd & Ellison, 2013

Business education articles 4 on Facebook 5 on Twitter 3 on LinkedIn 14 on general use of social media 0 on Pinterest 26 total

Teacher education articles 21 on Facebook 17 on Twitter 27 on general use of social media 0 on LinkedIn 0 on Pinterest 65 total

Facebook Primarily as substitute for a learning management system o Discussions o Posting articles and videos o Public rather than private

Facebook studies Miron & Ravid (2015) Students preferred over LMS Easier for instructors to use Baran (2010) Built library of learning resources Discussed resources

Facebook studies Wang, Woo, Quek, Yang and Liu (2012) Posting announcements Sharing resources Organizing weekly tutorial Conducting online discussions

Facebook at CSM Educational Research course o Develop 5-question survey o Test on classmates o Place survey on Facebook o From samples of 5 to samples of 100

Twitter Carpenter & Krutka (2014) Most used by teacher educators and K-12 teachers o Intense and multifaceted utilization o More common for professional development o Personalized, immediate nature o Positive and collaborative community

Twitter study 1 Junco, Elavsky and Heiberger (2013) Students required to interact with instructor on Twitter Components of improved outcomes o Faculty participation on platform o Integration based on theoretically-driven pedagogical model o Requiring Twitter usage

Twitter study 2 Evans, 2014 o Encouraged students to use Twitter for communicating with tutor and each other o Positive correlation found between amount of Twitter usage and student engagement

Twitter at CSM History, Philosophy and Trends in Education o Class hashtag o Find relevant articles, tweet them out, and lead a discussion about topic o Read all classmates’ tweets o Frequently re-tweeted and followed by others o Able to interact with teachers on a statewide and national basis

Pinterest o Virtual bulletin board o Popular in Teacher Education courses o No published journal articles

Pinterest at CSM Teacher Education course o Create personal children’s literature boards o Books from seven literature genres o Short summary, descriptions of features, grade level, and how to use in teaching

Pinterest at CSM Technology in the Classroom o Create Classroom Technologies pinboards o Select images from ed tech sites and pin them Describe how they would use each ed tech tool Grade level Why worth pinning, and how to use it

Pinterest at CSM o Also used in Theology, Occupational Therapy, and Nursing courses at CSM o Article “90+ percent of our students use Pinterest; shouldn’t we?”

How to use Pinterest Using Pinterest for Teaching

LinkedIn o No Teacher Education articles o Business Education articles in bibliography

Summary o Facebook o Twitter o Pinterest o Published articles o Used at CSM

Sources Albrecht, W. D. (2011). LinkedIn for accounting and business students. American Journal of Business Education, 4(10), Baran, B. (2010). Facebook as a formal instructional environment. British Journal of Educational Technology, 41(6), E146-E149. Boyd, D., & Ellison, N. B. (2013). Sociality through social network sites. In W. H. Dutton (Ed.), The Oxford handbook of internet studies (pp ). Oxford, UK: Oxford Press. Carpenter, J. P., & Krutka, D. G. (2014). How and why educators use Twitter: a survey of the field. Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 46(4), Cooper, B., & Naatus, M. K. (2014). Linkedin as a learning tool in business education. American Journal of Business Education, 7(4), Evans, C. (2014). Twitter for teaching: Can social media be used to enhance the process of learning? British Journal of Educational Technology, 45(5),

Sources Junco, R., Heibergert, G., & Loken, E. (2010). The effect of Twitter on college student engagement and grades. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, McCorkle, D., & McCorkle, Y. L. (2012). Using LinkedIn in the marketing classroom: exploratory insights and recommendations for teaching social media/networking. Marketing Education Review, 22(2), Miron, E., & Ravid, G. (2015). Facebook groups as an academic teaching aid: case study and recommendations for educators. Educational Technology & Society, 18(4), Peterson, R., & Dover, H. (2014). Building student networks with LinkedIn: the potential for connections, internships, and jobs. Marketing Education Review, 24(1),

Sources (cont.) Towey Schulz, M., Kolker, J., Haas, K., & Paris, A. (2016, April). 90+ percent of our students use Pinterest; shouldn’t we? Online 16(4), 2-4. Towey Schultz, M. Personal Communication (3/9/2016) Tuten, T., & Marks, M. (2012). Adoption of social media as educational technology among marketing educators. Marketing Education Review, 22(3),

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