site 2014 presentation: preservice teachers' social networking use, concerns, and educational...
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This paper was presented at the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education on March 18, 2014 by Sa Liu (representing the authors). It is authored by Joan Hughes, Yujung Ko, Mihyun Lim, and Sa Liu. If you would like a copy of the paper, please contact Dr. Joan Hughes An audio-recording of the presentation will be available soon at http://techedges.orgTRANSCRIPT
Preservice Teachers’ Social Networking Use, Concerns, and Educational Possibilities: Trends from 2008-2012
SITE 2014Joan. E. Hughes, Yujung Ko, Mihyun Lim, Sa Liu
[email protected]@techedges
Research Questions
1. How are preservice teachers using social technologies in preservice teacher education?
2. What are preservice teachers’ concerns regarding social technologies?
3. Are preservice teachers considering using social technologies in their future teaching?
Methods
• Participantso 4 years, cross-sectional observational, descriptive
survey method study o 206 preservice teachers, 8 preservice cohorts
between 2008-2012 in a U.S. teacher education program of a large university
o Volunteer-based; Consented to participate
● Instrumentso A 20-30 minute end-of-program surveyo SPSS 21.0
Results - Question 1
How are preservice teachers using social
technologies in preservice teacher
education?
Frequency of Using SNS
Types of SNS Use
SNS Types\ Academic Year 2008-2009 2009-2010 2010-2011 2011-2012
Facebook 96.9 100.0 100.0 100.0
MySpace 32.8 13.5 7.5 0.0
LinkedIn 6.3 8.1 10.0 11.1
Friendster 1.6 0.0 2.5 0.0
Pinteresta - - - 72.7
Windows Live Spaces 1.6 0.0 0.0 0.0
Yahoo! 360 0 0 0 5.6
Otherb: Twitter 4.7 5.4 2.5 5.5
Otherb: Blog (Livejournal, Tumblr) 3.1 0 5.0 0
Otherb: Listserv 0 0 2.5 0
Otherb: Social network (iVillage) 1.6 0 0 0
Use of SNS for social/personal activities
SNS for Learning/Communicating/Sharing
Reading Blogs
Writing Blogs
Reading Wikis
Writing Wikis
Reading Twitter
Writing Twitter
Purpose of Use
Results - Question 2
What are preservice teachers’ concerns
regarding social technologies?
Preservice Teachers’ Restrictions on SNS
Preservice Teachers’ Concerns
Results - Question 3
Are preservice teachers considering
using social technologies in their future
teaching?
Academic Year Mean S.D. n
2010 - 2011 3.15 1.64 40
2011 - 2012 2.56 1.58 18
Note. Scale from 1 (very unlikely) to 6 (very likely).
Use SNS in Future Teaching
Limitations
• Generalizability
• Only one teacher education program
• Self-reported perceptions of SNS use
Q&A Session
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