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Social media labs in the Social Education Degree: Exploring digital competences of university students
Gutiérrez Pequeño, José Miguel
Anguita Martínez, Rocío
Pradena García, Yasna Patricia
Social media
Medios de comunicación social
Enseñanza - Innovaciones
Technology and Digital Education
Tecnología educativa
Educational technology
Teaching
Information society
Sociedad de la información
Higher education
Enseñanza superior
Producción Científica
Social media labs, as spaces for experimentation, have recently become one of the main mechanisms for innovation. The role of universities, with degrees focused on subjects linked to social innovation, can be a fundamental factor in social development. It is essential to transform traditional centres into spaces for dialogue, into creative ecosystems, simultaneously dedicated to reflection and debate, research and production, training, and socialisation. Within this framework, we carried out ethnographic research on the implementation of a social media laboratory developed with social education students during the last two academic years at the faculty of education in Palencia. The results provide evidence of the development by university students in some skills related to creativity, reflection, and debate, as well as various digital skills. In line with the existing literature, we show how the social media laboratory enables the acquisition of knowledge situated in the social reality of the environment that is of great use to future social educators, as well as some of its limitations in these processes of experimentation and social innovation.
2023-07-31T11:29:44Z
2023-07-31T11:29:44Z
2023
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Education Sciences, 2023, Vol. 13, Nº. 1, 20
2227-7102
https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/60681
10.3390/educsci13010020
20
1
Education Sciences
13
2227-7102
eng
https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7102/13/1/20
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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