RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article
T1 Twitter in initial teacher training: Interaction with social media as a source of teacher professional development for social studies prospective educators
A1 López Torres, Maria Esther
A1 Carril Merino, María Teresa
A1 Miguel Revilla, Diego
A1 Verdú Pérez, María Jesús
A1 Calle Carracedo, María Mercedes de la
K1 Education
K1 Social Sciences
K1 Methodology of the Social Sciences
K1 Ciencias Sociales
K1 Ciencias sociales - Metodología
K1 Teaching and Teacher Education
K1 Docentes - Formación
K1 Social media
K1 Medios de comunicación social
K1 Twitter
K1 Redes sociales (Internet)
K1 Teachers - Training of
K1 Docentes - Capacitación
K1 5312.04 Educación
AB The use of social media is now as prevalent as ever, and its educational ramifications still need to be fully explored, especially in initial teacher training. The aim of this study is to analyze social studies prospective teachers’ perceptions regarding the usefulness of social media for teacher professional development, and to generate communication, learning and engagement. This research also has the objective of exploring the effects of an intervention during an academic semester with three different groups of university students, applying a didactic strategy based on the use of Twitter, monitoring the interventions of 122 participants. A quantitative analysis was used to process the information obtained using questionnaires as well as the data obtained using MSocial, a tool for Social Network Analysis (SNA). Results indicate that, while pre-service teachers are not necessarily skeptical of the potential of social media for educational purposes, systematic interventions that promote interaction can positively affect their perception of the usefulness of social media. Results also show that the group where prospective educators interacted among themselves the most using Twitter during the interventions was the one that showed a significant increase in prospective teachers’ perception of the educational potential of social media.
PB MDPI
SN 2071-1050
YR 2022
FD 2022
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/60376
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/60376
LA eng
NO Sustainability, 2022, Vol. 14, Nº. 23, 16134
NO Producción Científica
DS UVaDOC
RD 22-nov-2024