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 studies education
K1 Initial teacher training
K1 Social media
K1 Teacher professional development
K1 5803.02 Preparación de Profesores
AB The use of social media is now as prevalent as ever, and its educational ramifications stillneed to be fully explored, especially in initial teacher training. The aim of this study is to analyzesocial studies prospective teachers’ perceptions regarding the usefulness of social media for teacherprofessional development, and to generate communication, learning and engagement. This researchalso has the objective of exploring the effects of an intervention during an academic semester withthree 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 theinformation obtained using questionnaires as well as the data obtained using MSocial, a tool forSocial Network Analysis (SNA). Results indicate that, while pre-service teachers are not necessarilyskeptical of the potential of social media for educational purposes, systematic interventions thatpromote interaction can positively affect their perception of the usefulness of social media. Resultsalso show that the group where prospective educators interacted among themselves the most usingTwitter during the interventions was the one that showed a significant increase in prospective teachers’perception of the educational potential of social media.
PB MDPI
YR 2022
FD 2022
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/64912
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/64912
LA eng
NO Sustainability, 2022, vol.14, n. 23, p. 1-16.
NO Producción Científica
DS UVaDOC
RD 16-ago-2024