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Engagement through Microblogging: Educator Professional Development via Twitter
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Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Krutka, Daniel G. – Professional Development in Education, 2015
Traditional, top-down professional development (PD) can render teachers mere implementers of the ideas of others, but there is some hope that the participatory nature of social media such as Twitter might support more grassroots PD. To better understand Twitter's role in education, we conducted a survey of K-16 educators regarding their use of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Publishing, Web Sites, Computer Mediated Communication
How and Why Educators Use Twitter: A Survey of the Field
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Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Krutka, Daniel G. – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2014
While the microblogging service Twitter is increasingly popular among educators and offers numerous affordances for learning, its relationship with formal education systems remains complicated by generally ambivalent educator attitudes and institutional policies. To better understand the role Twitter plays in education, we conducted a survey of…
Descriptors: Social Media, Computer Mediated Communication, Teacher Attitudes, Technology Uses in Education
Retention of Rural Speech Pathologists.
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Foster, Felicity; Harvey, Brian – Rural Special Education Quarterly, 1996
Stresses the need for research examining the critical shortage of speech-language pathologists (SLPs) in rural Canada. Results of a survey of 87 speech language pathologists in rural British Columbia and Saskatchewan (Canada) were similar to earlier American studies in that employment practices, employment benefits, lifestyle, and other personal…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Employment Practices, Foreign Countries, Job Satisfaction