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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
Hur, Jung Won; Brush, Thomas A. – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2009
The purpose of this study was to examine reasons for teacher participation in online communities of K-12 teachers. The authors interviewed 23 teachers from three self-generated online communities and analyzed more than 2,000 postings in those communities. The findings indicated five reasons for participation: (a) sharing emotions, (b) utilizing…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Teacher Participation, Teacher Attitudes, Interviews