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ERIC Number: EJ1058342
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2014-Dec
Pages: 17
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-1528-5804
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Effect of Faculty Member's Use of Twitter as Informal Professional Development during a Preservice Teacher Internship
Mills, Michael
Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education (CITE Journal), v14 n4 p451-467 Dec 2014
Educators have increasingly turned to Twitter as a means for receiving professional development and building and sustaining professional learning communities. This paper reports the results of a study of 82 undergraduate preservice teachers and their attitudes regarding Twitter as a medium for informal professional development support during their internships. Preservice teachers were invited to follow a faculty-mediated Twitter account and subsequently reported their willingness to continue using Twitter after their internships. Data from the end of the internships, as well as a follow-up of those continuing to follow the Twitter account 2 years after their internships, were analyzed for trends in acceptance of Twitter as an informal means of professional development support. Findings show that most preservice interns who followed the faculty-mediated Twitter account were inclined to using Twitter after their internships to learn about new classroom strategies and new technologies.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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