ERIC Number: EJ1463890
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2021-Jul
Pages: 21
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ISSN: ISSN-0007-1013
EISSN: EISSN-1467-8535
Available Date: 2021-04-27
Inquiring Tweets Want to Know: #Edchat Supports for #RemoteTeaching during COVID-19
Christine Greenhow1; K. Bret Staudt Willet1; Sarah Galvin1
British Journal of Educational Technology, v52 n4 p1434-1454 2021
Social media use has spiked around the world during the COVID-19 global pandemic as people reach out for news, information, social connections, and support in their daily lives. Past work on professional learning networks (PLNs) has shown that teachers also use social media to find supports for their teaching and ongoing professional development. This paper offers quantitative analysis of over a half million Twitter #Edchat tweets as well as qualitative content analysis of teachers' question tweets (n = 1054) and teacher interviews (n = 4). These data and analyses provide evidence of the kinds of supports that teachers in the United States and Canada sought on social media during the rapid transition to emergency remote teaching in Spring 2020 and how these supports informed teaching practices. These results provide insights into PLN theory and teachers' social media use during times of disruption and crisis.
Descriptors: Social Media, Distance Education, COVID-19, Pandemics, Social Networks, Communities of Practice, Faculty Development, Computer Mediated Communication, Content Analysis, Teacher Attitudes, Cross Cultural Studies, Information Seeking, Educational Change, School Closing, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: United States; Canada
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Data File: URL: https://github.com/bretsw/edchat-covid19
Author Affiliations: 1Educational Psychology & Educational Technology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA