The importance of social media for today's youth often elicits teachers to explore educational
use of these media. However, many teachers appear to struggle with the tension between …

Many social networking sites have been thought to break down traditional hierarchies in
terms of society and global geography (Lewis, 2017). As an example, Twitter empowers …

This scoping review of research explores which disciplines have studied social media as it
relates to education and, more broadly, use by students of high school and college age. The …

Background and Context The increasingly widespread use of social media to expand one's
social connections is a relatively new but important phenomenon that has implications for …

Even though the use of social media in education is a now widely-studied topic, there still
does not seem to be a consensus for what social media may afford students or how best to …

Social media play an increasing role in our everyday lives and in education. Teachers and
administrators may use social media for professional learning, to find materials for use in the …

This paper presents research focused on the educational experience of students using the
microblogging platform Twitter for debate activities in three groups in different teacher …

Social media are a group of technologies such as Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn which
offer people chances to interact with one another in new ways. Teachers, like other …

Using an explanatory sequential mixed methods design, the study investigated high school
students' affordances for social media, their attitudes and beliefs about these new …

The proliferation of online resources and an increase in accessibility has led teachers to go
online to connect, share ideas and expand their own professional learning opportunities on …