How Do US Teachers Align Instructional Resources to The Common Core State Standards: A Case of Pinterest

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Title: How Do US Teachers Align Instructional Resources to The Common Core State Standards: A Case of Pinterest
Abstract/Description: Social media has become an emergent phenomenon in education in US. Yet, there is a void in our understanding and research on teachers’ professional behaviour within virtual spaces. This paper examines a sample of early career teachers’ curation of curriculum materials within Pinterest in the context of a national education policy reform—the adoption of the Common Core State Standards. By aligning the content of the resources that teachers actively seek out online to the Common Core State Standards, we provide an account of the instructional resources accessed and shared as teachers make sense and respond to the policy implementation. Furthermore, by leveraging a novel network approach—Epistemic Network Analysis, we provide a visualization of teachers’ conceptualization of varying content and how they relate instruction across content within their curriculum curation. Finally, by comparing networks of teachers from different states, we find evidence of differences in teachers’ behaviour patterns as they respond to policy change.
Author/creator: Hu, Sihua; Torphy, Kaitlin T.; Chen, Zixi; Eagan, Brendan
Date: 2018
In publication: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Social Media and Society - SMSociety '18
At conference: The 9th International Conference on Social Media and Society
Pages: 315-319
Publisher: ACM Press
Resource type: Research/Scholarly Media
Resource status/form: en Published Text
Scholarship genre: en Empirical
Keywords: Common Core State Standards; curriculum curation; education policy in US; Pinterest; mathematics teachers
IRE Approach/Concept: Epistemic Network Analysis; Social Media; Social Network Analysis
Featured case/project: Pinterest
Primary national context: United States
Open access/full-text available: en Yes
Peer reviewed: en Yes
ISBN: 978-1-4503-6334-1
DOI: 10.1145/3217804.3217936
URL: Official Conference Proceedings Webpage (via ACM Digital Library); Open Access Short Paper (via ACM Digital Library)
Citation: Hu, S., Torphy, K. T., Chen, Z., & Eagan, B. (2018). How Do US Teachers Align Instructional Resources to The Common Core State Standards: A Case of Pinterest. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Social Media and Society - SMSociety ’18, 315–319. https://doi.org/10.1145/3217804.3217936
Place: Copenhagen, Denmark

Item sets: Open Access Resource (IRE)

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