What do Campfires and Social Media have in Common? Improvement

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Title: What do Campfires and Social Media have in Common? Improvement
Alternate name: Chapter 19
Abstract/Description: Chapter 19, by Kaitlin Torphy Knake, Jordan Tait, and Kenneth Frank, moves the focus from more brick-and-mortar educational contexts into virtual spaces facilitated by social media and, by doing so, pushes the boundaries on our conceptualization of where improvement work takes place. This innovative chapter is about the informal learning that takes place in self-organized spaces between and among teachers as they share and exchange resources related to improvement efforts. Educators are increasingly sharing ideas and practices across a variety of platforms, including Pinterest, Twitter, Teachers Pay Teachers, Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube. These platforms afford educators the opportunity to interact at times of their choosing. Educators are now no longer constrained to school hours or formal meetings for collaboration and can share at all hours of the day and throughout the school year. The interaction among improvement, virtual spaces, and teacher learning has received limited attention in the improvement research space, and this chapter provides important necessary foundations as well as methods related to capturing and analyzing data.; [Quoted from Handbook p. 379]
Author/creator: Torphy Knake, Kaitlin T.; Tait, Jordan; Frank, Kenneth A.
Date: 2022
In publication: The Foundational Handbook on Improvement Research in Education
Editor: Peurach, Donald J.; Russell, Jennifer Lin; Cohen-Vogel, Lora; Penuel, William R.
Pages: 443-464
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Resource type: en Research/Scholarly Media
Resource status/form: en Published Text
Scholarship genre: en Synthesis/Overview; en Methodological
IRE Approach/Concept: Social Media; Networked Improvement Community (NIC); Big Data; Platform Studies
Featured case/project: Pinterest; Teachers Pay Teachers; Public Instructional Network of School Resources (PINSR)
Primary national context: United States
Open access/full-text available: en No
ISBN: 978-1-5381-5234-8
URL: Publication Webpage
Citation: Torphy Knake, K. T., Tait, J., & Frank, K. A. (2022). What do Campfires and Social Media have in Common? Improvement. In D. J. Peurach, J. L. Russell, L. Cohen-Vogel, & W. R. Penuel (Eds.), The Foundational Handbook on Improvement Research in Education (pp. 443-464). Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781538152348/The-Foundational-Handbook-on-Improvement-Research-in-Education

Item sets: The Foundational Handbook on Improvement Research in Education

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