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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
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The Foundational Handbook on Improvement Research in Education

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