A Different Experience in a Different Moment? Teachers' Social Media Use before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Autor/inn/en	Aguilar, Stephen J.; Rosenberg, Joshua M.; Greenhalgh, Spencer P.; Fütterer, Tim; Lishinski, Alex; Fischer, Christian
Titel	A Different Experience in a Different Moment? Teachers' Social Media Use before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Quelle	In: AERA Open, 7 (2021) 1, (17 Seiten) PDF als Volltext (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2) Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Aguilar, Stephen J.) ORCID (Rosenberg, Joshua M.) ORCID (Fütterer, Tim) ORCID (Fischer, Christian)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2332-8584
DOI	10.1177/23328584211063898
Schlagwörter	Social Media; Elementary School Teachers; COVID-19; Pandemics; Distance Education; Behavior Patterns; Professional Development; Communities of Practice; Decision Making; Stress Variables + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Soziale Medien; Elementary school; Teacher; Teachers; Grundschule; Volksschule; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Distance study; Distance learning; Fernunterricht; Community; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung
Abstract	Teachers participate in professional learning activities to enhance their pedagogical knowledge and share best practices--and the increasing role of technologies in education, including social media, is shifting how this professional learning occurs. The COVID-19 pandemic provided an opportunity to consider the role of social media for professional learning. Using intensive longitudinal methods, we repeatedly surveyed 14 teachers' use of social media both before and during the pandemic (N = 386 total responses). We found patterns in social media platforms uptake and their purposes, but teachers' use of social media was largely idiosyncratic. Also, teachers demonstrated notable shifts in social media use after the pandemic started; multilevel models indicated that teachers were more likely to use social media to connect and share, especially, as well as learn and follow, compared with before the pandemic. Higher levels of COVID-19-related family stress were also associated with more use of social media to find materials. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01