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Academic Uses of Social Media Technology in the High School English Classroom

dc.contributor.authorGotkin, Kelly
dc.date.accessioned2011-04-07T21:46:56Z
dc.date.available2011-04-07T21:46:56Z
dc.date.issued2011-04
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1803/4786
dc.descriptionTeaching and Learning Department Capstone Project.en_US
dc.description.abstractThe goal of this paper is to explore the potential uses of social media in high school English classrooms. Also explored is the reasoning behind integrating social media into the English curriculum. Social media use falls under the heading of digital literacies, but social media requires users to interact with each other, which sets it apart from non-social media such as PowerPoint presentations and computer word processing. Social media allows adolescents to perform multiple identities and to produce a wide variety of texts. Bringing these out-of-school practices into the classroom poses challenges for educators, though. Recent research begins to delve into how and why social media deserve a place in the classroom. Furthermore, educators may rely on case studies and practitioner reports to help fill in remaining gaps such as assessment of social media texts and processes. The paper explores how some teachers use social media to meet traditional goals of the English curriculum. Social media is a relatively new field, so there is also a discussion of some of its issues and implications of its future use.en_US
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherVanderbilt University. Peabody Collegeen_US
dc.subjectsocial mediaen_US
dc.subjectsecondary educationen_US
dc.subjecthigh school Englishen_US
dc.subject.lcshSocial mediaen_US
dc.subject.lcshMedia programs (Education)en_US
dc.subject.lcshEnglish language -- Study and teaching (Secondary) -- Computer-assisted instructionen_US
dc.subject.lcshEducational technologyen_US
dc.titleAcademic Uses of Social Media Technology in the High School English Classroomen_US
dc.typeCapstoneen_US
dc.description.collegePeabody College of Education and Human Developmenten_US
dc.description.departmentDepartment of Teaching and Learningen_US


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