Social Media’s Impact on Instruction

.title[
# Social Media’s Impact on Instruction
]
.subtitle[
## Beginning Teachers’ Self-Directed Professional Learning
]
.author[
### Bret Staudt Willet | Florida State University
]
.date[
### April 15, 2023
]

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**View the slides:**

[bretsw.com/aera23-teachers-social-media](https://bretsw.com/aera23-teachers-social-media/)

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Social media offer new opportunities for beginning teachers

but also introduce new challenges

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Beginning teachers must juggle more outlets

and potentially competing voices for professional learning

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Unclear how professional learning through social media

impacts instructional practice

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**Professional Learning Networks:**

Resources + People + Spaces

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**Resources:**

knowledge, skills, teaching tools, curricular materials, and encouragement

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**People:**

individuals and groups

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**Spaces:**

online and offline

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**Design:**

Multiple case study

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**Participants:**

- College of Education alumni (*n* = 5)

- Science teachers (across middle and high school)

- First or second year of teaching

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**Data Collection:**

- 8 weeks of diary entries reflecting upon social media use

- 5 one-hour interviews with each participant

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**Data Analysis:**

- Open-ended thematic analysis of diary entries and interview transcripts

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**Social Media Ecosystem**

- Many spaces where beginning teachers are searching and following

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**Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) Development**

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**Pedagogical knowledge:** *How* to teach

- deepening understanding

- practicing skills

- reviewing concepts

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**Content knowledge:** *What* to teach

- getting ideas and inspiration

- staying up-to-date on news and topics

- giving students different perspectives

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**Frustrations:**

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**Lack of depth:**

No evidence of sensemaking or critical thinking

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**"New" model:**

- Synthesized PCK model for using social media *and* adapting instructional practices

- Focus on self-directing the search for both **what** and **how** to teach

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**"New" teacher knowledge and competencies:**

- Professional development for self-directing the search for both **what** and **how** to teach

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- Recruit larger sample

- Refine longitudinal design

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- Social media offer new opportunities for beginning teachers but also introduce new challenges

- Refocus efforts to support teachers as they supplement and self-direct their professional learning

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**Bret Staudt Willet** | Florida State University