Advancing Teacher Learning

.title[
# Advancing Teacher Learning
]
.subtitle[
## Big Ideas and Small Musings
]
.author[
### Bret Staudt Willet | Florida State University
]
.date[
### April 10, 2026
]

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**View the slides:**

[bretsw.com/aera26-teaching-learning](https://bretsw.com/aera26-teaching-learning/)

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*Digital Professionalism and Immersive Technologies in Teacher Education and Practice*

**Advancing Teacher Learning: Big Ideas and Small Musings**

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### *Why Pre-Service Teachers Don’t Use Social Media: Prerequisites and Reasons of Non-Users*

**Hermann Dzingel:** hermann.dzingel@uni-potsdam.de

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- **Big Idea:** Non-use is a research gap

- **Implications:** Non-use is a conscious, context-dependent decision; non-use is a legitimate professional stance

- **I’m left thinking about:** What are all the places where teachers are learning?

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### *The Impact of Social Media on K-12 Teachers’ Perceptions of Their Profession: An Experimental Study*

**Victoria Puglia:** victoria.puglia@mass.gov <br> **Suzanne Graham:** suzanne.graham@unh.edu

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- **Big Idea:** A social message's impact depends on its strength, immediacy, and the number of exposures

- **Implications:** Exposure to negative social media content diminished participants' perceptions of their professional environment

- **I’m left thinking about:** How can we observe Social Impact in practice?

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### *Integrate Virtual Reality in Science Education: An Ethnographic Case Study of Faculty and Students/Pre-service Teachers Experiences*

**Wei Wu:** weiwu@mail.fresnostate.edu

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- **Big Idea:** Pre-service teachers rarely receive pedagogically guided experiences that help them recognize VR's instructional promise and limitations

- **Implications:** Exposing future educators to emerging technologies like VR at an early stage can cultivate *change agents* who will transform future science education

- **I’m left thinking about:** Why does widespread VR adoption remain sporadic?

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### Contextual Effects

**Sociotechnical Systems:** Non-use of social media, positive/negative Instagram, VR

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### Individual Experiences

**Invisible Labor:** Background, Identity, Care, Precarious, Remote

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### Naturalistic Inquiry

**Teachers' Learning Ecosystems:** Where and how are teachers actually learning?

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**Let's Connect More**

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**Hermann Dzingel:** hermann.dzingel@uni-potsdam.de

**Victoria Puglia:** victoria.puglia@mass.gov <br> **Suzanne Graham:** suzanne.graham@unh.edu

**Wei Wu:** weiwu@mail.fresnostate.edu

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**Bret Staudt Willet** <br><br> Florida State University