What pedagogies do preservice teachers adopt in integration of social media in teaching?

What pedagogies do preservice teachers adopt in integration of social media in teaching?

• Szeto, Sing Ying Elson The Education University of Hong Kong

9th International Conference on Teaching, Education & Learning (ICTEL) (2018: Avani Pattaya Resort & Spa, Pattaya, Thailand)

• F Learning & Teaching
  • FD Application of Communicative Media, IT in Learning & Teaching
• M Teachers & Education for Teachers
  • MA Professional Education for Teachers
• M Teachers & Education for Teachers
  • MG Identities, Attitudes & Opinion of Educational Workers

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Post-Secondary Education

Understandings of social media and its pedagogical potentials remain controversial. Teachers tend to integrate social media in their teaching, which may bring about considerable impacts on their pedagogies in practices. In fact, this is an imperative issue which teacher educators in Hong Kong and those in other places are concerned. This paper reports a multi-case study about preservice teachers’ pedagogies when using social media in teaching. A classification of the social media landscape is called for due to confusion regarding the meanings of such terms as social media, Web 2.0 and user-created content. Two research questions were addressed: (1) What social media did the preservice teachers prefer to use in during their practicums; and (2) what pedagogies did the teachers adopted while involving social media in teaching in the placement schools? A total of 33 preservice teachers (N = 33) from a higher education institution in Hong Kong voluntarily participated in this study after open invitation. YouTube was the most popular standalone social medium and was also used in combination with other social media and non-social media websites to reflect the teachers’ practices in kindergartens, primary and secondary schools. Despite this, the preservice teachers mostly adopted didactic pedagogy with high frequencies of social media use during teaching practicums. This study contributes the salient understandings of pre-service teachers’ pedagogical orientations in using social media. Implications for teacher education are discussed. Copyright © 2018 ADTEL. All Rights Reserved

Paper presented at the 9th International Conference on Teaching, Education & Learning (ICTEL), Avani Pattaya Resort & Spa, Pattaya, Thailand.

• English

Conference Papers

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/bibs/aaa90928

2018-09-10