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Technology And Social Media In Motivating At-Risk High School Students To Complete High School, Rebecca Mix Yard
Technology And Social Media In Motivating At-Risk High School Students To Complete High School, Rebecca Mix Yard
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Overall, 11% of high school students leave school without a diploma, and the percentage is higher for at-risk populations. High school graduates earn higher salaries and are healthier and more law abiding than dropouts. Research is limited on the motivation of at-risk students to graduate from high school related to their technological identity to include technology and social media in their learning schema. This qualitative case study explored at-risk students' perceptions of social media, personal learning networks, and informal learning in facilitating their graduation. Pink's concept of motivation, Siemens's connectivism theory, and Bingham and Conner's theory of engagement and social …
Making Personal And Professional Learning Mobile: Blending Mobile Devices, Social Media, Social Networks, And Mobile Apps To Support Ples, Plns, & Prolns, Michael Grant, Yu-Chang Hsu
Making Personal And Professional Learning Mobile: Blending Mobile Devices, Social Media, Social Networks, And Mobile Apps To Support Ples, Plns, & Prolns, Michael Grant, Yu-Chang Hsu
Educational Technology Faculty Publications and Presentations
Mobile technologies have become an integrated, or inseparable, part of individuals’ daily lives for work, play, and learning. While social networking has been important and in practice in our society even before human civilization and certainly prior to the advent of computers, nowadays, the opportunities and venues of building a network are unprecedented. Currently, the opportunities and tools to build a network to support personal and professional learning are enabled by mobile technologies (e.g., mobile apps, devices, and services), web-based applications (e.g., Diigo and RSS readers), and social-networking applications and services (e.g., Facebook, Google+, and Twitter). The purpose of this …
Teacher Beliefs On Personal Learning, Collaboration, And Participation In Virtual Communities Of Practice, Rose Arnell
Teacher Beliefs On Personal Learning, Collaboration, And Participation In Virtual Communities Of Practice, Rose Arnell
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Virtual communities of practice have been used to improve teachers' instructional practice; yet, many of these communities do not take into account the effect of teachers' personal learning and collegial collaboration beliefs on engagement within this model. The purpose of this qualitative case study was to examine if teaching was enhanced through participation in virtual communities of practice and determine if teachers' personal beliefs prior to entering these communities influenced their engagement. Wenger's social learning theory served as the conceptual framework. The research questions asked how teachers' beliefs on personal learning and their beliefs on collaboration influenced their engagement in …