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Greenhow, Christine; Gleason, Benjamin – Educational Forum, 2012
This article defines Twitter[TM]; outlines the features, affordances, and common uses; and conceptualizes "tweeting" as a literacy practice, comprising both traditional and new literacies, and impacting both informal and formal learning settings. Also provided is an overview of traditional and new literacies, and insights from a scan of the…
Descriptors: Web 2.0 Technologies, Social Networks, Computer Mediated Communication, Web Sites
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Greenhow, Christine; Robelia, Beth – Learning, Media and Technology, 2009
All students today are increasingly expected to develop technological fluency, digital citizenship, and other twenty-first century competencies despite wide variability in the quality of learning opportunities schools provide. Social network sites (SNSs) available via the internet may provide promising contexts for learning to supplement…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Low Income, Low Income Groups, High School Students