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Teachers without Borders: Professional Learning Spanning Social Media, Place, and Time
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Greenhow, Christine; Lewin, Cathy; Staudt Willet, K. Bret – Learning, Media and Technology, 2023
Educators must consider how today's technology-mediated environments expand our conceptualization of learning contexts and the continuities and tensions between learning and participation in various settings. The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted educational systems worldwide, necessitating emergency remote teaching and coinciding with increased social…
Descriptors: Social Media, Computer Mediated Communication, Foreign Countries, Middle School Teachers
Foundations of Online Learning: Challenges and Opportunities
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Greenhow, Christine; Graham, Charles R.; Koehler, Matthew J. – Educational Psychologist, 2022
"Online learning"--learning that involves interactions that are mediated through using digital, typically internet-based, technology--is pervasive, multi-faceted, and evolving, creating opportunities and challenges for educational research in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. In this special issue, we advance an interdisciplinary agenda…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Educational Research, Interdisciplinary Approach, Educational Technology
Social Media and Education: Reconceptualizing the Boundaries of Formal and Informal Learning
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Greenhow, Christine; Lewin, Cathy – Learning, Media and Technology, 2016
It is argued that social media has the potential to bridge formal and informal learning through participatory digital cultures. Exemplars of sophisticated use by young people support this claim, although the majority of young people adopt the role of consumers rather than full participants. Scholars have suggested the potential of social media for…
Descriptors: Social Media, Informal Education, Models, Learning Theories
Twitteracy: Tweeting as a New Literacy Practice
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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
Informal Learning and Identity Formation in Online Social Networks
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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
Connecting Informal and Formal Learning Experiences in the Age of Participatory Media: Commentary on Bull et al. (2008)
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Greenhow, Christine – Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education (CITE Journal), 2008
The recent editorial in this journal by Bull et al. ("Connecting Informal and Formal Learning Experiences in the Age of Participatory Media" Vol 8, Iss 2) discussed the challenges of bridging formal learning practices and informal learning opportunities within the context of today's Web-enhanced world. In this commentary, Christine…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Conventional Instruction, Influence of Technology, Behavioral Objectives