Student attention, engagement and participation in a twitter-friendly classroom

Ally, Mustafa (2012) Student attention, engagement and participation in a twitter-friendly classroom. In: 23rd Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS 2012): Location, Location, Location, 3-5 Dec 2012, Geelong, Australia.

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Abstract

Guided by a participatory action research methodology, this paper outlines an approach to integrating the social media Twitter platform within a tertiary education course, based on a social, constructivist pedagogy. It explores the perceptions of students on the benefits of using this technology for enhancing attentiveness, engagement and participation in the classroom. Previous studies have shown that greater participation and communication can stimulate student learning and lead to better academic performance, increased motivation, and an appreciation of different points of views. The untested hypothesis is that social media tools like Twitter can foster this type of communication. Students posted their responses during classroom activities via Twitter and then were surveyed on their perceived benefits associated with using the social media platform. The preliminary findings of the qualitative study suggest that, while not without its challenges, social media tools like Twitter have the potential to be used effectively for education-based activities in the classroom to improve communication and engagement both amongst the students and with the instructor.

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Additional Information:	Mustafa Ally © 2012. The authors assign to ACIS and educational and non-profit institutions a non-exclusive licence to use this document for personal use and in courses of instruction provided that the article is used in full and this copyright statement is reproduced. The authors also grant a non-exclusive licence to ACIS to publish this document in full in the Conference Papers and Proceedings. Those documents may be published on the World Wide Web, CD-ROM, in printed form, and on mirror sites on the World Wide Web. Any other usage is prohibited without the express permission of the authors.
Faculty / Department / School:	Historic - Faculty of Business and Law - School of Information Systems
Date Deposited:	28 Jan 2013 02:41
Last Modified:	17 Sep 2014 04:50
Fields of Research :	13 Education > 1303 Specialist Studies in Education > 130306 Educational Technology and Computing 08 Information and Computing Sciences > 0805 Distributed Computing > 080502 Mobile Technologies 10 Technology > 1005 Communications Technologies > 100510 Wireless Communications
Socio-Economic Objective:	C Society > 93 Education and Training > 9302 Teaching and Instruction > 930203 Teaching and Instruction Technologies
URI:	http://eprints.usq.edu.au/id/eprint/22703

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