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- Title
"Friending" Vygotsky: A Social Constructivist Pedagogy of Knowledge Building Through Classroom Social Media Use.
- Authors
Churcher, Kalen M. A.; Downs, Edward; Tewksbury, Doug
- Abstract
Social media and web 2.0 technologies are an attractive supplement to the higher education experience and are embraced as a way to foster intra- and extracurricular knowledge generation among a class community. However, these collaborative media require a re-thinking of the theoretical framework through which we engage student communities of practice. This paper offers a social media-age rethinking of Vygotsky's (1978) conceptualization of social constructivism within learning communities by presenting two case studies of instructor uses of social media platforms through a Facebook community of practice and a wiki-based, student-generated exam. Each examines the pedagogical advantages and disadvantages of incorporating social media in course curricula through the development of social constructivist-based best practices in Web 2.0 course environments.
- Subjects
SOCIAL media in education; SOCIAL constructivism; WEB 2.0 research; FACEBOOK (Web resource); CURRICULUM; EDUCATIONAL technology research
- Publication
Journal of Effective Teaching, 2014, Vol 14, Issue 1, p33
- ISSN
1935-7869
- Publication type
Article