Jeffrey Carpenter, associate professor of education and director of the Teaching Fellows program, and his co-authors published the article in the peer-reviewed journal British Journal of Educational Technology.
Jeffrey Carpenter, associate professor of education and director of the Teaching Fellows program, Victoria Marín of Oldenburg University (Germany), and Gemma Tur of the University of the Balearic Islands (Spain) co-authored an article in the peer-reviewed journal British Journal of Educational Technology. The British Journal of Educational Technology is the second highest impact journal in the field of educational technology, according to Google Scholar metrics.
The article, titled “Pre-service teachers’ perceptions of social media data privacy
policies” is available online here. The abstract reads as follows:
“Matters of data privacy related to social media are increasingly relevant for educators as happenings such as the 2018 Cambridge Analytica scandal have attracted public attention. Many educators use social media for professional purposes, including with their students and should, therefore, be knowledgeable regarding data privacy issues that impact education. This research explores this issue from an interpretive paradigm based on a mixed‐methods approach derived from survey data from an international sample of 148 pre‐service teachers who were studying education courses at three universities. Data suggest that pre‐service teachers see both educational and distracting potential in social media, but lack knowledge regarding relevant policies and regulations, which reflects trends in the broader population. Attitudes toward educational social media use were not correlated with awareness of data privacy policies. However, comfort with companies’ use of personal and student data and faith in governments’ capacity to regulate social media companies were correlated. We discuss our findings in relation to the use of social media and related data privacy considerations and the need for data literacy training in teacher education programs. We include recommendations in light of the findings.”
The article reference is: Marín, V. I., Carpenter, J. P., & Tur, G. Pre‐service teachers’ perceptions of social media data privacy policies. British Journal of Educational Technology. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjet.13035