Jeffrey Carpenter, professor of education and director of the Teaching Fellows program, Scott Morrison, associate professor of education, and their co-authors published the article in the peer-reviewed journal Teaching and Teacher Education.
Jeffrey Carpenter, professor of education and director of the Teaching Fellows program, Scott Morrison, associate professor of education, Joshua Rosenberg of the University of Tennessee Knoxville, and Katrice Hawthorne of Virginia Commonwealth University (formerly at Elon), have co-authored an article in the peer-reviewed journal Teaching and Teacher Education.
The article, titled “Using social media in pre-service teacher education: The case of a program-wide Twitter hashtag” is available online here. The article explores the #ElonEd hashtag, which was originally developed in 2015 by Carpenter and Morrison as part of their use of social media with their teacher education students.
The article abstract reads as follows:
Herein we examine the use of a program-wide Twitter hashtag as a part of pre-service teacher education activities at one institution. After detailing the context around the hashtag’s use, we use data mining, descriptive statistics, and social network analysis to examine more than 49,000 tweets sent over six years. We describe the traffic associated with the program-wide Twitter hashtag, the users who contributed, and the interactions that occurred among pre-service teachers (PSTs) and other users. The hashtag appeared to feature some opportunities and challenges for PSTs to observe and interact with peers, alumni, faculty and staff, and in-service educators.
The article reference is:
Carpenter, J. P., Morrison, S. A., Rosenberg, J. M., & Hawthorne, K. A. (2023). Using social media in pre-service teacher education: The case of a program-wide Twitter hashtag. Teaching and Teacher Education, 124, 104036.