In the midpoint of the social media world
It has been six weeks out of twelve weeks of the adventure of the social media world. The first few weeks were frankly a little overwhelming and stressful by getting used to both online learning and the use of social media. In addition, I felt burdened by new concepts related to social phenomena, which were totally new to me. However, the process of organizing the study with discussion and blogging and finding additional content seems to have helped adapt.
After learning and using important concepts first, the understanding of the related papers has become more comfortable, and the distinction has become a little clearer. In particular, there were concerns about how to use a term, and it has also been resolved a little from recent articles related to my interests.
And I have realized steps I need to do first before I dive into complicated or specific research questions about teachers’ personal learning networks. I am interested in elementary school teachers’ professional development in PLNs. Still, relevant concepts or variables of elementary school teachers’ behavior in PLNs have been muddy yet, but I am confident to say that I changed research focus about teachers’ knowledge from TPACK to networked knowledge activities. I kept using information behaviors as specific lenses of my research questions, but the more accurate concept was networked knowledge activities because I regard teachers’ behaviors in PLNs as informal learning performances.
In terms of my status as an online learner and social media user, it is still awkward, leaving tweets and communication with colleagues in online environments in English. I can feel that my English is improved a little, but it feels like different from being active participation on the web. Because I've discovered and explored the potential of social media, I'll try to be more confident in the remaining half of the adventures. Way to go!
After learning and using important concepts first, the understanding of the related papers has become more comfortable, and the distinction has become a little clearer. In particular, there were concerns about how to use a term, and it has also been resolved a little from recent articles related to my interests.
And I have realized steps I need to do first before I dive into complicated or specific research questions about teachers’ personal learning networks. I am interested in elementary school teachers’ professional development in PLNs. Still, relevant concepts or variables of elementary school teachers’ behavior in PLNs have been muddy yet, but I am confident to say that I changed research focus about teachers’ knowledge from TPACK to networked knowledge activities. I kept using information behaviors as specific lenses of my research questions, but the more accurate concept was networked knowledge activities because I regard teachers’ behaviors in PLNs as informal learning performances.
In terms of my status as an online learner and social media user, it is still awkward, leaving tweets and communication with colleagues in online environments in English. I can feel that my English is improved a little, but it feels like different from being active participation on the web. Because I've discovered and explored the potential of social media, I'll try to be more confident in the remaining half of the adventures. Way to go!
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