Carpenter Jeffrey P, Morrison Scott A, Craft Madeline, Lee Michalene
Elon University, Campus Box 2105, Elon, NC, 27244, USA.
Teach Teach Educ. 2020 Nov;96:103149. doi: 10.1016/j.tate.2020.103149. Epub 2020 Jul 24.
Social media are commonplace in many educators' lives, but their Instagram activities have received no prior attention in the empirical literature. We therefore created and disseminated a survey regarding educators' Instagram use. Analyses of 841 responses suggested participants were generally intensive users of Instagram who engaged in the exchange of both professional knowledge and wisdom, as well as affective support. In addition to identifying benefits to Instagram use, some participants offered critiques of Instagram's professional utility. We discuss the implications of these findings for educators' work in a digital era and the future of research on educators' social media activities.
社交媒体在许多教育工作者的生活中很常见，但他们在照片墙（Instagram）上的活动在实证文献中尚未受到过关注。因此，我们创建并发布了一项关于教育工作者使用照片墙情况的调查。对841份回复的分析表明，参与者普遍是照片墙的重度用户，他们既进行专业知识和智慧的交流，也提供情感支持。除了确定使用照片墙的好处外，一些参与者还对照片墙的专业效用提出了批评。我们讨论了这些发现对数字时代教育工作者工作的影响以及教育工作者社交媒体活动研究的未来。
