#Collaborations: Using Social Media to Enhance Partnerships, Learning, and Understanding

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

Social Media dominates many facets of professional and personal life, and the medium has changed how individuals interact with another, receive their news, and understand the world around them. Scholars, administrators, teachers, and organizational leaders have created collaborations about how to best use social media to enhance mentorship, learning, and understanding. In this session researchers and organizational leaders will address a) social media’s potential to advance productive interactions among researchers and practitioners and to enhance how teachers work together and curate information to improve student success, and b) researchers and organizations’ partnerships to counter students’ absorption of misinformation and to develop students’ ability to become more digitally literate.

Sub Unit

• Public Good: Power and Possibilities

Chair

• Joseph E. Kahne, University of California - Riverside

Papers

• Engaging and Empowering Practitioners as Researchers and Scholars Through Social Media Platforms and Mentorship - Aaron Jermaine Griffen, DSST Public Schools

• Educators Meet the Fifth Estate: A Social Media Vantage Into Teachers' Curation and Students' Success - Kaitlin T. Torphy Knake, Michigan State University; Kenneth A. Frank, Michigan State University; Jiliang Tang, Michigan State University

• Always Tweet: How Socially Networked Researchers and Practitioners Are Solving the Social Network's Problems - Michael Caulfield, Washington State University

Discussant

• Joseph E. Kahne, University of California - Riverside