Paper Info
Title
Social networking and education: emerging research within CSCL
Abstract
In this paper I introduce a youth-initiated practice: online social networking that is transforming our society in important ways and has vast implications for learning research and education. I introduce the social and technical features that characterize social networking systems and outline results from emerging research that suggests the social and intellectual practices in which participants naturally engage and how these relate to the competencies increasingly valued in formal education. Next, I discuss one research projects which I am currently pursuing that build on early work and suggest how educational programs might employ such practices to advantage. Finally, I discuss what I see as the educative value of this technology in certain contexts and suggest a course for future research and development. My overall goals are to inform other researchers interested in pursuing similar projects and to stimulate interdisciplinary conversation about where such agendas fit within and advance the aims of CSCL.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2009
CSCL (1)
social networking system,educative value,important way,research project,certain context,early work,online social network,educational program,formal education
Field
DocType
Citations 
Competence (human resources),Conversation,Social network,Computer science,Knowledge management
Conference
8
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.62
8
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Christine Greenhow11179.69