This paper was presented at the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education on March 18, 2014 by Sa Liu (representing the authors). It is authored by Joan Hughes, Yujung Ko, Mihyun Lim, and Sa Liu. If you would like a copy of the paper, please contact Dr. Joan Hughes An audio-recording of the presentation will be available soon at http://techedges.org

1. Preservice Teachers’ Social Networking
Use, Concerns, and Educational
Possibilities: Trends from 2008-2012
SITE 2014
Joan. E. Hughes, Yujung Ko, Mihyun Lim, Sa Liu
joanh@austin.utexas.edu
@techedges

2. Research Questions
1. How are preservice teachers using social technologies
in preservice teacher education?
1. What are preservice teachers’ concerns regarding
social technologies?
1. Are preservice teachers considering using social
technologies in their future teaching?

3. Methods
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• Participants
o 4 years, cross-sectional observational, descriptive
survey method study
o 206 preservice teachers, 8 preservice cohorts
between 2008-2012 in a U.S. teacher education
program of a large university
o Volunteer-based; Consented to participate
● Instruments
o A 20-30 minute end-of-program survey
o SPSS 21.0

4. Results - Question 1
How are preservice teachers using social
technologies in preservice teacher
education?

5. Frequency of Using SNS

6. Types of SNS Use
SNS Types Academic Year 2008-2009 2009-2010 2010-2011 2011-2012
Facebook 96.9 100.0 100.0 100.0
MySpace 32.8 13.5 7.5 0.0
LinkedIn 6.3 8.1 10.0 11.1
Friendster 1.6 0.0 2.5 0.0
Pinteresta - - - 72.7
Windows Live Spaces 1.6 0.0 0.0 0.0
Yahoo! 360 0 0 0 5.6
Otherb: Twitter 4.7 5.4 2.5 5.5
Otherb: Blog (Livejournal, Tumblr) 3.1 0 5.0 0
Otherb: Listserv 0 0 2.5 0
Otherb: Social network (iVillage) 1.6 0 0 0

7. Use of SNS for social/personal activities

8. SNS for Learning/Communicating/Sharing

9. Reading Blogs

10. Writing Blogs

11. Reading Wikis

12. Writing Wikis

13. Reading Twitter

14. Writing Twitter

15. Purpose of Use

16. Results - Question 2
What are preservice teachers’ concerns
regarding social technologies?

17. Preservice Teachers’ Restrictions on SNS

18. Preservice Teachers’ Concerns

19. Results - Question 3
Are preservice teachers considering
using social technologies in their future
teaching?

20. Academic Year Mean S.D. n
2010 - 2011 3.15 1.64 40
2011 - 2012 2.56 1.58 18
Note. Scale from 1 (very unlikely) to 6 (very likely).
Use SNS in Future Teaching

21. Limitations
• Generalizability
• Only one teacher education program
• Self-reported perceptions of SNS use

22. Q&A Session
E-mails: joanh@austin.utexas.edu
yujung.ko@utexas.edu
mhlim@utexas.edu
liusa@utexas.edu
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