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Slide deck for AECT 2021 talk: "Build-Your-Own Support Systems: Identity-Agency and Professional Learning with Social Media"

Build-Your-Own Support Systems: Identity-Agency and Professional Learning with Social Media

K. Bret Staudt Willet

11/4/2021

Slide deck for AECT 2021

Abstract

This presentation focuses on identity-agency as a framework to better understand professional learning networks in social media research. The study addressed reasons why early career teachers construct support systems during induction, the skills and resources they seek, from whom, and how they use social media to expand the tools, people, and spaces available to them. Semi-structured interviews with nine early career teachers provided data for exploring how social media create new opportunities and tensions.

Keywords

qualitative research, social media, agency, professional learning networks, PLNs