Category: Social Media
Astro-turfing educational policy: the influence of think tanks and social media
This was my presentation at AARE 2022
Sensationalised, unfounded policy will have little influence on educational outcomes
Educational policy has, and will continue to have, a role to play in both state and federal elections for the foreseeable future. This is an article I wrote for EducationHQ
Presentation to the IEUA
This is a presentation that I made to the IEUA about Digital Astro-turfing
Education focussed Pracademics on Twitter: Building democratic fora
This is a presentation that I did with Steven Kolber regarding our work on #edureading.
#eduReading: Rethinking the Role of Pracademics, Social Media and Democracy in Doing Educational Research
This is a presentation that I did with Steven Kolber at AARE 2021.
How to bridge the teacher and academic divide online
The Problem & the Proposal One of the most widely accepted facts in education is that teachers and academics often do not mix. This hurts teachers engagement with research and its application in the classrooms. Social media, and Twitter especially, holds the potential to bring together teachers, academics, and others within shared spaces to develop…
Paper: Education focused pracademics on twitter: building democratic fora
Purpose – This paper explores the features of pracademic practice within online spaces where pracademics, academics and teachers interact. Design/methodology/approach – This paper uses autoethnographic case studies to showcase the boundary- spanning thinking of two pracademics, one a practicing teacher, the other an early career researcher, to provide an overview of how pracademics are engaging with research…
#eduReading at #AussieEd
These are the provocations from the #AussieEd session I hosted with Steven Kolber.
Civic and Media Literacy
I recently came across this article by Gianfranco Polizzi and Marina Cino Pagliarello which beings by describing the current state of media literacy and citizenship education in the United Kingdom, before calling for the inclusion of more media literacy content and material within the compulsory citizenship syllabus. It’s a good article, and, while the UK…