Share Paper: "They just wanna know your business": Education students' representations of online communities

  1. Päivi Hakkarainen, Finlandia University, United States
  2. Wade Tillett, Finlandia University, United States
Tuesday, March 6 11:30 AM-12:30 PM George Bonnell

Abstract: This paper analyzes how education students represent the Internet and online communities. The site of this research is an undergraduate course entitled Digital Technologies and Applications for Teachers co-taught by the authors. In the course, digital storytelling is used, first, as a tool for education students to reflect on their relationship with the Internet. Second, digital storytelling is used as a research instrument to gain insight into education students’ understanding of the Internet. Other research data include audio recordings of class sessions and individual interviews with the students.