Physics students' social media learning behaviors and connectedness

Authors

Rachel Moll, Vancouver Island UniversityFollow
Wendy S. Nielsen, University of WollongongFollow
Cedric Linder, Uppsala UniversityFollow

RIS ID

104058

Publication Details

Moll, R., Nielsen, W. & Linder, C. (2015). Physics students' social media learning behaviors and connectedness. International Journal of Digital Literacy and Digital Competence, 6 (2), 16-35.

Abstract

Drawing on a complexity thinking perspective on learning, the conditions of emergence for complex systems were used as an analytic framework to characterize social media learning behaviours for their potential to promote connectedness. The authors' analysis identifies trends in secondary and tertiary physics students' social media use from focus group interview data and characterizes the nature of these behaviours for their potential to benefit students' understanding of the content of science curricula. While the authors' study focuses on physics learning, they propose implications that extend to other science learning contexts vis-a-vis how to transform connectivity learning behaviours into connectedness learning behaviours.