Comparing US and Spanish student teachers’ perceptions on Social Media

World Conference on Educational SciencesFebruary 2017

Gemma Tur Jeffrey CarpenterVictoria I. Marín

COMPARATIVE STUDY

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SOCIAL MEDIA USAGE IN US & SPAINSource Facebook Twitter Instagram Pinterest

U.S.A. 2016(Pew

Research Center report,

2016)

79 24 32 31

Spain 2014 (International Advertising

Bureau, 2015)

96 56 25 7

EDUCATIONAL USAGES OF SOCIAL MEDIA

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TWITTER LEARNING ACTIVITY

THE STUDY

153 participants: • 100 education students

from Spain (65.4%) • 53 from the U.S.

(34.6%).

RESEARCH QUESTIONS

• Are there differences in the way U.S. and Spanish pre-service teachers use Social Media?

• Are there differences in the way U.S. and Spanish pre-service teachers perceive the educational use of Twitter and other social media?

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What social media services do you use?

%SPAIN % USA χ2(1) p value

Facebook 92 1004.474 .034

Pinterest 10 67.955.278 <.001

Linkedin 5 30.218.56 <.001

Whatsapp 96 15.1104.159 <.001

GroupMe 0 81.1112.847 <.001

Instagram 63 73.62.072 .150

Twitter 51 60.41.503 .472

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Which of the following social media services do you think have educational uses? (Check all that apply).

%SPAIN % USA χ2(1) p value

Facebook 33% 41.5%4.436 .035

Pinterest 15% 66%41.015 <.001

Linkedin 8% 47.2%31.418 <.001

Whatsapp 14% 5.7%2.439 .118

GroupMe 5% 30.2%18.56 <.001

Instagram 24% 24.5%0.005 .942

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DISCUSSION & CONCLUSIONS

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THANKS!• Dr. Gemma Tur

@gemturfergemma.tur@uib.es University of the Balearic Islands, Spain

• Dr. Jeffrey Carpenter @doccarpenterjcarpenter13@elon.eduElon University, U.S

• Dr. Victoria I. Marín @vmarinjvictoria.marin@uni-oldenburg.de Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany

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