Students' Out-of-School Writing Practices in an Educational Facebook Application: The Case of Hot Dish

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Author(s): Thor Gibbins (University of Maryland, USA)and Christine Greenhow (Michigan State University, USA)
Copyright: 2016
Pages: 17
Source title: Social Media and Networking: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Information Resources Management Association (USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8614-4.ch046

Keywords: Information Science Reference / Media & Communications / Social Computing / Social Networking

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In this chapter, the authors seek to help educators understand trends in students' writing outside of the classroom, with a particular emphasis on illuminating students' purposes and practices in writing within social media spaces. The authors synthesize current research on students' Internet and social media practices and offer a case study from their own research on students' writing within an educational Facebook application called Hot Dish. This chapter seeks to elucidate the reciprocal relationship between students out of school writing using popular social media and their in-school practices. Ultimately, the authors seek to help readers make connections between what students are doing with new media in their leisure time and the improvement of students' writing performance in K-12 settings, believing there may be important but under-explored synergies.

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