Physics Students' Social Media Learning Behaviours and Connectedness

Rachel F. Moll, Wendy Nielsen and Cedric Linder
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Rachel F. Moll: Faculty of Education, Vancouver Island University, Nanaimo, Canada
Wendy Nielsen: School of Education, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia
Cedric Linder: Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

International Journal of Digital Literacy and Digital Competence (IJDLDC), 2015, vol. 6, issue 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.

Date: 2015
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