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Informal learning and identity formation in online social networks

Greenhow, Christine, Robelia, Beth·2009·Learning, Media and Technology
DOI 10.1080/17439880902923580
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All students today are increasingly expected to develop technological fluency, digital citizenship, and other twenty‐first century competencies despite wide variability in the quality of learning opportunities schools provide. Social network sites (SNSs) available via the internet may provide promising contexts for learning to supplement school‐based experiences. This qualitative study examines how high school students from low‐income families in the USA use the SNS, MySpace, for identity formation and informal learning. The analysis revealed that SNSs used outside of school allowed students to formulate and explore various dimensions of their identity and demonstrate twenty‐first century skills; however, students did not perceive a connection between their online activities and learning in classrooms. We discuss how learning with such technologies might be incorporated into the students’ overall learning ecology to reduce educational inequities and how current institutionalized approaches might shift to accommodate such change.

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Authors
Greenhow, C., & Robelia, B.
Affiliations
University of Minnesota (US)
Corresponding author
Greenhow, Christine
ORCID
Venue
Learning, Media and Technology
Publisher
Informa UK Limited
Published
2009-06
Volume
34
Issue
2
Pages
119-140
ISSN
  • 1743-9884 (ISSN-L)
  • 1743-9892
DOI
10.1080/17439880902923580
OpenAlex
W1984192841
Cited by
456
References
66
Citations by year
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FWCI
417.68
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
Learning Media and Technology (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Education › Literacy, Media, and Education
  • Social Sciences › Education › Educational Technology in Learning
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Impact of Technology on Adolescents
Keywords
informal learning, identity construction, social network sites, MySpace, high school students, low-income households, 21st century skills, digital citizenship, technological fluency, educational inequity, school-based learning

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