EĞİTİM VE ÖĞRETİM FAALİYETLERİNDE SOSYAL MEDYA PLATFORMLARININ KULLANILMASI: HASHTAG İNCELEMESİ

Year 2022, Volume: 12 Issue: 3, 643 - 654, 01.07.2022

Erdem Koç

Abstract

Çevrimiçi öğrenmeye artan ilgi ile birlikte, yeni eğitim anlayışı öğrencileri eş zamansız bilgi içeriklerine dâhil etmenin yollarını aramaktadır. Sosyal medya platformlarına bağlanmak için hashtag kullanımıyla ilgili deneyimler üzerine inşa edilen bu çalışmanın amacı, hashtag kullanımının çevrimiçi tartışmalarda öğrenci katılımı üzerindeki etkisini araştırmaktır. Bu karma yöntem çalışmasında, öğrencilerin hashtagleri hangi bağlamda kullandıkları, hashtaglerin eğitim süreçlerine dâhil edilmesinin öğrencilerin gelişimine katkı sağlayıp sağlayamayacağı ve hashtaglerin bir öğrenme topluluğu oluşturmayı destekleyip destekleyemeyeceği ortaya koyulamaya çalışılmıştır. Bu doğrultuda rastgele seçilen gönüllü 12.Sınıfında öğrenim gören 36 öğrenciyle yüz yüze görüşme sağlanmıştır. Öğrenci etkileşimlerini değerlendirmek için nicel ölçümler toplanmış ve analiz edilmiştir. Öğrencilerin hashtag kullanım yöntemlerini anlamak ve birbirleriyle olan etkileşimlerini belirlemek için gözlem yapılmıştır. Elde edilen veriler hakkındaki içerik analizi, nitel görüşmelerden elde edilen bilgileri içeren bir sistematikle objektif olarak incelenmiştir. Kodlama şeması vasıtasıyla kullanılan hashtagler tümevarım ve tümdengelim yaklaşımı kullanılarak geliştirilmiştir. Hashtag'ler kategorize edilirken güvenilirlik derecesi hesaplanmıştır. Çalışmanın sonucuna bakıldığında, sosyal medya çevrimiçi platformlarından olan hashtaglerin eğitim faaliyetlerine dahil edildiğinde öğrencilerde güçlü bir motivasyon oluştuğu, öğrenme topluluğundaki diğer bireylerle eş zamanlı ve eş zamansız iletişim kurabilmelerine katkı sağladığı, öğrencilerin fikirlerini özgürce ifade edebilme ortamı oluşturması gibi olumlu yönlere sahip olduğundan desteklenmesi gereken bir uygulama olduğu sonucuna ulaşılmıştır.

Keywords

Sosyal medya, öğrenme ortamları, çevrimiçi öğrenme, etiketleme

USING SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS IN EDUCATIONAL AND EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES: A HASHTAG REVIEW

Abstract

With the growing interest in online learning, the new understanding of education seeks ways to involve students in asynchronous knowledge content. Building on experiences with using hashtags to connect to social media platforms, the aim of this study is to explore the impact of hashtag use on student engagement in online discussions. In this mixed method study, it has been tried to reveal in which context students use hashtags, whether including hashtags in educational processes can contribute to the development of students and whether hashtags can support creating a learning community. For doing this, 36 randomly selected volunteer students studying in the 12th grade were conducted for face to face interviews. Quantitative measures were collected and analyzed to assess student interactions. Observations were made to understand the students' hashtag usage methods and to determine their interactions with each other. The content analysis about the obtained data was examined objectively with a systematic including the information obtained from the qualitative interviews. The hashtags used through the coding scheme were developed using the inductive and deductive approach. While the hashtags were categorized, the degree of reliability was calculated. Considering the results of the study, hashtags give strong motivation to students in terms of educational activities and hashtags contributes to the ability to communicate synchronously and asynchronously with other individuals in the learning community. So, It has been concluded that hashtag is an application that should be supported since it has positive aspects such as creating an environment for students to express their ideas freely

Keywords

Social media, learning environments, online learning, tagging

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