Is TikTok the New Google? Preservice Teachers' and Students' Preparation to Navigate Digital and Media Learning Through a Critical Lens (Poster 6)

• In Event: AERA Poster Session Sixteen
  In Poster Session: Emerging Technology

Abstract

As the increase of social media, specifically Tik Tok being used as a vehicle of information sharing, it becomes important to interrogate the development of Critical Digital and Media Literacies throughout the education system. Through this research we explore the ways in which preservice teachers use social media as a learning tool to engage students in interrogating knowledge on social media and other spaces. We utilize self-study in Teacher Education Practices (S-STEP) in a Literacy and Technology course (required by English Education students) to introduce preservice teachers to ways in which they can use social media platforms as pedagogical and learning tool to interrogate knowledge they engage with daily, and transfer those skills to their future students.

Authors

• Brittany Powell, University of Delaware
  Presenting Author

• Kisha M Porcher, University of Delaware
  Presenting Author