Artículo de revista
Exploring hashtags collaboratively to facilitate learning and knowledge construction
Autor
Zurita Alarcón, Gustavo
Baloian Tataryan, Nelson
Jerez, Óscar
Institución
Resumen
In the era of mobile learning and digital native
students, concepts like seamless learning, situated learning and
rhizomatic learning gain importance as the current technology
is able to support them by developing new kinds of applications
for mobile devices. At the same time, social network platforms
like Twitter are also being studied as a way to boost
communication supporting collaborative knowledge
construction since they are available everywhere and students
are familiar with their use. This paper highlights an experience
in which a mobile application called FeedbackApp was
developed and used for these purposes. The main
characteristic of this application is that it uses various ways to
explore the information generated while searching and sharing
information and discussing the learning topics, using concept
maps, geographical maps and text lists. A preliminary
experience shows that this application might encourage
students to be more participative in discussions and exchange
of ideas.