Although use of social media by students has been shown to be nearly ubiquitous, manyK-12 school systems have banned its use on their campuses or use between their teachers andstudents. In contrast, many collegiate faculty have utilized social media in their teaching. Socialmedia has been shown to assist faculty in engaging with students, helping students engage withcontent outside of class and sound implementation into the curriculum has been show to havepositive educational impacts. Data from a sample of two thousand and fifty-six college studentsacross two land-grant institutions is compared between pre-service teachers and their collegiatepeers. Pre-service teachers reported using Twitter in the curriculum more, were more inspired bythe use of social media use by their faculty, used social media more on their own for educationalpurposes and had a stronger belief that social media can be used for educationally relevantpurposes than their collegiate peers.
The Changing Educational Role of Entomologists in Land-Grant Institutions
