K Bret Staudt Willet
Biographic Data
| ID | 6509604 |
|---|---|
| NAME | K Bret Staudt Willet |
| GIVEN NAMES | K Bret Staudt |
| FAMILY NAME | Willet |
| SIGNATURE | WILLET K B S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Michigan State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6984-416X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Ex-Edchat: Historic retrospective of X/Twitter #Edchat
Geography of Computing Graduate Degree Opportunities: Examining the Characteristics of Minority-Serving Institutions
Initial discussions of ChatGPT in education-related subreddits
Generative AI tools, like ChatGPT, have ignited global discussions and debates about potential educational impacts. By examining initial reactions to ChatGPT shared in online spaces, this study aims to deepen understanding of opportunities and concerns related to integrating such tools into education. With the keyword “chatgpt,” we searched 25 education-related subreddits on Reddit and conducted a content analysis of 7,009 posts and comments, ide…
Investigating the impact of AR technologies on geometric learning in primary school: A comparison between marker‐based and markerless AR
Over the past decade, augmented reality (AR) has gained traction in geometric learning for its pedagogical potential. However, research on how learners engage with different AR technologies and when and how to incorporate them has remained largely unexplored. Employing a learning analytics approach, this study investigates the impact of marker‐based and markerless AR technologies on geometric learning and student engagement in primary school clas…
Affinity and anonymity benefitting early career teachers in the r/teachers subreddit
Early career teachers experience numerous challenges during their transition into the profession. Reddit is a social media platform that allows users to gather around shared affinity while remaining anonymous. This study explores how early career teachers participate in the r/Teachers subreddit through posts tagged as “New Teacher” content. Hand-coding of 2,445 posts created in 2021 showed that early career teachers primarily seek information and…
Teachers without borders: Professional learning spanning social media, place, and time
Educators must consider how today’s technology-mediated environments expand our conceptualization of learning contexts and the continuities and tensions between learning and participation in various settings. The Covid-19 pandemic disrupted educational systems worldwide, necessitating emergency remote teaching and coinciding with increased social media use. Such shifts require reconceptualization of learning boundaries in a digital age. This arti…
Balancing’ privacy and open science in the context of Covid-19: A response to Ifenthaler & Schumacher (2016)
Inquiring tweets want to know: Edchat supports for #RemoteTeaching during Covid‐19
Social media use has spiked around the world during the COVID‐19 global pandemic as people reach out for news, information, social connections, and support in their daily lives. Past work on professional learning networks (PLNs) has shown that teachers also use social media to find supports for their teaching and ongoing professional development. This paper offers quantitative analysis of over a half million Twitter #Edchat tweets as well as qual…
A tale of two subreddits: Change and continuity in teaching‐related online spaces
Despite social media’s ubiquity in modern life, research on some topics related to educators’ use of social media for professional purposes remains underdeveloped, such as how use may change over time. This study explores educators’ self‐directed learning through social media by comparing change and continuity in how users contribute, interact and converse in two teaching‐related subreddits, r/Teachers and r/education. More than a million Reddit …
The teachers’ lounge and the debate hall: Anonymous self-directed learning in two teaching-related subreddits
Look Who’s Talking: Using Human Coding to Establish a Machine Learning Approach to Twitter Education Chats
Twitter has become a hub for many different types of educational conversations, denoted by hashtags and organized by a variety of affinities. Researchers have described these educational conversations on Twitter as sites for teacher professional development. Here, we studied #Edchat—one of the oldest and busiest Twitter educational hashtags—to examine the content of contributions for evidence of professional purposes. We collected tweets containi…
Teachers on Reddit? Exploring contributions and interactions in four teaching-related subreddits
The website Reddit has received scant attention from educational researchers despite the presence of numerous teaching-related subreddits that host thousands of threaded conversations. The purpose of this study was to provide an initial comparison of discussions occurring in several different affinity spaces on Reddit. Because of the lack of relevant prior research, there was no baseline for what to expect in Reddit discussions, so all posts and …
Identifying multiple learning spaces within a single teacher-focused Twitter hashtag
Spam and Educators’ Twitter Use: Methodological Challenges and Considerations
Tweet, and We Shall Find: Using Digital Methods to Locate Participants in Educational Hashtags
Tweet, and We Shall Find: Using Digital Methods to Locate Participants in Educational Hashtags
Spam and Educators’ Twitter Use: Methodological Challenges and Considerations
Look Who’s Talking: Using Human Coding to Establish a Machine Learning Approach to Twitter Education Chats
Twitter has become a hub for many different types of educational conversations, denoted by hashtags and organized by a variety of affinities. Researchers have described these educational conversations on Twitter as sites for teacher professional development. Here, we studied #Edchat—one of the oldest and busiest Twitter educational hashtags—to examine the content of contributions for evidence of professional purposes. We collected tweets containi…
Teachers on Reddit? Exploring contributions and interactions in four teaching-related subreddits
The website Reddit has received scant attention from educational researchers despite the presence of numerous teaching-related subreddits that host thousands of threaded conversations. The purpose of this study was to provide an initial comparison of discussions occurring in several different affinity spaces on Reddit. Because of the lack of relevant prior research, there was no baseline for what to expect in Reddit discussions, so all posts and …
Identifying multiple learning spaces within a single teacher-focused Twitter hashtag
Balancing’ privacy and open science in the context of Covid-19: A response to Ifenthaler & Schumacher (2016)
Inquiring tweets want to know: Edchat supports for #RemoteTeaching during Covid‐19
Social media use has spiked around the world during the COVID‐19 global pandemic as people reach out for news, information, social connections, and support in their daily lives. Past work on professional learning networks (PLNs) has shown that teachers also use social media to find supports for their teaching and ongoing professional development. This paper offers quantitative analysis of over a half million Twitter #Edchat tweets as well as qual…
A tale of two subreddits: Change and continuity in teaching‐related online spaces
Despite social media’s ubiquity in modern life, research on some topics related to educators’ use of social media for professional purposes remains underdeveloped, such as how use may change over time. This study explores educators’ self‐directed learning through social media by comparing change and continuity in how users contribute, interact and converse in two teaching‐related subreddits, r/Teachers and r/education. More than a million Reddit …
The teachers’ lounge and the debate hall: Anonymous self-directed learning in two teaching-related subreddits
Teachers without borders: Professional learning spanning social media, place, and time
Educators must consider how today’s technology-mediated environments expand our conceptualization of learning contexts and the continuities and tensions between learning and participation in various settings. The Covid-19 pandemic disrupted educational systems worldwide, necessitating emergency remote teaching and coinciding with increased social media use. Such shifts require reconceptualization of learning boundaries in a digital age. This arti…
Affinity and anonymity benefitting early career teachers in the r/teachers subreddit
Early career teachers experience numerous challenges during their transition into the profession. Reddit is a social media platform that allows users to gather around shared affinity while remaining anonymous. This study explores how early career teachers participate in the r/Teachers subreddit through posts tagged as “New Teacher” content. Hand-coding of 2,445 posts created in 2021 showed that early career teachers primarily seek information and…
Geography of Computing Graduate Degree Opportunities: Examining the Characteristics of Minority-Serving Institutions
Initial discussions of ChatGPT in education-related subreddits
Generative AI tools, like ChatGPT, have ignited global discussions and debates about potential educational impacts. By examining initial reactions to ChatGPT shared in online spaces, this study aims to deepen understanding of opportunities and concerns related to integrating such tools into education. With the keyword “chatgpt,” we searched 25 education-related subreddits on Reddit and conducted a content analysis of 7,009 posts and comments, ide…
Investigating the impact of AR technologies on geometric learning in primary school: A comparison between marker‐based and markerless AR
Over the past decade, augmented reality (AR) has gained traction in geometric learning for its pedagogical potential. However, research on how learners engage with different AR technologies and when and how to incorporate them has remained largely unexplored. Employing a learning analytics approach, this study investigates the impact of marker‐based and markerless AR technologies on geometric learning and student engagement in primary school clas…
Ex-Edchat: Historic retrospective of X/Twitter #Edchat
Computer Science (13 works) · Social media (11 works) · Impact of Technology on Adolescents (10 works) · Psychology (10 works) · World Wide Web (10 works) · Mathematics education (8 works) · Pedagogy (8 works) · Social Media and Politics (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Online and Blended Learning (6 works)