Facebook and mathematics teachers' professional development: Informing our community

Jorryt van Bommel (1) , Yvonne Liljekvist (2, 1)

1 Karlstad University [Sweden]
2 Uppsala University

Nowadays, communication and cooperation on social network sites, such as Facebook, have become common. These kinds of sites are also used within teachers' professional development, both in formal and informal ways, as they create and form new opportunities to communicate and cooperate. In this paper, our aim is to discuss how mathematics teachers' informal participation in social network sites can inform the mathematics education research community.

Mots clés: Professional development; social network sites; Facebook; mathematics teacher

Domaines: Education; Histoire et perspectives sur les mathématiques [math.HO]

Jorryt van Bommel, Yvonne Liljekvist. Facebook and mathematics teachers' professional development: Informing our community. CERME 9 - Ninth Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education, Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Education; ERME, Feb 2015, Prague, Czech Republic. pp.2930-2936. ⟨hal-01289653⟩