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The role Hashtag in professional development and education

As mentioned earlier, Hashtags do have a wide variety of functions and uses that benefit people

and give rise to some movements. In addition to this, some scholars started investigating the role

of Hashtags in professional development and education. For example, Veletsianos (2017)

investigated three cases of different Hashtags in terms of the relationship between participants’

engagement and their professional development. His findings from this case study indicate that

participating in a Hashtag reflects participants’ needs and desires, which are professional in

many times. Therefore, participants’ engagement with a Hashtag helped them develop and gain

some professional knowledge in their fields. Moreover, Alhajaji et al (2020) investigated the role

of games, mind mapping, and Twitter Hashtags as effective tool to help students in a language

course. After teaching students using this strategy, collecting questionnaires, and placing

assessment tests, the authors found that using this strategy, which included teaching through

Twitter Hashtags, was specifically effective in teaching students vocabulary. For the K-12

classrooms, Watson (2020) analyzed eight studies that examined the use of Hashtags in K-12

classrooms. She found that Hashtags empower students’ voices and help them with self-

organization, emerging knowledge, and understanding space beyond place. All in all, even

though the Hashtag phenomenon seem to be more on the other side of where education and

professional development are, there is emerging scholarship that identify new ways in which

Hashtags inform the teaching and development of students and professionals.

References

Veletsianos, G. (2017). Three cases of hashtags used as learning and professional development

environments. TechTrends, 61(3), 284-292.

Alhajaji, B. H., Algmadi, J. S., &amp;amp; Metwally, A. A. (2020). Exploring the Success of GMT

Technique: Games, Mind-Mapping, and Twitter Hashtags in Teaching Vocabulary in EFL

Higher Education Environment. International Journal of Higher Education, 9(3), 290-299.

Watson, E. (2020). # Education: The Potential Impact of Social Media and Hashtag Ideology on

the Classroom. Research in Social Sciences and Technology, 5(2), 40-56.

Feedback from Dr. Vetter
Hello - Thank you for tagging me and for sharing you draft of your planned contributions to the hashtag article.

I have a few recommendations and suggestions, but nothing too major.
 * Retitle the section "Hashtags in professional development and education"
 * Remove the first sentence that sums up previous section. This kind of transition isn't needed in Wikipedia simply because of how the headers work to organize information.
 * Begin with "There is a growing body of research on the role played by hashtags in professional development and education."
 * Go ahead and use the citation tool to place references throughout so I can see how you're doing with that. And replace the in-text citations.
 * The final sentence needs rephrased because it isn't neutral. Get rid of the "All and all" and revise the phrase "even though the Hashtag phenomenon seem to be more on the other side of where education and professional development are." This clause isn't clear and isn't supported with a reference.

Great start overall! Just remember you'll need 5 sources and and minimum 300 words.

DarthVetter (talk) 20:51, 15 March 2021 (UTC)