ABSTRACT
This chapter explores a specific example of social media use with first-year undergraduate-degree students. Advances in digital technologies, including social media, are changing the ways in which people communicate, collaborate and learn. Scholars have suggested that social media could improve teaching and learning in higher education, while also cautioning about its use. The module Youth Sport aimed to confront and challenge students' core beliefs and prior knowledge about coaching youth sport. While Twitter was used on a daily and weekly basis, Google Hangouts was used to support students' learning on a monthly basis. The Spanish Olympic Committee YouTube channel was used to access videos that related to youth athletes. The chapter concludes that the incorporation of social media into educational processes must be based on sound pedagogical principles, and that the construction of a student-centred environment is pivotal to success.
