The following website is a quick read about using twitter in education. The one valuable piece of information I took away from this article is the way twitter could be a technology support system in classrooms. How many teachers have been in the middle of a lesson and had some type of technical issue. The computer may freeze or the internet disconnected and you are left with a room full of 20 students waiting for you to fix it. Using twitter as a support tool may be something school districts want to look into. http://clifmims.com/blog/archives/187
In the next article see how Professor David Parry engages his students. He found that the twitter assignment lead to students becoming interested in the content they were learning. The students started finding information on the content outside of the class and tweeting their classmates to share the information. http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080319-twitter-breaks-down-barriers-in-the-classroom.html
Please take a look at the articles Yin provided in the comments section of my previous blog. They are extremely helpful and give wonderful examples of how Twitter can be used in education. THANKS Yin!
1 comment:
Ashley,
Tweeting in educaton, good idea! Applying twitter to the instructoin is a creative way for us to use twitter! Twitter would no longer be a communication tool, it is added new and valuable meaning!
Yan SUo
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