TeachPaperless: Response to a Criticism about Using Twitter in the Classroom - The Diigo Meta page

• 15 Dec 09
  

  Judi Yost

  twitter

  • my students use their feeds as lifelines on quizzes and tests, as a way to share
    links and organize collaborative assignments, as a tool for hashtagging
    collaborative reference bibliographies, and as a collaborative note-taking
    backchannel during lecture and class discussion. We also use Twitterfall as a
    discussion starter and I project our Twitter feed on the wall throughout all of
    our classes to remind students about the global ramifications of what we are
    doing by learning together in a classroom.
    
  • the key is that the use of the social media needs to be fully integrated into
    the teaching -- specifically for the purpose of teaching the content and skills
    of the course
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  • • It adds another, and somewhat more authentic, layer to the conversation. A layer
      which brings in students who may not communicate other ways, and which lets me,
      as the instructor, know my class's needs. The stream stays surprisingly on
      target
    • 
      But this all presumes that I am interested in what my students are thinking.
      And that I assume that my students are interested in each others' thoughts. If I
      was teaching in a one-way mode, Twitter, et al, would seem worthless.
      
    • http://tweetboard.com/alpha/
      
    • I teach 5th graders and since I began using Twitter in my class I've seen more
      eager learners than I've seen in years. My 5th graders are researching and
      responding on their own and contributing meaningful to classroom discussions.
      They are also reminding each other of assignments and test.
• 14 Nov 09
  

  Cary H

  twitter

• 06 Nov 09
  

  Carmen Hartzell

  You could take out the word Twitter and insert many other technologies and this statement would still be true.

  twitter

  • If your students aren't able to handle using Twitter like this, then you don't have a problem with Twitter; you have a problem with classroom management.
• 04 Nov 09
  

  Phil Taylor

  twitter classroom teachpaperless resources

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  Isabelle Jones

  twitter teaching training resources social_media

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  Michèle Drechsler

  twitter

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  Tobías Feijoo

  educación twitter

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  Mario A Núñez

  twitter_academico

• 03 Nov 09
  

  Maggie Verster

  twitter classroom teaching school2.0 education

  • After all, kids can write all kinds of nonsense on a sheet of paper and spread it around school, as well; they've been doing that for generations. Yet, I don't see too many teachers wondering whether we should allow them to write.
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  Gretchen Hazlin

  twitter teachertools web2.0 21s

• 02 Nov 09
  

  Steve Ransom

  blog post on defending Twitter's usefulness in the classroom.

  twitter about rationale students teaching classroom integration

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  Michelle DeSilva

  resources web2.0 Teaching twitter edu_tech. education 21st century teaching Twitter and Education Twitter and Teaching tools presentations twittertools classroom

  • If your students aren't able to handle using Twitter like this, then you don't have a problem with Twitter; you have a problem with classroom management.
  • incorporating ongoing discussions of digital citizenship into your lessons.

    • 

      Michelle DeSilva on 2009-11-02

      I agree with this and hope that schools begin teaching more lessons on digital citizenship as well as digital literacy. We taught both at the private school I was at last year but have noticed that my students this year in the public school are lacking in those skills.
• 20 Jul 09
  

  Bill Derry

  Social Media is not a monolith.
  
  It doesn't tell you what to do. There are no rules.
  
  There are countless ways to use Twitter; the key is that the use of the social media needs to be fully integrated into the teaching -- specifically for the purpose of teaching the content and skills of the course. So, the trick is to figure out how to do that for your course. And there's a good chance that a PLN model isn't gonna work for your kids.
  
  As for WHY it's important for kids to take part in authentic social media (rather than the walled garden variety), I wrote a post yesterday where I tried to sort of lay out the framework of what we're looking at on the future grid of 21st century education. It's my attempt to argue what authenticity in education means now and for the future, and I'd welcome any criticism of it.
  
  Anyway, Social Media is what you make it. It's yours to tinker with. So, use your imagination.

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• 15 Jul 09
  

  Terry Elliott

  twitter classroom

• 09 Jul 09
  

  Tim Sparacino

  twitter

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  Sharon Elin

  TeachPaperless:

  twitter twitter_classroom

• 08 Jul 09
  

  Roger Zuidema

  twitter classroom education trends

  • As I've described before, my students use their feeds as lifelines on quizzes and tests, as a way to share links and organize collaborative assignments, as a tool for hashtagging collaborative reference bibliographies, and as a collaborative note-taking backchannel during lecture and class discussion. We also use Twitterfall as a discussion starter and I project our Twitter feed on the wall throughout all of our classes to remind students about the global ramifications of what we are doing by learning together in a classroom.
  • As for worries about how kids might abuse it? I really wouldn't worry about that so much, so long as you are incorporating ongoing discussions of digital citizenship into your lessons. After all, kids can write all kinds of nonsense on a sheet of paper and spread it around school, as well; they've been doing that for generations. Yet, I don't see too many teachers wondering whether we should allow them to write.
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  Sam Harrelson

  Well worded response to critics of Twitter usage with students.

  twitter technology teaching classroom management

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  Michelle DeSilva on 2009-11-02
  I agree with this and hope that schools begin teaching more lessons on digital citizenship as well as digital literacy. We taught both at the private school I was at last year but have noticed that my students this year in the public school are lacking in those skills.

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