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clever educators are using it to enrich their classrooms and even forge informal professional networks.
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It may be particularly attractive to newer teachers, who are often in search of mentoring and coaching and are likely more comfortable being part of online communities.
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Amy WTwitter for teaching
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Dr. "TKA" Kulla-AbbottTweetee can help your teaching:)
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Devery RodgersThis is an opinion article about the benefits of tweeting in the classroom.
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Nancy BlairBenefits of tweeting for teachers.
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It may be particularly attractive to newer teachers, who are often in search of
mentoring and coaching and are likely more comfortable being part of online
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"Blogging didn't really become that widespread among teachers," says O'Neal,
"because, as anyone who has blogged will tell you -- it takes a lot of time and
effort, no matter how long you've been doing it. Twitter can provide many of the
same benefits as other social media but much, much faster."
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"Twitter," Bergeson says, "is like the ticker at the bottom of CNN -- only a
ticker populated with information about those people or things you care about,
want to learn from, or want to know about."
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By using Twitter's direct message (private message) feature or the @reply function to publicly reply to another's tweet, explains Bergeson, "I am able to learn what my counterparts are working on, what is working, what is not working."
Inside the classroom, Twitter can be used to review lessons and remind students what is going to be covered in class that day or the next. Teachers say tweeting a few quick review questions and some good Web sites add depth to their lessons. In turn, students can tweet their own questions and observations.
"Twitter is a great way to keep your students thinking after class," says Chris O'Neal, an instructional technology coordinator in Charlottesville, VA. "You can tweet a quick provocative question about a social studies lesson, for example, that will keep their brains active."
But what about the much-ballyhooed decline of the American attention span? Isn't Twitter just encouraging students to absorb nothing more than superficial, quick bytes of information? Maybe, but educators are finding ways to use Twitter for just the opposite, helping students crystallize thoughts, focus attention, and make connections that weren't possible a few years ago.
Teachers like George Mayo in Maryland are enthusiastically employing Twitter to facilitate discussion and collaboration between students in their classrooms and their counterparts in different countries.
Mayo, an eighth-grade English teacher at Silver Spring International Middle School, used Twitter as a platform for a collaborative story written by his students. Using one Twitter account called Many Voices, Mayo invited his students, and students around the world, to add a sentence or two to an ongoing story through Tweets. Soon after, more than 100 students in six different countries had contributed.
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Anne BubnicBefore you write off Twitter as just the latest social media "fad," take a look at how some clever educators are using it to enrich their classrooms and even forge informal professional networks.
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Will Richardson"But before you write off Twitter as just the latest social media "fad," take a look at how some clever educators are using it to enrich their classrooms and even forge informal professional networks. (As with any new technology, expecially social networks, educators should first find out if their school or district has a policy or guidelines on Twitter before proceeding.) "
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Anita PaqueTwitter in the Classroom
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Rob ReynoldsNEA addresses the use of twitter by teachers
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