Where for art thou Twitter? - Classroom 2.02024-03-29T07:44:12Zhttps://www.classroom20.com/forum/topics/where-for-art-thou-twitter?feed=yes&xn_auth=noOK Adrew,
I'm considering usi…tag:www.classroom20.com,2009-06-07:649749:Comment:3501112009-06-07T14:19:24.212ZDonna Dolanhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/DonnaDolan
OK Adrew,<br />
I'm considering using Twitter as a tool in my classes - Biginning Business Concepts and Digital Desing (page layout and web design). I don't want to become that teacher who is a dinosour because i don't want to use the "new" technology in my technology classes.<br />
Since you have been working with Twitter for a year, how do you suggest i could adapt this for my teaching area. Any guidence would be a help. Plus, what site do you use? Many portals are blocked through my school district.
OK Adrew,<br />
I'm considering using Twitter as a tool in my classes - Biginning Business Concepts and Digital Desing (page layout and web design). I don't want to become that teacher who is a dinosour because i don't want to use the "new" technology in my technology classes.<br />
Since you have been working with Twitter for a year, how do you suggest i could adapt this for my teaching area. Any guidence would be a help. Plus, what site do you use? Many portals are blocked through my school district. My theory on twitter is that…tag:www.classroom20.com,2009-04-21:649749:Comment:3314082009-04-21T15:26:09.437ZAndrew Marcinekhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/AndrewMarcinek
My theory on twitter is that it is information overload. Most of my students don't use twitter on their own because facebook - which has recently been recently updated to reflect twitter - as their constant stream of information. That said, I have run into your question in many of my department meetings and PDs. My objective is never to get students posting redundant information about what they are doing, but taking the framework of twitter and applying it to various content areas in a…
My theory on twitter is that it is information overload. Most of my students don't use twitter on their own because facebook - which has recently been recently updated to reflect twitter - as their constant stream of information. That said, I have run into your question in many of my department meetings and PDs. My objective is never to get students posting redundant information about what they are doing, but taking the framework of twitter and applying it to various content areas in a practical manner.<br />
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The above lessons you can simply accomplish without a computer in the classroom. The concept of twitter is that you tell others what you are doing in a short concise message. Users may only use 140 characters to express their message. I see this as a teaching moment!<br />
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What I want my students to understand is not how to use twitter, but moreover, to imagine that a character from a novel or history is using twitter. What would be on Abraham Lincoln's twitter during the civil war? What would JFK twitter about during the Bay of Pigs? What would Holden Caulfield twitter about in each chapter? I feel twitter has merit in weeding through a tough reading. If anything, students can glean the main points of someone's day from twitter. Furthermore, students can apply this same principle to what they are learning. Consider it a new method for obtaining the main point of a novel or reading.<br />
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Hope this helps!!