MCS%20Twitter%20For%20Teachers. Session 1 Room 1. Practical Advice for Teaching with Twitter. Last week I introduced a pedagogical framework for using Twitter in your teaching, organized along two axes: monologic to dialogic and passive to active.
These high-falutin terms are fine for a theoretical matrix, but what about the real life implementation of Twitter in and outside of your classroom? How do you actually do it? I'm going to leave behind the pedagogy (mostly) in this post, and instead offer some practical advice for teaching with Twitter. I'll cover six aspects of Twitter integration where it pays to plan ahead of time (i.e. sometime last week): organization, access, frequency, substance, archiving, and assessment. The Teacher's Guide To Twitter. Twitter has proven itself to be an indispensable tool for educators around the globe.
Whatever skill level you may be, Twitter is downright fun and worth your time. So here’s a useful guide that we curated from Edudemic’s archives in an effort to put something together that was a bit easier to read than random blog posts. We hope you enjoy and will be regularly adding to this guide so feel free to leave your ideas down in the comments or by, what else, tweeting us @edudemic anytime! Our Biggest Twitter Tips For Teachers For many teachers making a foray into the edtech world, Twitter is an excellent tool for consuming and learning. Many are also harnessing Twitter as a part of their PLN (personal learning network) to connect, share, and network. Check out our biggest Twitter tips for teachers below! Create, Don’t Just Consume. Twitter in the Classroom. As educators, we are preparing students to succeed in the real world.
That’s why it’s imperative for students to be taught not only the ‘fun’ parts of social media, but how to be responsible. Prior to integrating social media in the classroom, it’s crucial to understand both its power and limitations. In two previous blogs we discussed the advantages for using Twitter to create a strong network and how to leverage your PLN with hashtags. Once educators understand the power of Twitter for their own professional needs, the next step is to think about how it could be best utilized in the classroom. The following video (created by the University of Minnesota) showcases students from Roosevelt High School who are being engaged via social media.
This is just one example for how social media can be used to increase student interest and keep parents informed. Announcements. 50 Ways to Use Twitter in the Classroom. Many critics of Twitter believe that the 140-character microblog offered by the ubiquitous social network can do little for the education industry. They are wrong. K-12 teachers have taken advantage of Twitter’s format to keep their classes engaged and up-to-date on the latest technologies. The following projects provide you and your students with 50 ways to Twitter in the classroom to create important and lasting lessons. 1.
Tweet about upcoming due dates or assignments. One of the simplest ways that teachers can use Twitter in the classroom involves setting up a feed dedicated exclusively to due dates, tests or quizzes. 2. Subscribe to different mainstream and independent news feeds with different biases as a way to compare and contrast how different perspectives interpret current events and issues.
Social media, Duck Dynasty's Jase Robertson and my class. After a retweet from Duck Dynasty’s Jase Robertson, the kids at my school were pretty pumped.
What, exactly, does that mean educationally? Well, a lot. I’ve been pretty slow to incorporate social media in my classroom. This week, however, may be the kick-start I need to jump in. Here’s why: This is the week of the homecoming football game at my school in west-central Indiana. Tuesday was “Duck Dynasty Day.” The students really went over the top to dress up in camouflage, Duck Dynasty t-shirts and beards for this one.
It just happened that we were studying family relationship vocabulary in Spanish 1, so it only made sense that we chart out the Robertson family tree and label the family relationships in Spanish. Cool activity on a fun day, right? It’s just starting to get interesting. I said, “We should put this on Twitter and tag some of the guys on Duck Dynasty to see if we can get retweeted.” So we did. The kids went nuts. Tweet, Tweet, Go the Kindergartners. “Tweet, tweet, tweet!”
Chirped the kindergartners in Jennifer Aaron's class last week, as they settled onto the multicolored carpet and began to consider what they would like to send out into the Twitter universe that day. Three days a week, as the school day draws to a close, the children in Ms. Aaron's class sit down to compose a message about what they have been doing all day. They then send it out to their parents and relatives through Twitter, the stamping grounds of celebrities and politicians, where few kindergartners have been known to venture. Ms. First, Ms. "We had to add more stickers," began Lucy, who did not elaborate, so Ms. "We learned about time! " The memories of the preceding seven hours pile up.
"There were no lame reflections," said another student, referring to the end-of-day pieces all the students write, which on this particular day were of exemplary quality. 60 Ways To Use Twitter In The Classroom By Category. Social media offers some great opportunities for learning in the classroom, bringing together the ability to collaborate, access worldwide resources, and find new and interesting ways to communicate in one easily accessible place.
Teachers around the world have found innovative ways to use Twitter as a teaching tool (including TeachThought’s favorite), and we’ve shared many of these great ideas here with you. Read on, and we’ll explore 60 inspiring ways that teachers and students can put Twitter to work in the classroom. Communication Twitter makes staying in touch and sharing announcements super simple and even fun. These ideas offer a great way to put the tool to good use. Organization.