Shy students should be able to tweet their teacher in class, study finds | Information, Gadgets, Mobile Phones News & Reviews. THERE could soon be a whole lot more twits in our school classrooms. New research from Southern Cross University has found strong benefits for the use of Twitter by students too embarrassed or uncomfortable to ask teachers questions in the time-honoured raised-hand method. Southern Cross business lecturer Jeremy Novak, along with Central Queensland University's Dr Michael Cowling, studied the use of Twitter among university students as a method for asking questions and gaining feedback without having to stand the stares and scrutiny of fellow students.
The positive feedback from students, particularly international students, has convinced the research team the use of Twitter technology could also be embraced by classrooms at high school and even primary school level. "Twitter is another exciting teaching aide that is highly under-utilised by lecturers and teachers in the education sector,'' Mr Novak said. 5 Best Practices For Educators On Facebook. Facebook's roots may be planted in college campuses, but classrooms have not welcomed the social network as eagerly as their students have. Once a Harvard startup open only to college students, Facebook has been pegged as a waste of time, a classroom disruption and a bad habit that is correlated with low grades.
Missouri even went so far as to ban Facebook and other social media relationships between teachers and students (the law was later repealed). But teachers such as Reynol Junco — who recently published a study that shows certain types of Facebook use are correlated with higher GPAs — are beginning to look at ways that they can use Facebook to their advantage. "Students are already very familiar with the platform and spend a lot of time on the site," Junco says. Here are tips from Junco and other teachers on how to effectively use Facebook in the classroom. 1. Use Facebook With a Focus 2. Fortunately, you don't have to be Facebook friends to interact on Facebook. 3. 4. Dr. 5. Smartphones and handheld computers: the new battleground in UK schools. Children's learning could "hugely improve" if all pupils were given smartphones to use in the classroom, technology experts say but, instead, the UK risks falling behind because "the government doesn't seem that interested in it".
Research shows that in many areas, the majority of pupils own a smartphone, but many schools ban the devices and the National Association of Head Teachers says they hold "potential for mischief and distraction". Earlier this year, a secondary school in Kent became the first in the country to equip each of its 1,400 pupils with an Apple iPad tablet computer. Longfield academy near Dartford said the iPads would help pupils' learning. Honywood community school in Coggeshall, near Colchester in Essex, has also invested in 1,200 iPads for its pupils.
Some schools, such as the Oldershaw academy in Wallasey on Merseyside, have created their own app so parents can check, via their mobiles, what homework their children have been set. 5 Unique Uses of Twitter in the Classroom. Social media has found a prominent place in the college classroom. In fact, nearly 80 percent of faculty members are using social media in some way, according to a recent survey of nearly 2,000 college faculty by the Babson Survey Research Group published in April.
While some platforms, such as YouTube, have been widely accepted in the classroom, Twitter has been slower to catch on as a teaching tool. In the same survey, only 2 percent of professors reported using the microblogging site—which limits posts to 140 characters—in class. Jim Newman, a Ph.D. student and instructor at Northern Illinois University, says that he uses Twitter not as a news source for his class but as a bulletin board.
"[Twitter] is not something I'm going to be using to chat [with students]," Newman says. Where some college instructors use the platform to update students on classroom logistics, it offers others an opportunity for community learning. 1. 2. 3. "It was really impressive what they did," Wilson says. 4. Colleges Get Mixed Reviews When Using Twitter for Customer Service. At 10:58 a.m. on October 3, Lindenwood University junior Katherine Anderson notified the university's official Twitter handle about a car crash on campus, and said a professor almost hit her car. "Do something about the driving on campus," she Tweeted in all caps.
Lindenwood's response from @LindenwoodU came five-and-a-half hours later: "Specific suggestions for improvement are always welcome. " Chelsy McInnis, also a junior at Lindenwood, says the university looked her friend Anderson up in the directory and called her cell phone—rather than sending a direct message on Twitter. That partly explains why McInnis says the school is ignoring its student body on social media, where it responds only to "positive messages or the occasional nonthreatening question. " "Lindenwood is missing out on a great opportunity to recruit new students by ignoring the ones they're attempting to retain," says McInnis, who writes the handle @chelsysayshi.
[See five unique ways to use Twitter in the classroom.] Q. and A. | How Facebook Use Correlates With Student Outcomes. Boris PopkoffReynol Junco. Is Facebook a worthless waste of time for students? Does it steal time and energy that they would otherwise spend on homework? Is it focusing their attention on trivia, facilitating unhealthy interactions with peers and teachers, and turning their minds to jelly? Many parents and teachers certainly feel this way. For more than a decade, Reynol Junco, a social media scholar and a professor at Lock Haven University, has focused his research on the effects of technology on students. One of Professor Junco’s latest studies, “The Relationship Between Frequency of Facebook Use, Participation in Facebook Activities and Student Engagement” (PDF), published in the journal Computers & Education, shows that certain Facebook activities correlate with specific real-life behaviors among college students, like engagement in extra-curricular activities.
What were the major findings of the study? Did anything you found surprise you? Have questions for Professor Junco? Siphoning the Fumes of Teen Culture: How to Co-opt Students’ Favorite Social Media Tools. In 1763, a royal decree was issued from Great Britain to the North American colonists: Do not? Do not!? Expand west of the Appalachian Mountains. The colonists resented the proclamation, inferring that the British were trying to contain them along the Atlantic Seaboard where control and taxation could be more easily imposed. The King believed his proclamation to be motivated by good intentions, protecting colonists from instigating any more costly wars with Native Americans, for one. But nothing could stop the westward expansion fever. Frontiersmen had already plundered the fish-rich rivers and fertile lands of the west, unspoiled by settlements and tobacco-ruined soil.
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