My Take
Twitter is my number one tool - if I had to pick one tech tool if I'm ever stranded on a desert island, this is it! I love that it's open and widely used so we can connect with anyone across the globe! While some people are concerned about security, I feel that this is a place where educational value outweighs those concerns, and I truly believe that this is a great teaching opportunity to discuss digital citizenship and safety.
How I Use It
All of my students got Twitter accounts and we used them in any number of activities - we would backchannel during videos, connect with experts during career units, share our learning publicly, and publish student work, to name a few.
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Hollie B.
Assistant Superintendent, Instructional Services
December 31, 2015
Engage students inside and outside of the classroom. They are already social, why shouldn't YOU be??
Twitter has strong potential for classroom use. How you set it up depends on your goals. It can be used to enage students outside of the classroom and connect them with content that enriches, supports, and even contradicts what you study and discuss in class, so that discussion can be taken to a whole other level!
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Leah K.
Technology Training/Integration Specialist
Cobb County School District
Marietta, GA
September 4, 2015
Use for AP vocabulary and collaboration!
Overall, I loved using Twitter for collaboration among my students. I also tweeted out reminders and important AP information that I might otherwise have forgotten. The only downside I really had was that Twitter was blocked from our school computers, so keeping up with the tweets on my own was a little more difficult than I had anticipated. I would think that in the future, if Twitter can be more regulated within school districts, it will become even more useful within the classroom.
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Kristen Z.
Teacher
Wexford, PA
April 17, 2015
Best PD for teachers since Pinterest!
I feel like Twitter for my students (elementary) is best used by me as a PD app. I find many great idea via Twitter and can apply them immediately into the classroom setting. This has 100% made me a better more innovative teacher this year after using Twitter more often and connecting with other educators in the area, as well as in the world.
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