My Take
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.
How I Use It
I use Twitter to share student work among my colleagues in my school district. Our staff development coordinator has created a hashtag for all of us use when we are tweeting or retweeting so that others can learn and follow. I use Twitter for PD and to expand my PLN by following many great companies and websites.
More community reviews for Twitter
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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Tracey C.
Raleigh, NC
November 17, 2014
Great way to connect with students & families
Twitter gets a lot of negativity, mostly because it is so public, and I do suggest to my students that THEIR profiles and tweets stay private. It certainly opens up a dialogue in class about digital footprints and responsible social networking. I like to find the things my kids already like and use in their personal lives and use them as learning tools so that students start to see that learning can happen anywhere, anytime--Twitter is great for that.
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