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Twitter holds much promise as a learning tool. Students of prograssively younger ages will have been oriented with social media sites from early in their development. Thus, teaching them through these sites communicates info through a framing with which they're familiar. #525W19
I will begin a thread of my own ideas of how to incorporate Twitter into schooling. In accordance with Twitter's policy, users must be 13 years or older. So junior high and up would be the most suitable age range. #525W19
The most general example for using Twitter as a classroom tool would be a roundtable-type discussion using hashtags, as we're doing now, except with unique hashtags for each discussion. I could see this working well in English classes, when specific assigned book chapters #525W19
I was thinking that Twitter threads would work well for book reports, at least for English classes in the 7th-10th grade range. Having a student recount what they read and their thoughts on it using a social media format would certainly be interesting #525W19
Another idea, but for a broader range (7th grade & up) for either Science or Social Studies classes, would be having them tweet opinions, photos, and video to a teacher-created hashtag for a field trip. Of course they'd need a set limit, and rules for appropriate content. #525W19
For a 9th-12th grade English class, roleplaying scenes from Shakespearian plays using modern diction, such as a conversation or confrontation, but using the same language (including visual) used over Twitter. This could make the scenarios more fun to convey to students #525W19
Now, suggestions for teachers. Tracking education-related keywords and tags, as well as following professional figures and organizations to follow are great places to start. This will make keeping up with current events and issues affecting the education field much easier #525W19
And of course, sharing your own thoughts through threads or even brief tweets--especially in a hashtag for more people to see--will allow you to engage with both fellow teachers and students #525W19
I'll close out this thread with an extremely useful tool: the @threadreaderapp, a bot that converts tweet threads to long-form, more readable text; just @ the bot on the thread you want to convert. I've linked the instructional tweet below #525W19
Anyway, I made this thread a bit too long and perhaps cluttered the class hashtag up a bit, but I hope everyone's enjoyed it. Happy tweeting everyone! #525W19
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