Teaching with Twitter

Teaching with Twitter is nothing new - the most famous and well-documented example may be Monica Rankin's Twitter Experiment in a large history classroom at UT Dallas in 2009:



But, is tweeting in the classroom really adding something or are we just following the Borg Complex as discussed by Michael Sacasas? Is it just a distraction or are our Millennials actually able to multi-task? Or is tweeting a motivation and a way to turn passive observers into active participants? Consider these three examples:

1. Twitter for Sci-Ed Part 3: To boldly go where no lecturer has gone before
2. Creating scientists in 140 characters
3. Reflections on Teaching with Social Media

Now what? If you must...read these guidelines for live-tweeting in the classroom, Twitter for Sci-Ed Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 includes interesting and useful insights, and Mark Sample offers Practical Advice for Teaching with Twitter and A Framework for Teaching with Twitter over at ProfHacker.

http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/a-framework-for-teaching-with-twitter/26223