Comments on: Promoting Twitteracy in the Classroom

By: Getting revision tips and key facts via text messages at Medicine through time

Getting revision tips and key facts via text messages at Medicine through time — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 23:22:23 +0000

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By: lichtenwald

lichtenwald — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 19:13:52 +0000

Hey Damien, I like your ideas. You may be interested in this wiki we’re developing, feel free to jump on board and share your thoughts. I have added a link to your post.

http://web20primer.wetpaint.com/page/Twitter+in+the+Classroom

By: pattyoflynn

pattyoflynn — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 13:58:28 +0000

I liked Debra Hamel’s use of Twitter. I a math classroom, I think I might pose an interesting problem, puzzle, or “what if” question.

By: Damian

Damian — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 01:58:47 +0000

@Paul – I am always mindful of my students without access, and while there aren’t many where I teach, I am always trying to think of alternate ways of providing them access to the technology. I am lucky in that my school has much to offer students, and I haven’t (yet) run across a gap I couldn’t figure out a way to bridge.

I completely agree that we can’t disadvantage these students, and I hope that no teacher ever would. The best we can do in those situations is provide access at school, perhaps after hours (e.g. immediately after school).

That gets me thinking… if lack of access in the community is a widespread enough problem, I wonder what role the school could play in providing that access on an evening/weekend basis? And perhaps not only access, but instruction as well, perhaps in an adult-learning model?

I know, if only funds were endless… but I’d be surprised if it wasn’t being done somewhere, this model of school-as-community Internet provider?

Thanks for raising that important point. Hope to see you post again here!

By: Paul Harrington

Paul Harrington — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 10:29:56 +0000

As a regular user of Twitter I am with you in advocating its use – we have to be cautious though with the digital divide that we don’t further disadvantage those without access to the technology outside school – a difficult nut to crack. Great Post.
Paul Harrington

By: Educational Technology and Life » Blog Archive » Another Attempt To Explain Twitter

Thu, 09 Aug 2007 14:24:46 +0000

[...] Here’s a particularly recent post about Twitter in the classroom, or as the author calls it, Promoting Twitteracy in the Classroom : Apace of Change (Via Dean [...]

By: jeffreygenehk

jeffreygenehk — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 11:58:07 +0000

here’s an expansion for #4 – assign a random city in the world and give a set amount of time for students to make as many new twitter friends who live in that city.

this one i think would be the one in which your caveat about online safety is most important. i would want to keep very close tabs on this project if i were working with younger students.

love all the ideas, especially the first – my school is still waffling about what online management system to use, so in the meantime teachers still have zero web pages (and we’re even doing good old paper and pencil attendance). twitter is something that exploded after i left the states, so i don’t even have an account…