Comments on: Twitter in the classroom http://jovanmiles.net/2009/06/05/twitter-in-the-classroom/ iTeach Tue, 07 Sep 2010 06:55:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Ms. Jones http://jovanmiles.net/2009/06/05/twitter-in-the-classroom/comment-page-1/#comment-383 Ms. Jones Wed, 10 Jun 2009 22:53:51 +0000 http://jovanmiles.net/?p=465#comment-383 One of the biggest problems I face in the classroom is "piggy-backing". I tell me student all the time how important it is to choose your own ideas/thoughts/answers. I'm not totally sure if twitter is a great educational device, but some form of blogging could help continue educational awareness outside the classroom. I also think the use of twitter can have a double side effect. I think that student MAY voice their own opinions more frequently on a blog or webpage do to the fact that in some form they are shielded from embarrassment and ridicule. Their online/nicknames may make them feel like their anonymous or even animated. I could also handicap them within their writing & reading skills. The American language is already difficult enough with its rules and exceptions. In addition to the many different dialogs, slang, formal, informal, text language. Students tend to practice language use wrong and it continues to hinder their abilities to read, write, and speak correctly. . One of the biggest problems I face in the classroom is “piggy-backing”. I tell me student all the time how important it is to choose your own ideas/thoughts/answers. I’m not totally sure if twitter is a great educational device, but some form of blogging could help continue educational awareness outside the classroom.
I also think the use of twitter can have a double side effect. I think that student MAY voice their own opinions more frequently on a blog or webpage do to the fact that in some form they are shielded from embarrassment and ridicule. Their online/nicknames may make them feel like their anonymous or even animated.
I could also handicap them within their writing & reading skills. The American language is already difficult enough with its rules and exceptions. In addition to the many different dialogs, slang, formal, informal, text language. Students tend to practice language use wrong and it continues to hinder their abilities to read, write, and speak correctly.

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]]> By: Arthur http://jovanmiles.net/2009/06/05/twitter-in-the-classroom/comment-page-1/#comment-368 Arthur Fri, 05 Jun 2009 17:06:50 +0000 http://jovanmiles.net/?p=465#comment-368 If you use this medium in order to continue sidebar conversations and debates, I think it would really help out in the classroom, there are always good conversation squelched by the time factor in the classroom, but I think it should be a tool used outside of the classroom to continue conversation not to initiate conversation during class. If you use this medium in order to continue sidebar conversations and debates, I think it would really help out in the classroom, there are always good conversation squelched by the time factor in the classroom, but I think it should be a tool used outside of the classroom to continue conversation not to initiate conversation during class.

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