Dive Summary:
- In an article for Education Technology Solutions, Mike Reading outlines the different attitudes on integrating social media into the classroom and gives advice on how Twitter can be used without violating the proper teacher-student relationship.
- Reading identifies the main educational uses of Twitter as communicating with students and building a professional learning network.
- Important in using Twitter effectively is the hash tag, allowing students to organize their teacher's tweets and educators to share information and resources with each other.
From the article:
When considering whether social media and, in this case, Twitter, is useful in the classroom, I think it helps to understand that social media is really no different from any other technology. There will always be early adopters who are quick to embrace new technology and test its usefulness in the educational context. ...
