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So, here’s a question, what’s the point of twittering in the classroom? How does twittering help students master both knowledge and skills about important content?
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The point of Twittering is in the classroom is doing so beyond the classroom. Now that they have leaned the technology in the classroom, they are using the technology on their own time. My intent is to extend classroom discussion–literature in particular. Increased discussion of literature is likely to increase reading comprehension. I also plan to use it for collaboration with other remote Adirondack fifth grades. Our classes are rather small, usually fewer than a dozen, and students benefit from communication and collaboration with a larger group of students.
Even though some of the discussion is off topic, time spent reading and writing posts comes from their free time (in which most would be watching TV or playing video games). I have also observed that reluctant writers are motivated to write more through this medium. It also models the appropriate use of technologies that they will probably utilize in the future anyway
As far as mastery of knowledge of important content (as opposed to skills) goes, I’d have to say that other media may be better suited (wikis come to mind–something I plan to be working with soon as well), although this remains to be seen. This is certainly an experiment.
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