Twitter is more than just for following celebrities. It can be used to promote your personal business, to connect with friends and family, or to see what is going on in the world. Moreover, it can be used in the classroom.
Here are my top 10 favorite ways to use Twitter in the classroom 1. Class Chat - Create a unique hashtag so that your class can have a running forum to discuss projects, concepts, and ideas. 2. Class Assignments - Have your students tweet and hashtag authentic experiences for an assignment using a class hashtag. For example: Have your students find geometric shapes in the real world for a Geometry assignment and tweet pictures with their understanding and class hashtag. Here's an example: #cavgeom 3. Online Tutorials - Host a Twitter chat about a topic and have your students ask questions with the unique class hashtag and have yourself and other students answer questions and link resources, videos, etc. 4. Projects - Create a unique hashtag for a project and have students share projects on Twitter and hashtag them with the project hashtag. 5. Go Live - Tweet live projects, experiments, field trips and more to have parents keep up with what your students are doing. 6. Role Play - Have your students tweet as characters from a story they're reading in your ELA class, a Historical figure in your History class, etc and create a unique hashtag to collect all of the tweets in one place! 7. Bulletin Board - Tweet updates about your class, assignments, tests, projects, etc so that your students and parents can stay up to date. 8. Backchannel - Have your students tweet questions and comments about a lecture. This can be used for Socratic Seminar. 9. Creative Writing - Begin a story and hashtag it. Then have each of your students finish the story and use the same hashtag. They'll be able to see multiple endings and variations of the story! 10. Connecting with Primary Sources - Your students can follow people that are important to science, history, math, ELA, etc. They can learn from them as well as connect with them. Twitter allows students to have a voice and a connection with the outside world. It allows for connections between what they're learning and themselves. It's a great way for your students to exchange ideas and learn in a creative way.
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