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Adoption Assessment ToolTwitter as Learning Tool -- Levels of Educational Use
Twitter is defined in a course context as a light-weight micro blogging platform used to support micro interactions and socialnetworking in the service of student community building, discussions, tracking & reporting, metacognition and a variety of spontaneous learning activities.
[As David Pogue said, “Twitter is whatever you make of it.”]
ActivePassive
In-class Back Channel forDiscussion
Used to support ad hoc classdiscussions or lecture commenting(use hashtags to categorize real-time, on-task chatter/texting(M.Sample)Good for monitoring key points in adiscussion, collating viewpoints
Outside of Class Discussions
Used to collate classroom views
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Setup topics with separatetwitter accounts or hashtags
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Students initiate and/ or followtopics and participate indiscussion per instructorprotocols asynchronously.Good for community building,discussions, assignments
Open question/topical discussion format1.Use semi-anonymous Twitter streamof comments to lead discussions(requires TweetDeck screen refresh)2.Twitter aggregates and collatesstudent responses to separatewebpage3.End of class large group processing4.Optional step to analyze aggregatedcontent (could be used as makeupassignment for missed class)Good for engaging all students indiscussions in large lecture classes(monitoring key points, collatingviewpoints)
Lightly Structured Activities(low threshold)
Follow some instruction and Tweetabout it
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gather course feedback
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ambient office hours
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poll class (e.g., identify anobject (D.Cohen)
Tracking Activities
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find and follow instructor,experts, topics
Feedback Activities
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language or writing practice
Metacognition/Self-regulation
Student activity to share resources andreport on self learning events like difficulttopics, interesting applications etc.-Muddiest point-One thing I learned most (S.Klein)Institutional communicationchannel (outreach, alerts etc.)Instructor communication channel(e.g., announcements, reminders)Broadcast course links and shareresources
Prepared by Rick Reo on behalf of DoIT/LSS, 9/09
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