Twitter

When reading about twitter it made me realize how popular it has become not only among kids my age but older and younger people as well. It is a great site to use to reach huge amounts of people and get more people involved. I have learned about many things going on in the world from twitter. using hashtags and getting them trending is so cool to me because you can reach people thousands of miles away! I think having twitter use in the classroom is a great way to promote new ideas and is a good way to get involved. Although with the internet there are ups and downs if we can work through those I thin it would be a great way to post assignments or discussions and having notifications on for it ensures the students will see it right away.

After discussing in class the different positive and negatives about using twitter in the classroom I still think it could be a good tool to use. As long as the class is only following that page and commenting or making posts that relate to the assignments in the course it could be a good tool. We talked about how there are negative things on twitter but if you make the page private and only allow the class to follow it I see no issue. I think children should learn in a safe environment the ways to go about social such as this one it can lead to more positive outcomes.

When exploring twitter I did the #kinderchat throughout this chat is people mentioning different teaching ways and lessons they use. They also post about some things that may be bothering them they would like to change an example would be someone mentioned a discipline chart policy and how they are looking for a more positive alternative than using the four colors. I found this through twitter scrolling through it.