Twitter in the Classroom? It Works in College…
VodPod had this fascinating five-minute video recently on a Twitter experiment. An instructor at the college level used Twitter to facilitate discussions in a history class with 90 or so students. The results? People who otherwise might not have participated took part. Distracting and off topic remarks were minimized by the 140 character limitation of the microblog format. A permanent record of the discussion was created (on Twitter) and the instructor could go back after class and continue the discussion by responding to student posts.
Can this be used in secondary school classrooms? Probably. I think I might could make it useful even in the intermediate grades…
