Encouraging Tweeting During Class Time
Posted by Vanessa Messina in education, learning, Social Media, Twitter
Teachers at schools such as the University of Texas and Purdue are using Twitter to get their lecture classes more involved. When class sizes are large, less people seem to participate. Twitter is changing that. Instead of the teacher standing in front of a large lecture hall for 50 minutes, students are encouraged to supplement the discussion with Tweets from their laptops or cell phones. The screen will update live for the teacher to address and talk about further.
Not only is this increasing class participation and attention, it is also a good study guide after class. At the University of Texas teachers have also noticed that students are logging on after class and posting in response to lecture time comments. Now instead of having three students out of 90 participating, it has jumped to about 40. For the students who don't have access to Twitter during class time, they can hand write their comments, give them to the TA, and she will post them after class.
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