Download - Twitter for Education
HARNESSING TWITTER FOR LEARNING PURPOSE
Avijit PaulMultimedia University, Malaysia
DEMOGRAPHICS &OBJECTIVE
SELF LEARNING
ACTIVE LEARNING
INCREASING ENGAGEMENT
CREATE KNOWLEDGE
CLASSROOM OF 100 STUDENTS
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT
HOW TO USE TWITTERBrief history of twitter &
TWITTER101
Hashtag (#) is used to mark a keyword or a topic
Sharing another person’s tweet
With 140 characters we need to say what we want to share
A reply is update posted by clicking the "Reply" button on another Tweet
TWEET
HASHTAG
RETWEET (RT)
@REPLIES GEO LOCATION
From where we are tweeting from
REVISITINGDEMOGRAPHICS & OBJECTIVE
SELF LEARNING
ACTIVE LEARNING
CREATE KNOWLEDGE
CREATE KNOWLEDGE
CLASSROOM OF 100 STUDENTS
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT
INCREASING ENGAGEMENT
EXCITING LEARNING ENVIRONMENTWhat do students want for an
have fun in the class
USING TWITTER IN ACADEMIAWhat can we use it for
CREATING KNOWLEDGELOCK HAVEN UNIVERSITY, LOCK HAVEN, USA
Faculty: How has reading MBM changed your ideas about responsibility or obligations toward people who are poorer than you are?
Student01: @Faculty Reading mbm has made me less self centered. I realized alot of ppl need help and you can help them by doing simple things:)
Student02: @Faculty It made me realize how selfless I need to be, just like how Farmer put his dedication toward helping others before his own needs.
Student03: I’ve realized that helping the less fortunate is a social and moral responsibility that nobody is exempt from to help make the world better.
INSTANT FEEDBACKLOCK HAVEN UNIVERSITY, LOCK HAVEN, USA
Faculty: 3 min paper option for the 21st is to tweet questions you have for upper-class pre-health professional students. Due 12pm 10/21.
Student01: @Faculty I have a psych class at noon. How am I supposed to attend?
Faculty: @Student01 If you can’t attend because of scheduling conflict, please complete 3 min paper about last class.
ORGANIZATIONSOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY, BROOKINGS, USA
Faculty: Anyone interested in forming a study group?
Student01: @Faculty for what class
Student02: @Faculty For what class?
Student03: @Faculty study group for what?
Faculty: @Student01 @Student02 @Student03 What class would you like to form a study group for? Chem?
Student05: Both Chemistry and Biology would be nice. OK how about a Chem and Bio study group? Who is in?
Student06: Anyone that wants to have a study group for Bio or Chem. Let me know and I’m in!
ASK A QUESTIONTHE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, UNIVERSITY PARK, USA
Student02: @Faculty Why are you training to become a health professional? is what I would ask them, could I go to the discussion. Alas, Bio lab.
Student03: @Faculty My question is, How many of you are planning to go into radiology and why?
Student04: @Faculty My question is – What made you decide the specific career in the health field you want to pursue?
Student05: @Faculty My question is: How many Medical schools did you apply to and how did you choose which ones to apply to?
LEARNING ENVIRONMENTAnd there is one more thing about
Hole in the wall project in 1999
LONG PERIODSo do the students really do it over
Number of tweets sent each week of the semester. Note: Twitter use began on the second week.
WHAT DO WE NEEDIn order to apply and test
MILLION DOLLAR GRANT? - NOAnother
Just tweetdeck will do for students
WHY USETWEETDECK
Everything is in one place
Can track the hashtag, DM, message etc in real time
Add facebook update so that students don’t need to leave facebook (very
important to students)
WHAT ELSE DO WE NEEDFor the educators
Everyone is well connected in #altc2011
No one is connected for #tweetdrive
Track a specific person, say @FieryRed1 173
TWITTERALYTICS @HAWKSEYAll you need is free and open source tools such as
OVERALL USAGE
CLASSROOM COMMUNITY
CLASS CHATTER
SELF LEARNING
WRITING ASSIGNMENTS
INSTANT FEEDBACK
FOLLOW A PROFESSIONAL
KNOWLEDGE CREATION
THANKYOU
Avijit Paul@cdtavijit
IMAGE CREDITS (NOT IN ORDER)
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