Twitter in the classroom. Is it in you?

• Teaching With Twitter: Not for the Faint of Heart - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education - Annotated

  tags: twitter, web2.0, education

  • OK, asking 250 students to post questions on Twitter during a class doesn't risk life or limb. But it can cause ego damage if the mob of students in his course on personal finance gets disorderly online.
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  • During one session this month, students took over the back channel to ask the professor to cancel class Thanksgiving week so they could have a longer vacation.
  • Opening up a Twitter-powered channel in class—which several professors at other universities are experimenting with as well—alters classroom power dynamics and signals to students that they're in control.
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    • - post by robert_alford

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