This week, I was assigned a few articles for reading and was asked to respond to one of them for my (sort of) weekly blogpost. If you'd like to follow along with the class, the article can be found here. Apparently, two second grade classes have been twittering back and forth across Maine: One class is located in Bangor, and the other is in Greene.
I don't mean to sound like a snob or anything... but the article reads more like a plug for twitter than an expose on the creative teaching some educators are doing. "There are lessons in grammar, spelling, math," the article says, but what exactly are these lessons?? I'd be really interested in hearing how a teacher conducts a math lesson through twitter, which you can only use 140 characters in a single update. Are they sharing links to math lessons? Doing multiple updates with single steps in each new "tweet"?
The teacher makes a valid point about teaching writing being hard. It is hard, and it is necessary to try a variety of ways to transfer these skills to students, because so much of communication is done through writing. I wish the reporter had said more about what kind of lessons are being taught using twitter. I'd be interested in adapting those lessons for a high school age. But as it is, I can't think of how I'd get my English classes online with this site... Maybe if their twitter was a place to record links they've found? But then, isn't that what a blog is for??
Hmm...
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