Twitter Chats

I feel that technology has a good and an evil side in the classroom.  We need to make sure that we are not replacing teaching with technology but instead supplementing our teaching with technology.  If this is done right, students will more likely have a better learning experience. 

Technology can be used in the classroom to increase communication, facilitate discussions, and spark new interests/ideas.  These all add to the human and social lenses of learning.  This week I have been learning about and using Twitter.  Twitter and many other social platforms would allow for students to easily interact with other students, experts, teachers, etc. from all over the world that they typically wouldn’t get a chance to.

Technology allows for learners to obtain knowledge from a variety of sources and to express their opinion and thoughts about this knowledge through different ways of communication.  I think this is great because it allows for students to be more aware of their writing because their audience is bigger.

I definitely feel that literacy is always changing.  Technology has had a major impact on literacy in that there is a wealth of information now accessible to students and this information is now available from numerous resources.  Students are continually finding new ways to access information and communicate with one another.

When using Twitter, I searched numerous hashtags. I found some that worked for me.  Other hashtags, I thought, were too broad.  I liked being able to choose my own hashtag because it allowed for me to bounce in and out of topics that were pertinent to me at that moment.