Strategies for Engaging Students in the Classroom Using Twitter

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Why DoWe Ask Kids to Unplug in School?

Engaged Students Are Not

Easily Distracted

Moving From Distraction

To Discussion

We Need to Be Developing Digital Citizens!

Technology supplements great instruction; it does

not supplant it!

What Happens in a Twitter Minute?

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Getting Started

AUPand

Social Media Policy

Create a Twitter-Driven School Culture

Source: Edutopia

Reserve aTwitter ID for Your

Classroom

Bringing Twitter to the Classroom

Source: The Atlantic

BYOT

Start Early

“Tweet-Out-the-Door”

Microblog of Classroom Events

Collaboration

Tweet Around the World

Chat with an Expert

“Twitter Chats”

1 Hour a Week 6PM – 7PMFrid

ays

Backchannel

“Live Tweet Field Trips”

Photo Courtesy of Flickr CC BY 4.0

“Foreign Language News Stream”

“Weatherman”

“Digital Classroom Newspaper”

“Project-based Learning”

#PBL

“Literary Characters”

“Literary Analysis”

“Succinct Summaries”

140 Characters

Chat With an Author

“College Selection Process”

Outside of Class Discussions

In Class Discussions

Create a ‘News Feed’

Create Word Clouds

Metacognitive/Reflective Activities

Theorize Cause-Effect Relationships of Trending Topics

Twitter Research: Gather Real-World Data

Probability (Mathematics)

Brainstorm Story Ideas

Scavenger Hunt

Follow Live Events

RECAP

Why Twitter?

Global Perspective

Inspiration

Thank you to the Texas Association for

the Gifted and Talented

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