Twitter in the classroom?

High schoolers at Roosevelt High School in Minneapolis, Minn. are being engaged in the classroom in a whole new way. By using social media tools and giving them access to the Internet, students are able to learn in different ways. Having discussions about their English class online has increased their level of attention and engagement in their studies.

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[sophiekraig]

so many macbooks

[ScienzeSociale]

Great Project Minneapolis Students, Well done!

I'm doing really similar things (Podcasting for oral fluency, social science videos for motivation and expressing our thoughts, Twitter for E-Twinning etc.)

It too has proved to be really popular. with my students. Feel free to drop by our wiki sometime to check out what we're up to.

Best of Luck,

Mr S. Dickens.

[Daniel Piovezan]

SOMEBODY IS TRYING SOMETHING DIFFERENT AND I DON'T THINK IT'LL WORK! YADDA YADDA YADDA

[EnriqueSanzGuillen]

Sounds like an interesting programme, with different positive and negative points, as many of you already mentioned. If you think about the purposes cited by the educational researcher, Cynthia Lewis, then it probably sounds like a great programme, but, is that really enough? Does anybody know where to observe a full lesson in progress to see how it actually works?

[Tomas Frohawk]

lol

[dablaire89]

So what about the people surfing facebook or youtube or some other websites during the class? Who knows they could be playing flash games too !

[Brian Estremos]

this isnt a good idea, this is a great idea!

[RevDrZenobiaA James]

I will use social media for an Adult online Bible Study. Thanks for sharing.

[Marvea Jolicoeur]

Ayee! that first girl who talked is one of my assistant coaches (:

[thegreeensky]

nice.. good idea... simply awesome!

[EmilyandKeiani]

At Brooklyn Center high school in MN my Tech8 class is starting using social networking. I'm in charge of some of the Social Networking (The Twitter)

Hope it works too..

-Keiani

[Robert Paulsen]

dude there is alot here lol, we got the best wellfare, so we got walks of all shitholes of the planet