Boiler Bytes: Hotseat lets students Facebook, Tweet in class to improve learning

College students have always talked about their classes, and lately the conversations have moved to Facebook, Twitter and text messages, often during the class lecture itself.
Now, in a clever bit of educational jujitsu, an application developed at Purdue University uses those backchannel conversations to improve the students' learning.
http://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/students/2009/091102BowenHotseat.html

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