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in a middle school in Lacrosse, Wisconsin.
in a middle school in Lacrosse, Wisconsin.
Collaboration
- Share ideas with other students in your school
- The possibility to work with students at other schools
- The ability to communicate with students other countries
- Access to scholarly minds and the ideas of professionals who use Twitter (Authors, Professors, etc.)
Communication/Classroom Community
- Due dates and assignments can be easily accessed
- Information is presented in an organized way
- Allows for teacher-peer-parent communication
- Parents can follow updates (including photo or video) during special events or field trips
- Students can tweet questions and respond to questions of peers.
Accessibility
- Students, parents, teachers, and administrators have the ability to access their educational twitter account when they are anywhere. All that is needed is the device (Smartphone, iPad, Tablet) and some 3G, 4G, or WIFI.
Publication
Student work has the potential to be broadcasted world wide for friends, families, and the entire world wide web.
It is proven time and time again that students will engage more in instructional activity when they know their work will be published...
It is proven time and time again that students will engage more in instructional activity when they know their work will be published...
- When students write, their peers will want to read what they have to say. When they read out loud or share a personal moment, their peers will listen. Published student authors and artists inspire others to write and draw in a far more powerful and telling way than teachers can. Publication Motivates a Vast Majority of the Students Publication is a great motivational tool for many students, involving even those who don’t consider themselves to be writers (Lange, 1992).
- This incentive gives the students the opportunity to be proud of what they have accomplished (King & Stovall, 1992).
- Publication serves as a motivational tool for those reluctant readers, writers, and speakers (Dollieslager, 1993).