Learning to Tweet/Tweeting to Learn

Martin Waller Creative Learning Coordinator Holy Trinity Rosehill Primary SchoolUKLA International Conference - Friday 15th July 2011

Classroom Teacher of Orange Class (Year 2) at HolyTrinity Rosehill Primary School. Creative Learning Coordinator for Nursery through to Year 6. Postgraduate student (MA in New Literacies) at the University of Shefﬁeld.Independent educational researcher working with arange of organisations.

Waller, M. (2010) It’s very very fun and ecsiting – using Twitter in theprimary classroom. English Four to Eleven, Summer, pp. 14–16.Waller, M. (2011) ‘Everyone in the World Can See It’ - DevelopingPupil Voice through Online Social Networks in Czerniawski, G. andKidd, W. (Eds) The Student Voice Handbook: Bridging the Academic/Practitioner Divide. Emerald Group Publishing (Published September

Web-based services that allow individuals to (1)construct a public proﬁle or semi-public proﬁle within abounded system, (2) articulate a list of other users withinwhom they share a connection, and (3) view andtraverse their list of connections and those made byothers within the system. (boyd and Ellison, 2008: 221)

“Friend me on Facebook and I’ll totally conﬁrm...” (Dialogue from ‘Sorority Row’ - Hendler, 2009: [00:27:50])

Start your own Personal Learning Network by followingthe people on this Twitter list. http://twitter.com/MultiMartin/project-pln

Much of the moral panic around new media focuses onthe idea that they distract the attention of children andyoung people from engaging with print literacy practicesand are a causal factor in falling standards in literacy inschools.(Davies and Merchant, 2009: 111)

Reading in this context means not simplydecoding, but involves the taking part in theconstruction of social networks in whichknowledge is co-constructed and distributed.(Marsh, 2010: 29)

Children must not mention their name or any o ftheirfriends by name under any circumstances. Children must not check for replies or direct messages. Children must not navigate away from our Twitter stream page or look at other people’s proﬁles.(Waller, 2010)

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