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The document discusses the use of Twitter as a pedagogical tool in higher education, emphasizing its role in enhancing student engagement and communication. Various studies are referenced, including an experiment where Twitter was integrated into a history course to facilitate class discussions. Findings suggest that Twitter can improve faculty-student contact, encourage cooperation, and enhance instructors' perceived credibility.
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- 1. Continuingenzaantenosconforti, ph.d.montclair stateuniversityantenosconfe@mail.montclair.eduivenus personal @belSummer InstituteConnected Community Learning: The Next DecadeAugust 2011
- 3. twitterin higher edfacultyfocus special report 09/09
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- 6. twitterin higher edfacultyfocus special report 09/09
- 7. Wait! What exactlyis twitter?Micro-Blogging, Social Networking Service, a form of social mediaUsers send updates/tweets via SMS, IM, mobile devices or WebLight-weight blogging, short posts (140 characters or less)
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- 9. the timeline140 charactersretweetLinkto picturePicture iconhashtagPicture iconretweetLink to picturehashtag
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- 12. twitter as atoolPEDAGOGY FIRST.TECHNOLOGY SECOND.
- 13. the toolMassive User-to-UserCommunicationGenerateIncomeAllow short multi-use messages within a flexible networkFollow@DM140 CharactersWeb, App, SMS
- 14. original scholarshipMSc inPolitics and Communication (2007)Foreign language research (2009)Student participation during class time (2009)College student engagement & grades (2011)Students’ perceptions of teacher credibility (2011)
- 15. twitter master’s thesisToacquire a better understanding of why people use Twitter to disseminate messages, several users participated in a questionnaire to provide insight into the platform. Based on the content analysis’ results, it is possible to conclude that the majority of Twitter users observed are appropriating the platform beyond “What are you doing?”.
- 16. twitter and foreignlanguagesWhat are students’ Twitter habits? With what frequency do students tweet, what factors affect that frequency, and what topics do they initiate? How do students evaluate Twitter as a pedagogical tool for learning the Italian language and learning about Italian culture?
- 17. the twitter experimentMonicaRankin (University of Texas at Dallas) integrated Twitter into her history course, creating her own set of best practices.Her objective: to pull more of her 90 students in the introductory course into class discussions during a 50 minute period.Student comments:“Getting outside of comfort zones”“Students incorporated in class”“To put more history and knowledge out there through intelligent discussion is really cool”
- 18. supporting engagement inthe college classroomReynol Junco et al. asked these research questions:What effect does encouraging the use of Twitter for educationally relevant purposes have on student engagement?What effect does encouraging the use of Twitter for educationally relevant purposes have on semester grades?Findings included:Improved contact between faculty & studentsEncouraged cooperation between studentsPromoted active learningFaculty provided prompt feedbackMaximize time on task & build stronger learning community
- 19. supporting engagement inthe college classroomKirsten Johnson (Elizabethtown College) replicated a previous study on Facebook. Is a college teacher’s perceived credibility is enhanced by: Social tweetsScholarly tweetsSocial and scholarly tweetsConclusion: Sharing personal information with students, by posting updates on the social networking site Twitter, can increase the perceived credibility of the instructor.
- 20. Continuingquestions? comments? feedback?twitter:ivenusmail: antenosconfe@mail.montclair.eduweb: chss.montclair.edu/~antenoseAugust 2011
Editor's Notes
- #3 Tweets are more often than not considered mindless banalities… it is the cocktail party of one’s virtual life. Though allowing students to speak in “sound bites” and “self-obsess” (http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/2699/a-professors-tips-for-using-twitter-in-the-classroom) via Twitter may seem to contradict the concept of higher learning and the quest for knowledgeHow can these self-obsessive sound bites contain transferrable skills to education?
- #6 And again in egyptin January 2011Can Barrack Obama get a “kill the net switch” approved?
- #8 Twitter is a microblogging service, a social network site thatenables learning, communication, sharing, collaboration, communityIt is always on, always connected…so are the tweeps
- #10 Where you tweet in 140 characters or less – message size is key to Twitter’s successRT – tweet worth sharing with your timeline sharing and crediting resourcesLinks – twitpic pictures no separate account required / links to articles, sites, etc. open in new browser tab/windowHashtag – way to join a conversation about a certain “trending topic” – useful for conferences (#ACTFL10), current events, etc. cavaet. #hashtags have a shelflife. If it is not used for a certain period of time, it is no longer searchable
- #11 At the beginning of a tweet, the conversation is “recordable”…that is it is easy to read the thread of the dialogue. In the middle of a tweet, the thread of the dialogue is lost.Why is it important to haveDMs? Everything on twitter is open, searchable by Google and other search engines. Conversations maybe easily followed. So if this openness is an issue, the twitterer should lock the account, an option offered in the account setup. Advantages to a private twitter account are that it is exclusive to friends, no spambots or people who like to friend anyone. Disadvantages, hard to develop your PLN if people don’t cannot read your tweets on your area of expertise or areas you would like to develop.
- #12 Twitter is a microblogging service, a social network site thatenables learning, communication, sharing, collaboration, communitySHARE-Knowledge, ideas, linksFollow-experts/gurus, learning domains, trendsBuild-groups, courses, communitiesConverse-questions, reflections, discussionsIt is always on, always connected…so are the tweepsResearch has been conducted on the content (what we tweet), what we share and what we learn (students perceptions), the building of communities.
- #13 It behooves me to stop at this point and state that many scholars, researchers, teachers, students alike know that technology doesn’t make good pedagogy. So despite twitter’s “popularity”, should you use it in your class? Only if it meets our goals. Here, I present to you the tool alignment & adoption model as presented by Sarah Smith roberts aka @intellagirl
- #14 Strategic – activities = Goals to engage in that encourage users to engage in the tooTactical – genres = Communication behaviors that are stable responses to recurrent communication situationsOperational – mechanics= Abilities that allow users to engage in genres
- #16 London school of economics - Successfully defended September 2007 – @ev and @jack launch twitter in March 2006 The findings are discussed within a theoretical framework exploring the role of society in shaping technology and the influence a technology’s design may have on how it is used. the Social Shaping of Technology (SST) and Social Construction of Technology (SCOT), 3,371 tweets were classifiedTaken together, it could be argued that Twitter’s creators established it as a ‘neutral’ platform, entirely malleable by its users and therefore affording them the opportunity to determine its core uses.
- #17 CALICO MONOGRAPH SERIES chapter 4 My study – research conducted in Spring of 2008Dunlap, J. C. & Lowenthal, P. R. (2009). Tweeting the night away: Using Twitter to enhance social presence. Journal of Information Systems Education, 20(2). Another study by Lowenthal and Dunlap, in the fall of 2008 looked at the role of twitter in an online instructional design and technology courses. We did not require students to participate, but invited them to join us in our Twitter adventure as we tested its instructional potential. Although not everyone chose to participate, most did with positive results. This was integrated as a mechanism for just-in-time social interactions.
- #18 Same institution as David Parry, author and persona @AcademHack who recognized the value of this social networking tool & commenced a conversation on transforming it to educational networking (blog posts in early 2007 and 2008)Use of twitter as an inclass tool that allowed for participation, reflection and further comments after class too. Twitter stream monitored by graduate TA and students who didn’t have a computer, mobile device, not comfortable with tweeting, would leave comments with TA who would post them after the lesson
- #19 main reason was that there wasn’t as much penetration on TwitterPopularity of Twitter in Education and higher ed – determine if there is any effectFindings to be released in forthcoming issue of Journal of Computer Assisted Learning (Volume 26, issue 6, nov 2010)
- #20 main reason was that there wasn’t as much penetration on TwitterPopularity of Twitter in Education and higher ed – determine if there is any effectFindings to be released in forthcoming issue of Journal of Computer Assisted Learning (Volume 26, issue 6, nov 2010)