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Using twitter as a higher order thinking tool in the classroom (schoolnetsa11)
The document discusses using Twitter, or "tweeting", as a tool to promote higher-order thinking skills. It suggests ways that tweeting can encourage communication, relationship building, and sharing of resources. While tweeting is presented as a possible method for professional development and connecting students globally, the document also questions whether simple tweeting qualifies as "thinking" or if a higher level of engagement, termed "twinking", is required to achieve educational benefits.
Using twitter as a higher order thinking tool in the classroom (schoolnetsa11)
- 1. Twitter TwinkingA higherorder thinking toolMaggie Versterwww.ICT4Champions.zawww.school2.co.za
- 2. Setting the stagewww.twitter.comorm.twitter.com
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- 5. www.ict4champions.co.za(Facebook Page)Are youtweeting yet?
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- 10. Passing on readingand resourcesAre you/we thinking yet?
- 12. Why I loveitCommunication
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- 16. Passing on cuttingedge reading and resources
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- 18. Connecting students onprojects globallyAre we thinking yet?
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- 20. How do weget from Tweeting to thinking?twinking?Are you/we thinking yet?
- 21. Oops I thinkI just farted.Is this a twink?Blooms revised taxonomySource: http://bit.ly/fuTKU1My Blooms resources:http://www.diigo.com/user/maggiev/blooms
- 22. What will yourclassroom look like in 5 years time?Is this a twink?Blooms revised taxonomySource: http://bit.ly/fuTKU1My Blooms resources:http://www.diigo.com/user/maggiev/blooms
- 23. Put on yourtwinking capsCreate a thinking cap
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- 26. ….Is this atwink?
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- 30. Issues?What do YOUtwink?
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- 34. Lots more tools:BrowseraddonTwitter tools database
- 35. Tweetdoc.org HomeworkGet stuckin today #schoolnetsa11
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- 37. Twink about whatthe speakers say.
- 38. Get your studentsto twink Don’t stink-Twink
Editor's Notes
- #2 [twitter]This presentation can be found on my www.school2.co.za blog [/twitter][twitter] Follow the conference hashtag or go to my Facebook fanpage www.ict4champions.co.za [/twitter]
- #3 [twitter] setting up the back cannel: connect on your mobiles at m.twitter.com or use FB application on smartphones [/twitter][twitter] A basic step by step to register for a twitter account can be found here: http://www.slideshare.net/maggiev/africa-highered-ict-conference-2011 [/twitter][twitter] #schoolnetsa11 day 1: http://ow.ly/4pYqK [/twitter]
- #4 Picture source:http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2363/2157610777_d6d62270ca_m.jpg[twitter]#schoolnetsa11 100 ways to teach with twitter http://www.emergingedtech.com/2010/02/100-ways-to-teach-with-twitter/ [/twitter][twitter] 50 Ways to Use Twitter in the College Classroom http://www.onlinecolleges.net/2009/06/08/50-ways-to-use-twitter-in-the-college-classroom [/twitter][twitter] report on study of how HED are using twitter 2010 http://www.facultyfocus.com/free-reports/twitter-in-higher-education-2010-usage-habits-and-trends-of-todays-college-faculty [/twitter]
- #6 http://www.flickr.com/photos/webagentur24/2988615491/[twitter]#schoolnetsa11How to set up twitter as a conference backchannel: http://c4lpt.co.uk/140Learning/presentation.html [/twitter][twitter]#schoolnetsa11 Twitter and PowerPoint tools http://www.sapweb20.com/blog/powerpoint-twitter-tools/instructions/#twitterupdate [/twitter][twitter]#schoolnetsa11 @holleyrae ‘s great twitter presentation: http://www.slideshare.net/hollyrae/twitter-in-education-considerations-possibilities [/twitter]
- #7 [twitter] twitter adoption matrix http://tinyurl.com/yksnmeg [/twitter]
- #8 [twitter] How do we get from tweeting to thinking=> twinking? [/twitter]
- #9 [twitter] Those who have to twigged onto the educational value of twitter often say tweets are trivial [/twitter]
- #11 http://www.flickr.com/photos/shironekoeuro/4432797164/[twitter] Please take a photo with your cellphone of your thinking cap and upload 2 twitter?[/twitter]
- #12 [twitter] Blooms interactive differentiator http://www.byrdseed.com/differentiator/ [/twitter]
- #13 Picture source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mytudut/5189224738/
- #14 [twitter] Some tools to manage your multiple personas www.hootsuite.com or www.tweetdeck.com [/twitter][twitter] Shorten your urls Bit.ly or goo.gle (can create a QR code) [/twitter][Twitter] Create a backchannel PDF at tweetdoc.org [/twitter]
- #15 [twitter] How Prof Parry used twitter with his students http://chronicle.com/blogPost/A-Professor-s-Tips-for-Using/3643 [/twitter][twitter] Don’t stink- twink [/twitter]Picture source: http://farm1.static.flickr.com/7/6554842_b55d3f789d_t.jpg