Twitter for Teaching

     

     Known as an efficient and effective tool for communication, twitter can help with teaching and learning as well. Based on my experience, it is not rare to see that students forget due dates and thus lose points on their homework. And twitter will do me a great favor. According to Teaching HUB, twitter can help with posting due dates. Reminding due dates via twitter can be a good solution to such problem. Twitter can also work as a tool for assignments. Teachers can also post homework on the twitter, and let students post comments. Besides using twitter as a tool for reminding due dates and post assignments, I will use it as a tool for question answering. It is amazing that twitter can be a place for Q & A, according to Teaching HUB, especially during the lecture. 

     Education should not be limited in the classroom. It will be awesome if students who are not able to attend class learn together with their fellow students. In my future teaching, I will use it to help students catch up with class. According to the article, Twitter - Expanding our Classroom - Shrinking the World, "it broke down the walls of our classroom and allowed students in classrooms across the country to interact and learn from each other." There should not be walls between in-the-class and -out-of-the-class. And breaking the wall is one of the responsibilities of teachers.