When I heard that we were going to have to create a twitter for this class I was not happy about it. I do not have a personal account for a few different reasons. I do use facebook, but that is the only internet social website that I use. However, once we started the account for professional reasons, I started to understand the reasons behind the professional account. I did not like doing the quiz online, only because I am still new to twitter and I am not very quick about it. I understood the concept of it, however being new with twitter makes it very hard to move around on the website.
Overall, I think that Twitter can be a great tool for teachers that are teaching High school and College. I do not see how Elementary children should be using twitter. A lot of children do not understand how dangerous the internet can be. Another concern I have is if teachers wanted to use twitter, outside of the classroom they are expecting every child to have access to a computer and the internet. You never know what a child's life is at home, and putting something like this in the classroom I think would be okay, but should not be expected to be used outside of the classroom.
I agree completely with using twitter for high school and college level is okay in the classroom and they shouldn't be expected to use it at home. And with the elementary level it would be too complicated I agree to bring them into a social network like twitter at their age.
ReplyDeleteI also agree about the age. Unless they were fourth or fifth graders, and they made a class only Twitter account. But that's a lot of work and stress for the teacher to get set up.
ReplyDeleteI agree. I think Twitter should only be used with college and high school students. It seems to be the appropriate age group.
ReplyDeleteI never thought about that until just now. I would have to agree that it would be appropriate only in high school and up. I do think they should be taught what a good resource it can be as well.
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