Twitter interactive
- 1. Twitter as a teaching and learning tool in the classroom
- 2. Headings Introduction to twitter as social media app for teaching and learning Benefits of twitter use in the classroom Practical challenges of using Twitter as a pedagogical tool references
- 3. Introduction to twitter as social media app for teaching and learning Social media “supplements blended learning which helps students creative positive ng in relations to pedagogical objectives”, (Chawinga, 2017: 4). Two notable distinct but interrelated approaches to pedagogy facilitated by social media noted include reflective and collaborative activities of learning (Htay, McMonnies, Kalua, Ferley and Hassanein ,2020) . Reflective activities entails student’s ability to think critically on content learnt and be able to link to previous knowledge learnt (Htay, McMonnies, Kalua, Ferley and Hassanein , 020) . HOME
- 4. Benefits of twitter use in the classroom Twitter enables the students to have “a voice, to be more engaged and to interact more freely with both their peers and instructor via knowledge sharing and Twitter discussions”. Menkhoff, Chay, Bengtsson, Woodard & Gan, 2015) Twitter is a rich platform to support learning related interactions and these include sending questions to peers, sharing useful resources and engaging with fellow students useful to promote higher order thinking such as giving critique to other’s work and designs, coordination, collaborative plans that include time management and group formation. HOME
- 5. Benefits of twitter use in the classroom Twitter can be used as an in-class assessment tool. Prompt feedback is given which assists the facilitator/lecturer to monitor if students comprehended the content taught in class Prompt feedback allows the facilitator to identify knowledge gaps and address them promptly(Chawinga ,2017) . HOME
- 6. Practical challenges of using Twitter as a pedagogical tool low participation with using the tool and its purpose in academic work some students are not comfortable with privacy of the platforms which led to hesitations to initiate tweets and reluctance to express opinions publicly (Htay, McMonnies, Kalua, Ferley and Hassanein ,2020). some challenges that hinder use of social media include technical skills, inadequate technological infrastructures, bandwidth, poor reference material (often from unreliable sources), high volume of plagiarism as there is high level of openness of content (Chawinga ,2017) HOME
- 7. references Chawinga, W. D. (2017). Taking social media to a university classroom: teaching and learning using Twitter and blogs. International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education, 14(1), 3. Htay, M. N. N., McMonnies, K., Kalua, T., Ferley, D., & Hassanein, M. (2020). Postgraduate students' perspective on using Twitter as a learning resource in higher education. Journal of Education and Health Promotion, 9. Menkhoff, T., Chay, Y. W., Bengtsson, M. L., Woodard, C. J., & Gan, B. (2015). Incorporating microblogging (“tweeting”) in higher education: Lessons learnt in a knowledge management course. Computers in Human Behavior, 51, 1295-1302. HOME