Teaching With Twitter: Not for the Faint of Heart
November 27th, 2009
|Jeffrey R. Young | The Chronicle of Higher Education | 27 November, 2009
Students are emboldened, but they can also hijack discussions. Maybe Sugato Chakravarty should wear a helmet to class. The professor of consumer sciences and retailing at Purdue University repeatedly attempts the instructional equivalent of jumping a motorcycle over a row of flaming barrels.
OK, asking 250 students to post questions on Twitter during a class doesn’t risk life or limb. But it can cause ego damage if the mob of students in his course on personal finance gets disorderly online.
See also:
- Digital MadLibs (July 9th, 2010)
- When learning is the answer, what then is the question? (July 4th, 2010)
- Discovering the re-use and derivative works of Open Educational Resources (June 25th, 2010)
- [video] Personal Learning Environment of TU Graz – e-Learning Blog (June 10th, 2010)
- Gazette article on mobile technologies and libraries (June 4th, 2010)
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