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Four ways to use Twitter with your students
From the course: Teacher Tech Tips
Four ways to use Twitter with your students
- Welcome to Teacher Tech Tips. I'm Oliver Schinkten. This week, I want to show you how Twitter can be a valuable tool to improve your class. There are a lot of misconceptions when it comes to social media especially Twitter. Many people see it as a waste of time or a way to update people about what you're doing right now. Well, over the past few years Twitter has evolved into an incredible source of professional development. It allows you to connect with thousands of like-minded educators from around the world to share resources, stories, and advice. But using it for this will be the topic of a different Teacher Tech Tip video. In this video, I want to discuss how you can use Twitter to improve your class. First of all, your students need you to use Twitter. They need to see more teachers model appropriate digital citizenship. We talk a lot in the schools about getting students career ready. But we often give little to no attention to our students' online behaviors. In a recent…