Twitter in the K 12 Classroom:

A Collaborative Tool for Learning

Michele L. Haiken, Ed.D.

March 26, 2015

What are different ways teachers can implement Twitter in the classroom for K through 12

students?

What CCLS and ISTE NET standards are students meeting by using Twitter for

educational purposes ?

Essential Questions

Anatomy of a Tweet

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If You Using Twitter Now . . .

You can use the hashtag

#ISTETweets

to post questions,

comments, and responses

throughout this webinar

Twitter as Professional Development Tool

•Connect with peers

•Follow experts in your

field

•Collaborate with other

educators across the

globe

•Share best practices and

resources

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Transferring the Power of Twitter for

Classroom Use

Twitter Book Chats

Eighth graders meet online weekly

after school hours to discuss the

book.

Students responding to teachers

questions, and also responding to

each other.

An opportunity to talk to students

outside of class and allow all

students a voice to share insights,

questions, and observations

What Students Are Tweeting . . .

Questioning Collaborate Analysis

Listening Summarize Writing Building

Vocabulary Synthesis

Evaluate

Making Connections Developing Ideas

Digital Citizenship Provide Evidence

Create Investigate Research

Comprehending

What Skills are Students

Using When on Twitter?

• Backchannels for small group work

• Snow day lessons

• Study & review sessions

• Contacting authors and experts

• Imaginative literary or historic conversations

• Global Collaboration

• Exit Tickets

Other Ways to Use Twitter in the Secondary

Classroom

How Elementary School Teachers Utilize

Twitter with their Classes

•Classroom Twitter accounts

• Tweet what’s happening in

the classroom at any moment

•Connect with experts,

authors, and people

•Tweet as a character in a

book

http://learningandsharingwithmsl.blogspot.com/2013/08/using-

twitter-in-primary-classroom.html

Parental Concerns & Student Expectations

In world of education technology, Twitter is a hot topic. Many teachers are trying to integrate this technology into their classroom in different ways. One of my personal passions is to explore and work with emerging technologies, so I am using Twitter to help make my classroom better.

For this project I would like the students to create a Twitter account that they would use for school purposes only. Three times between December and January, students will access Twitter to participate in a Twitter chat. They will answer and raise questions about topics addressed in the book Bystander by using the hashtag #RMSBystander.

Students will understand that they can partake in social media for educational purposes, and they will learn to practice positive digital citizenship behavior.

Excerpt from Parent Consent Form:

CRAFT & STRUCTURE

INTEGRATION OF KNOWLEDGE & IDEAS

TEXT TYPES & PURPOSES

PRODUCTION & DISTRIBUTION OF WRITING

VOCABULARY ACQUISTION

USE OF TECHNOLOGY

Common Core Connections

Tapping into the NETS

http://tinyurl.com/tweetiste

Twitter Resources

In addition to your favorite authors & inspirers

Randi Weingarten @rweingarten

Vicki Davis @coolcatteacher

Tom Whitby @tomwhitby

Lisa Dabbs @teachingwithsoul

Wonderopolis @Wonderopolis

Dave Burgess @burgessdave

ISTE @isteconnects

Who to Follow on Twitter

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Michele L. Haiken, Ed.D.

Blog – http://theteachingfactor.com

Email – michele@theteachingfactor.com

Twitter - @teachingfactor

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