Ferguson, H. (2010). Enhance your twitter experience. Learning and Leading with Technology, 37(8), Retrieved from http://www.learningandleading-digital.com/learning_leading/20100607#pg1
Hadley Ferguson gives a brief description on the importance of twitter and how we can apply this tool in our teachings. She explains that we have to get out of our comfort zone in order to get optimal success in using twitter. She also gives us examples on how a teacher across the world was able to teach her 7th grade technology class, and how far you can go with a simple tweet. She states that one can learn a tremendous amount of learning if that person is able to step out of their comfort zone and share ideas. Hadley Ferguson also gives us a tiny tutorial on using hashmarks to identify which groups to tweet to and the importance of this.
Question 1: Why doesn't ALL teachers use twitter in their classrooms?
I believe many teachers do not use twitter in their classrooms because it is another technology they have to learn. Within the last few years, technology has taken over the classroom and this can cause too much learning to a teacher. I also believe that many teachers who have taught an extensive amount of time is very traditional to their teachings and is annoyed or scared on learning new things. Why change something when the old is still working?
Question 2: How can you also enhance your teachings using twitter?
Using twitter there are many options that are available that wasn't there before technology. I think the best way for teachers to use twitter is joining groups that relate to their teacher. For instance, if you are teaching history, join a famous historian. This way, the teacher and the classroom can ask questions to the historian and gain up to date answers in a quicker manner than via email.
Being able to write only 120 characters per tweet works well because whoever tweets has to get to the point and not wander off tweeting about something not irrelevant to your question or tweet.
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