How Twitterate Are You? Teaching and Learning With Twitter
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Tweeting is a literacy practice worth incorporating to enhance synchronous and asynchronous learning. Becoming a Twitterate educator involves learning to master the power of the hashtag, and understanding how to leverage the microblogging tool to hone learners’ literacy skills. Learn how to design formal and informal learning opportunities with Twitter communication in 140 characters or less. Tweeting in a globally networked public space promotes dialogic teaching and learning but also the art of writing succinctly and the ability to locate, evaluate and use information effectively. Learn how to coordinate tweet chats for academic discussions and live tweeting of academic articles. If “in the 21st century the illiterate will not be those who cannot read or write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn,” learn how twitter ate you are; unlearn the misconceptions, and relearn how to improve learners’ literacy through twitteracy, a literacy practice for the digital age.
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How Twitterate Are You? Teaching and Learning With Twitter
- 1. How Twitterate Are You? Teaching and Learning with Twitter Ary Mas-Aranguiz Instructional Designer
- 2. • What is Twitter? • Fears and Misconceptions • The Hashtag • Enhancing synchronous and asynchronous teaching and learning • Essential Twitter Tools • Getting started • Q & A
- 4. Twitter is… • a micro-blogging social networking and information gathering tool • a serendipitous discovery tool • an experimental space • a powerful tool for communication and dialogue with local, national and global peers and the “Infinite Other”
- 7. If Knowledge is … • socially constructed • distributed across objects, individuals, artifacts and tools in the environment • serendipitously gathered then…
- 8. Twitter lets us … • FIND • EVALUATE • ORGANIZE • REMIX • SHARE • INFORMATION • KNOWLEDGE
- 9. How does Twitter work? • Create an account and set up a profile. • Choose your Twitter handle. • Write your Bio to let others know your expertise, interests, purpose. • Choose an avatar and background. • Link to your blog or website.
- 11. • Privacy • No Time • Information Overload • Activity outside the LMS • Assessment • Lack of technical skills • Nothing to say • Superficiality • It’s like Facebook! • Few Followers, Little Interaction • Lack of know-how Fears and Misconceptions
- 14. • Privacy • No Time • Information Overload • Activity outside the LMS • Assessment • Lack of technical skills • Nothing to say • Superficiality • It’s like Facebook! • Few Followers, Little Interaction • Lack of know-how Fears and Misconceptions
- 15. The Hashtag
- 19. Enhancing asynchronous and synchronous learning
- 20. Why should instructors and students tweet? • Build your PLN! • Share resources, collaborate and chat with peers around the world! • Live-tweet comments, links, images, etc. at conferences! • Dialogue in real time or asynchronously!
- 21. • Follow notable figures and experts in your field! • Connect with like-minded people! • Promote civic and political awareness! • Tweet questions for instant feedback! • Create a Tweet-chat book club! Why should instructors and students tweet?
- 23. • Live Tweeting of Academic Articles • The Twitter Essay and Poems • Twitter chats Enhancing asynchronous and synchronous learning
- 25. STORIFY
- 27. • Live Tweeting of Academic Articles • The Twitter Essay and Poems • Twitter chats Enhancing asynchronous and synchronous learning
- 29. • Tweetdeck • Tweetchat • Storify • Packrati.us • TAGSexplorer
- 35. TAGSexplorer
- 37. Getting Started
- 38. Getting Started • Create an account and set up a profile. • Choose your Twitter handle. • Write your Bio to let others know your expertise, interests, purpose. • Choose an avatar and background. • Link to your blog or website.
- 39. Getting Started • Basic vocabulary – Twitterer, Follower, Retweet, Direct Messaging, @reply, # • Twitter etiquette • Favoriting • Notifications • Lists • Saved searches
- 40. It’s OK to lurk at first.
- 42. Additional ResourcesTwitter History • https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/10/01/twitter-might-make-tweets- longer-heres-why-theyre-140-characters-to-begin-with/ Introduction to Twitter • http://www.jessestommel.com/Introduction_to_Twitter.pdf • http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2015/08/twitter-guides-for-teachers.html Hashtags • http://blog.williamferriter.com/2014/03/20/who-wants-to-play-hashtag-bracketology/ Teaching with Twitter • http://docslide.us/economy-finance/teaching-with-twitter-5584a19a27941.html • http://www.teachthought.com/social-media/60-ways-to-use-twitter-in-the-classroom-by-category/ • http://www.salon.com/2011/10/23/why_chomsky_is_wrong_about_twitter/ • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WPVWDkF7U8 • https://vimeo.com/39589735 • http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com.ezproxy.is.ed.ac.uk/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2729.2010.00387.x/full • http://www.scribd.com/doc/20025500/Twitter-in-Higher-Education Twitter Chats • http://etcjournal.com/2013/06/19/a-beginners-guide-to-twitter-chat-participation/ The Twitter Essay • http://www.hybridpedagogy.com/journal/the-twitter-essay/ Live Tweeting of Academic Articles • http://laurascoloringbook.blogspot.com/2015/02/twitter-journal-club-tjc15.html
- 43. Follow and tweet me @trendingteacher
- 46. Q & A
Hinweis der Redaktion
- Hi thank you for attending my presentation. My name is Ary Mas- Aranguiz, and I am an instructional Designer at NYU. I am not representing NYU at this presentation, but I am here to speak to you based on my experiences as an instructional designer, a faculty trainer and developer in both HE and K-12, and as a former high school English teacher. I will not be providing you the technical aspects on setting up a Twitter account. You can easily teach yourself how to do that, and if you need assistance, or have additional questions, you can contact me for help. My time with you today will be better spent and focused on sharing what you can do with Twitter to transform how you teach, whether it’s K-12 to HE, and how you can incorporate Twitter in your pursuit for life long learning and quality professional development.
- During this presentation, I will focus on helping you understand what Twitter is and how it works. I will address the common misconceptions and fears which often drive people away from Twitter, or prevent people from ever even trying it. I will talk about the power of hashtag and how to use it, and of course I will also share various examples on how Twitter can enhance synchronous and asynchronous teaching and learning. First thing people always ask me about Twitter is how manage the information overload, so we will also talk about essential tools for dealing with that, and finally I will share some quick tips on how to get started and allow you some time for questions at the end. Ok so let’s begin…
- Twitter is a microblogging (allows for short and frequent posts), social networking and information networking tool. Users can send, read and receive 140 character messages. Twitter is a serendipitous space, a dialogical space, and an experimental space. It is a serendipitous because when you join Twitter, and begin to follow others, you quickly see how you will stumble upon gems of knowledge and resources from experts who you can’t imagine how you didn’t know about before and you begin to engage with colleagues from around the world who share the same concerns and questions and interests but will often offer you solutions you had not thought about before. So Twitter is a space that thrives on generosity and reciprocity. It supports collaboration and dialogue with the Infinite Other… Twitter is also a dialogic space and if you would like to know more about that I recommend Rupert Wegerif’s book Dialogic: Education for the Internet Age. In it he explores how the concept of the education afforded by the internet is a form of dialogic which can be summarized as participation in ongoing inquiry in an unbounded context. When we tweet we are in essence participating in this unbounded context and are part of an ongoing inquiry with the infinite other, the infinite other being our global peers who will we stumble upon on Twitter who we may not know in advance or ever be able to fully understand but we are learning from them and with them and sharing our diverse perspectives. So Twitter supports dialogue centered learning with a global audience. Now you may be wondering how any kind of substantive dialogue can take place in 140 characters. We need to think of Twitter as also an experimental space where because there are constraints on communication, we can only express ourselves in 140 characters or less, and can only let the world know who we are and what we are about in a profile of 160 characters or less, so this creates an interesting challenge to learn and master a variety of literacies. We also need to think of Twitter as a space initial meeting and thinking space, where we initiate conversations, spark conversations and are then free to move those conversations to other spaces that allow extended text or verbal responses, such as a discussion forum or face to face discussion. Both students and teachers learn to be succinct, we learn how to experiment with language with words and punctuation, we learn the craft of writing concisely and clearly, the art of brevity, — we learn to develop and establish the type a professional identity we want to project to the world based on what we choose to tweet and who we choose to follow and engage with, we are learning to protect our privacy, we learn how to engage in dialogue with the infinite other a term used by Wegrif which explores the idea that learning takes place through dialogue in the global public space that is the internet, where we are both vulnerable and empowered…we are vulnerably public; our tweets are open to scrutiny and to criticism, to expose what we know and what we don’t, yet we are empowered to voice our opinions, start a revolution, make our learning visible to the world and discover knowledge and connect with others in a way like we have never done so before….we can share what we know, ask questions about what we want to know and share what we are learning with others.
- Twitter thrives on the idea of reciprocity…we do not learn in a vacuum, learning is social and distributed across objects, individuals, artifacts and tools in the environment, serendipitously gathered then why not use Twitter…
- Twitter lets us Find, Evaluate, Organize, Remix, Share Information, knowledge, community, and play with language
- For many educators, especially those in K-12, Twitter raises privacy concerns. How do students of all ages and educators maintain their privacy on Twitter? Twitter allows you to protect your tweets. You can decide who you follow, who views your tweets. You have the option to block and report anyone you feel is displaying inappropriate behavior. You can create an anonymous account and protect your tweets so that only those you authorize can view your tweets. In the additional resources slide at the end of the presentation, I have shared several videos on how Twitter is being used in both a kindergarten classroom and at the college level. In both contexts, there are safeguards in place so student privacy is protected. Also, learning how to protect our privacy online is a digital literacy students need to learn. It is important for students and even educators to learn how to manage our public and private online identities. Learning what information we share about ourselves, where and with whom is a critical 21st century skill and choosing to not go online or refusing to use tools like Twitter because of privacy causes people to miss out on all the benefits. Even if we decide to never use the internet, there is public Information about different aspects of our lives that are being captured in databases and published online for anyone to see. Privacy is definitely something we need to protect when using Twitter but it should not be a deterrent. Some educators have complained that Twitter will take up too much time, and that is also a valid concern but again, you can decide the purpose for using twitter with your students and how often you will use it. Information overload can be easily overcome as well if you used tools like Tweetdeck to filter your tweets and focus on particular people, topics or organizations. You are in control of your time and your information and you should not feel pressured to have to follow everyone that follows you or to read every tweet that appears in your Twitter feed. Howard Rheingold has said that we do not suffer from information overload but from filter failure. So it’s important to filter your tweets. Some professors are also wary of taking activities outside of the LMS, students may be tired and not want to set up an account or want to move back and forth between different spaces…Twitter can then be used to share resources and pose quick questions, and answers, and initiate discussions that can continue in the discussions forums. Again if students not wanting to work in multiple spaces is problematic because this is also a digital literacy, being able to traverse different digital environments that have different rules of engagement and communication requirements. Assessing learning in Twitter is also a concern for many educators. And here you need to decide what is the skill being tweeting activity is Twitter is not like FB, it is limited to 140 characters or less, while FB has a completely different interface, Twitter is about the here and now, exchanges on FB can go on for days. Twitter also as I mentioned before thrives on reciprocity so people share links, resources, ideas, etc. …and the things people share can be superficial or not. You are again in control of that superficiality. Who are the people you decide to follow? What type of communication exchanges do you want your students to have on Twitter? What type of exchanges do you want to have? You get to decide what you tweet about, what you retweet about and that eventually will show others what you are about on Twitter, your interests, your passions and expertise. The Twitterverse is vast but you get to decide which people, organizations, and publications you follow and engage with. Another huge misconception is the fear that students will not know how to use the tool, or you don’t know how to use the tool, or have few followers so engagement will be less deep and worthwhile. It takes time to build followers but the only to do it is to jump in and begin participating in Twitter chats, and following people, organizations, publications and experts in the field. You can also choose to lurk at first and observe others Twitters behavior. Learning how to use hashtags will also help you get started and develop a following but remember it’s not about the number of followers you build up but about the quality of the interactions you have with your followers.
- For many educators, especially those in K-12, Twitter raises privacy concerns. How do students of all ages and educators maintain their privacy on Twitter? Twitter allows you to protect your tweets. You can decide who you follow, who views your tweets. You have the option to block and report anyone you feel is displaying inappropriate behavior. You can create an anonymous account and protect your tweets so that only those you authorize can view your tweets. In the additional resources slide at the end of the presentation, I have shared several videos on how Twitter is being used in both a kindergarten classroom and at the college level. In both contexts, there are safeguards in place so student privacy is protected. Also, learning how to protect our privacy online is a digital literacy students need to learn. It is important for students and even educators to learn how to manage our public and private online identities. Learning what information we share about ourselves, where and with whom is a critical 21st century skill and choosing to not go online or refusing to use tools like Twitter because of privacy causes people to miss out on all the benefits. Even if we decide to never use the internet, there is public Information about different aspects of our lives that are being captured in databases and published online for anyone to see. Privacy is definitely something we need to protect when using Twitter but it should not be a deterrent. Some educators have complained that Twitter will take up too much time, and that is also a valid concern but again, you can decide the purpose for using twitter with your students and how often you will use it. Information overload can be easily overcome as well if you used tools like Tweetdeck to filter your tweets and focus on particular people, topics or organizations. You are in control of your time and your information and you should not feel pressured to have to follow everyone that follows you or to read every tweet that appears in your Twitter feed. Howard Rheingold has said that we do not suffer from information overload but from filter failure. So it’s important to filter your tweets. Some professors are also wary of taking activities outside of the LMS, students may be tired and not want to set up an account or want to move back and forth between different spaces…Twitter can then be used to share resources and pose quick questions, and answers, and initiate discussions that can continue in the discussions forums. Again if students not wanting to work in multiple spaces is problematic because this is also a digital literacy, being able to traverse different digital environments that have different rules of engagement and communication requirements. Assessing learning in Twitter is also a concern for many educators. And here you need to decide what is the skill being tweeting activity is Twitter is not like FB, it is limited to 140 characters or less, while FB has a completely different interface, Twitter is about the here and now, exchanges on FB can go on for days. Twitter also as I mentioned before thrives on reciprocity so people share links, resources, ideas, etc. …and the things people share can be superficial or not. You are again in control of that superficiality. Who are the people you decide to follow? What type of communication exchanges do you want your students to have on Twitter? What type of exchanges do you want to have? You get to decide what you tweet about, what you retweet about and that eventually will show others what you are about on Twitter, your interests, your passions and expertise. The Twitterverse is vast but you get to decide which people, organizations, and publications you follow and engage with. Another huge misconception is the fear that students will not know how to use the tool, or you don’t know how to use the tool, or have few followers so engagement will be less deep and worthwhile. It takes time to build followers but the only to do it is to jump in and begin participating in Twitter chats, and following people, organizations, publications and experts in the field. You can also choose to lurk at first and observe others Twitters behavior. Learning how to use hashtags will also help you get started and develop a following but remember it’s not about the number of followers you build up but about the quality of the interactions you have with your followers.
- Hashtags aren’t just trendy teenage language. It is through hashtags that you can filter tweets on topics you want to learn about, you can share tweets with specific hashtags adding the # symbol so that your tweet becomes searchable by others who also follow the same hashtag. When you add a hashtag to a tweet you are joining others who have also added the same hashtag. This is how you begin a conversation on Twitter with others because they are also using the same hashtag. As an instructor, you can create a unique hashtag for your course or an event and provide the hashtags so anyone who adds the unique hashtag joins that conversation thread. Students can share resources with one another by adding a course hashtag, they can pose questions and add the course hashtag so that all classmates can see each others’ tweets. Hashtags are tags and keywords, they help you filter through the endless stream of information to identify topics of interest. For example you can search for the hashtag #edchat #highered #onlinelearning #edtech so you can see all of the tweets with this particular hashtag even from the people you do not follow who have also used the hashtag. Through hashtags you can find others with similar interests and follow them to build your professional learning network, you can follow a particular hashtag on a subject of interest, for example , #higher ed and locate and curate resources this way.
- This is a graphic organizer shared by William Ferriter ….you can use to organize the hashtags you follow.
- Some essential tools for teaching and learning on Twitter are Tweetedeck, Tweetchat, Storify, Packrati.us and TAGS while there are dozens of others these are the basic ones I recommend for filtering tweets for participating in tweet chats and for creating visualiziations of tweet chat activity and for creating a narrative of tweets. Tweetdeck is an essential filtering tool for keeping track of your hashtags, followerers, saved searches, you can even schedule your tweets to go out a t specific times, you can create your own dashboard that shows the the items you want to see, such as tweets from a particular follower, or someone you follow, tweets with a particular hashtag, tweets from people on your lists, etc. Tweetdeck helps you filter the stream of information and focus in on what you want to see. Tweetchat is a little more user friendly than Tweetdeck and less intimidating interface and intuitive. It’s great for participating in Twitter chats because you filter through a hashtag and then it adds the hashtag to every tweet so you don’t have to. Storify is an essential for capturing tweets and creating narratives of the activity for a hashtag. You can also add additional media to enhance and elaborate your tweets. Packrati.us links to your twitter account and bookmarks tweets that contain links so you can revisit them later. TAGS also links to your twitter account and allows you to capture data on who tweeted the most, who had the most retweet it creates an interactive visualization
- Twitter is a microblogging, social networking and information networking tool. Users can send, read and receive short 140 character messages called tweets.