The first way is using Twitter as a search engine. As mentioned in the Edudemic website The Teacher's Guide To Twitter, Hashtags are useful tools for us to find the materials we are interested at. I will be helpful for learner to learn some new words. For instance, I will give my students ten new words without meaning, and they can use Twitter as a search engine, they can find all the useful information about the new words and also they will memorize the words quickly. I can also allocate a presentation for my students, and they can use the Twitter to get as much as information as they can, so they can find enough material to present.
After read the article 60 Inspiring Examples of Twitter in the classroom, the second way is using Twitter as a journal. Sharing is an important function in Twitter. As a teacher, I can save all the valued materials, and share all of them once a week, so students can read all the materials like reading a journal. They can choose the aspects that they are interested at to read. Moreover, they can also leave down the comments, which is impossible in reading journal.
The last way is using Twitter as a quiz sheet. I can post quiz on my Twitter every day and ask students to answer it in their comment. Like Staff Writers stated in his blog, I can also set the quiz as a bonus. As the result, student will enjoy the learning while they are refreshing their Twitter.
I'm not sure if Twitter is the best tool for learning new vocabulary, but I've never tried it. Perhaps you could experiment a little to see if it works well or if another tool might be more efficient.
ReplyDeleteYes, I think I should try more tools to figure out which are most efficient. Thanks, Professor.
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