Following people on twitter has been interesting. Many of the posts seem snippets of thoughts to be shared with others. I find this interesting if you are unable to have a face to face conversation with someone due to geographical separation but am concerned regarding its application as an educational tool. It could be a great device to remind students when work is due or special supplies are needed. I think it could be helpful for people working on a project who have split the task into small parts to maintain communication. It would be great for a travelling salesperson to update the home office on sales transactions. I think it is more useful among adults in the workplace than students in school, but maybe that is my inabiility to look beyond my thought process. I see this as helpful for communication brief notices to students and or parents but do not see how it can be used in my middle school Spanish classroom. I think it could be used with college students since they are plugged in to this anyway. I think our school policy restricting the presence of cell phones and iPods and such in th classroom is part of why I struggle to see this used in my room. I see iot as a newsflash tool and little of what I saw from the people I followed convinced me otherwise. Maybe I am getting stodgy and close-minded but I find this tech tool to be least applicable to my teaching situation.
In my personal life it wouold be a great tool to share snippets of my day with people I am geograpjhically distanced from and miss having conversations with face to face. I think it is a great social tool for that reason. I found people I followed for that purpose far more interesting and relevant than others I followed.
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