21st Century Learning and Teaching

And since then, plenty more forward-thinking learning professionals have recognised the value of Twitter for their own professional learning – with Twitter rising to the top of the Top 100 Tools for Learning in 2008 and staying in that position for the last 6 years.

Now, of course Twitter has become mainstream, brands and celebrities have their own Twitter accounts to promote themselves, there are live chats every day on all kinds of topics  – with even TV programmes holding their own live chats. But just like with any society, it has unfortunately meant a darker side of Twitter has emerged too.

Nevertheless, Twitter is still the most important place for me to find out what is going on in the world, but I can understand how newcomers today might be daunted at the prospective of joining up. Most of the press would have them believe it’s just a place for finding out what their colleagues had for breakfast, or what their favourite celebrity is wearing today, but it has does have clear professional value too.

Learn more:

- https://gustmees.wordpress.com/?s=twitter

- https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2015/03/28/learning-to-learn-for-my-professional-development-i-did-it-my-way/

Social media isn't just about cyberbullying and selfies. Journalist Lucy Ward explores how schools are using the likes of Twitter and Facebook to engage parents • 10 tips for how schools use social media.

Learn more:

- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?tag=Parents

For me Twitter is P2P downloading for educators. It’s the napster, limewire, utorrent, whatever for underground lessons and materials. Indie stuff. Good stuff. It’s a place to scrape the surface of some greater underlying learning in 140 characters. It’s sharing from the bottom up. Grassroots. What is happening and what is working in classrooms today.

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I use twitter (and tweetdeck) to follow certain people and certain hashtags. Tweetdeck allows you to create more than one twitter feed timeline in your browser which is ideal during twitter chats.

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I use twitter to share. I use twitter to learn. I use twitter to see a window into other classrooms. I use twitter to generate ideas. I use twitter for feedback. Twitter is on my phone – essentially attached to my hip all day long. I use twitter to capture student learning. I use twitter to share. I use twitter to learn….

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Learn more:

- https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2013/02/20/what-you-should-know-about-twitter-chats/

- https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2014/06/07/twitter-chat-security-risks-smbs-face/

- https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2014/08/29/twitter-chat-the-economic-impact-of-cybercrime/

- https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2012/06/27/how-to-use-twitter-with-success-for-education-and-more/