Guide to Twitter in the K-8 Classroom
Twitter, without a doubt, has become the social network for educators to take their professional development into their own hands. Twitter allows teachers to connect with other educators from around the world, join discussions related to their interests and have a steady stream of resources (to help them teach and learn) available to them whenever, whereever and however. Creating a network on Twitter has catapulted educators to be part of a connected world where learning happens anytime, help is only a tweet away, collaboration partners meet and communicate, conversations that directly or indirectly impact their physical lives take place 24/7. Twitter is helping educators gain many 21st century skills and literacies which could easily transfer to their classrooms.
So the next question is…
How do you bring Twitter into your K-8 Classroom?
If your students are under the age of 13, they cannot create their own Twitter account (Minimum Age Restriction). The solution is to create a classroom twitter account and start tweeting as a class!
Take a look at the following guide I created to help you think of a few ideas to use Twitter in your classroom and how to introduce tweeting to your students:
- What is Twitter
- Getting Started
- How can you use Twitter in the Classroom?
- Twitter Etiquette
- The First Tweet
- What is a Quality Tweet?
- Logistics
- Twitter Vocabulary
- Tweeting Classrooms
Please leave a comment below with your username if you are tweeting with your K-8 classroom. Also add other ideas on how you have successfully used Twitter as a class.
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Really appreciate that you have shared this with us all. What a great graphically presented guide that any teacher can use to implement a twitter strategy! Sorry that we are all re-tweeting it..but is show the power of twitter as a fast form of communication. Much easier to RT as a form of approval that to write a comment
Thanks, Judy
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Silvia,
I too love twitter for many of the reason that you have mentioned. Professionally it connects me with teachers who share similar passions, but I must say I haven’t been able to transfer my use of twitter into my classroom. I have tried using twitter to share what we are learning, ask questions we need answers to and connect with other classes, but I haven’t been able to make it “stick” and have it become a tool that is used on a regular basis.
I read your content with interest and I am interested in hearing how other folks use it, because like a quote I read recently by Perry Marshall about buying a drill to get a hole I haven’t connected twitter to the right task in my classroom.
Thank you for sharing and encouraging deeper discussion.
Take care,
Sarah
I love the Logistics poster. Helpful tips I’m going to hope to add to my class.
Passing this wonderful post onto my favorite history teacher and friend! Your posts are also great for high school!
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