Microblogging

Using Twitter as a tool for education? It sounds like it has a great deal of potential within the classroom and it could increase the students interest in almost any topic. I read the articles Can we use Twitter for Educational Activities and Forget E-Mail:New Messaging Service Has Students and Professors Atwitter . From the field of Social Studies, I would love to use twitter within the classroom to keep the students up to date on current events, it has great potential to keep students together on group projects because they will be able to collaborate outside of the classroom, as a teacher I would be able to follow there progress through a project, and it is fun for the students. Students today are vet comfortable with twittering and adding to the classroom as a learning tool would only increase their interest. They are growing up with the technology and to actively engage them in the classroom, we have to introduce new forms of technology and Twitter shows great potential.