Yesterday I participated in my first twitter chat. I had absolutely no idea what I was doing. Slowly but surely, I got the hang of it— for the most part. To find a twitter chat that I would be interested in, I searched the internet and came to this: 40 education Twitter chats worth your time. I decided I wanted to participate in the #EdTechChat because it seemed most relevant to my graduate degree: Master of Arts in Educational Technology. Pictures produced by the author. This depicts the question/answer model explained below. At first, I had no idea what I should be tweeting. As I spent some time reading through other tweets, I figured out that a question was posted every few minutes by the “leader” of the chat. It would be posted as Q1, Q2, etc. Then, the participators in the chat would tweet with answers as A1, A2 etc. I figured this out by the fifth question and got to answer it properly. The chat was not what I expected. I was thinking there would be more talk about technology and education. Mostly people were tweeting about whether or not professional development should be mandatory in the summer. However, I did find one very interesting resource from someone participating in the chat. She tweeted about how she had behavior problems in her classroom, which is something I really struggle with in my classroom as well. She recommended reading “Help for Billy: A beyond consequences approach to helping challenging children in the classroom” by Heather T. Forbes, which I now plan to do. This is where I found the idea to read the book mentioned above. This Twitter chat experience made me think of Douglas Thomas and John Seely Brown’s (2011) idea that engaging in “play” is an effective way to learn, and I feel that is what I did when participating in this chat. I plan to try the #EdChat next! References
Fingal, D. (2018). 40 education Twitter chats worth your time. Retrieved from https://www.iste.org/explore/Professional-development/40-education-Twitter-chats-worth-your-time Thomas, D., & Brown, J. S. (2011). A new culture of learning: Cultivating the imagination for a world of constant change. Lexington, KY: CreateSpace.
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