10 ways to use twitter in education

Top 10 ways to use twiiter in education

1. With twitter you could hold afer-class discussions. Learning doesn't have to stop when class has ended with twitter you can start a private chat with everyone in class and chat studying together. It could help all students keep in touch.
2. You could use twitter for classroom announcements. With all your classmates, friends, school mates and teachers follwoing you on twitter it is easier to let all of them know what is going on. With the way twitter is expanding and the speed of how people tweet, classrooma announcements can be easily distributed to everyone in class.
3. We could also pass on information about events through twitter. Its fast and easy to let everyone know fast.
4. You coud also use twitter for research. Using the hashtag(#) mark it is very easy to find tweets that are relevant to the information you are trying to find.
5. Ask questions. With twitter it is very easy to ask questions there. After you have post a question, you could immediately get a response from a friend, teacher mentor or just a person in the twitter universe who has the same problem as you and has went throught the same thing.
6. Get feedback from students. I think teachers who use twitter are really cool and its a fast way for the teachers to stay in touch with them, whenever they are in need of some assistance.
7. Get instant advice and guidance. You know how there are people who post up their problems and how they dealt with it, well twitter is a great and fast way to find the advices that could help them to solve the problem.
8. Share lesson plans
9. Encourage students to make professional connections
10. Share what you're reading. Share something that you enjoyed reading and maybe someone will also find it equally thrilling as you did. Let the twitter universe grasp the knowledge you found and share with the world.

I am also a current user of twitter and I am following 3 people who are student teachers and use technology in class. They are Student Teacher(@Student Teach), Student Teacher Probs(@Studentteacherz) and technologyinclass(atechnologyincla). I followed these 3 people because to me they caught my attention out of the whole twitter universe. I found the student teachers by using the hashtag(#) @studentteachers. I read their bio and i really liked them. For technologyinclass, thats what I hashtagged and it was the only one there so i followed him.

Observing Bloom's Taxonomy

     On January 10th, our class went to Koblerville Elementary School to observe a class. It was a pretty fun time because the kids were very open about sharing every single feeling or curiosity to the teacher. It made me laugh a lot. When I was observing the elementary they were doing a writing excersise. They had to tracing the outline of sentences and then they had to write it reapeatedly. They also had to draw what the word says, like for example if they word says "purple butterfly", they had to draw it. I think the learnig domain they covered was the Cognitive learning doamin. They were comprehending the sentences and learning how to read and write. I think Ms. Torres's objective was for the students to be able to write in complete sentences and are able to match pictures to drawings.

Bloom's Taxonomy

     The Bloom's taxonomy, what do we really know of this? Well for one thing we know is that Benjamin Bloom found out about this and he identified 3 learning domains, the cognitive, affective and pyschomotor Domains.

     The first domain he identifiedwas the cognitive learning domain in 1956. This domain includes everything you know in your head, like what you know or what you want to know. Cognitive domain has six categories.

• Knowledge
• Comprehension
• Application
• Analysis is
• Keywords
• Synthesis
• Evaluation

     The second domain he identified was the Affective learning domain in 1973. This domains talks about how we handle things. The feeling we have towards everything around us and how it affects us. This domains includes 5 categories.

• Receiving Phenomena
• Responding to Phenomena
• Valuing
• Organization
• Internalizing values

  The last domain he identified was the psychomotor learning domain in 1972. It's more of a hands on learning domain. You build up your skills and learn by doing the work physically instead of watching and taking notes, well something sort of like that. There are 7 categories that fall under this domain,

• Perception
• Set
• Guided Response
• Mechanism
• Complex of Overt Response
• Adaptation
• Origination

Recall an activity in class..
     Well, I think the class I would have to say is Mr. Adsit from chemistry because he gives our class a lot of work. He gives us a homework to do at home, like taking down notes or worksheets and then he gives us a warm up every morning that relates to what we did last night. I think it is a cognitive learning domain technique because he is testing what we should know and he really tries to make us link it together with something we already know to help us remember it better.
     Also, another lesson in chemistry class are the lab works he give us. Its more of a hands on thing and its really fun. I think that falls under the pyschomotor learning domain, because we really get to grasp the idea of the lesson physically instead of just sitting there and listening to him talk all day.