I get so excited when I see others sharing my same feelings toward social media — particularly, social media and education. So many people out there think it’s a waste of time, a waste of energy. How do people not “get” that social media encourages engagement and conversation and communication… all things that are paramount in education.
It was music to my ears (well, eyes) when I stumbled upon Rey Junco’s blog post. Rey thought it would be interesting to conduct an experiment to test Twitter’s use in higher ed. Based on my excitement, I’ll give you three guesses as to what he found (the first two guesses don’t count).
I don’t want to spoil the video, it’s actually quite good, but the study concluded that students who used Twitter as an engagement tool to further classroom discussion achieved higher GPAs.
Check out the video below; and if you want to read the journal summarizing the study and findings, you can find it here.
Thanks and kudos to Rey and his students – this is an awesome piece!
What do you think? Would you ever use Twitter as part of your studies? How?
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