twitter hashtags

Hashtags in education

I think that using educational hashtags will aid the teacher more than the student, especially if they are new. The reason I say this is because many new teachers are overwhelmed their first year and it is difficult for them to cope with many students at once. One of the hashtags that I liked was #TT, meaning teacher Tuesday. Many experienced teachers use #TT and can provide many suggestions that are great for teachers that are starting out. When I did my student teaching, the principal at my school was using twitter and implemented #TT in her twitter. We had to follow her on twitter and she posted many helpful suggestion and even applications that would help us complete tasks and engage the classroom at a faster rate. This was essential because classrooms were 45 minutes long. Even though the teacher was present, we still had to take over and ensure students did not fall behind. #GlobalEd was another hashtag I liked because it shows experiences from teachers of all over the world. You can see pictures of students engaging in technology and the results of the findings in each task. Also you have many testimonies of people were some have bad experiences and some good, and you can find a classroom that is similar to yours and perhaps implement the same teaching method. Finally, I chose #vitalcpd which is effective use of technology in the classroom. The reason I chose this was because classrooms are 45 minutes long. You need technology that has been proven effective for students in classrooms. In my 11th grade math classroom I will need testimonies of other teachers that used certain applications and how much it helped them make their classroom more engaging. Overlall, twitter hashtags can make your classroom much more interesting and engaging than a traditional classroom.

Twitter can actually be very beneficial for use inside the classroom. I think that many of today’s issues however, are mainly because the instructors are not familiar with many social media apps that are for education. Students most of the time will know how to use any social media application, or even program for education. It is however, the instructor’s responsibility to fully understand how twitter can be used for education. That being said, I think that twitter can really increment how a teachers and students engage themselves and can actually work together as a team to achieve success. My focus in the classroom will be grade 11^th math, so my students will be engaged with twitter and other applications such as edmodo. Hash tags are essential to learning; the purpose of a hash tag is to connect with other users with the same subject. The way this can help your classroom is by being able to see someone elses point of view. From a learning perspective of a student, if you are able to use Hashtags in assignments, the students can simply search the hash tag to see where other students are, and how they are doing in the assignment, and their findings.  If you are able to develop a hashtag that is unique, then that is where it gets better, because you will narrow down the results to your classroom.  Another reasons why hashtags are important, especially in technology, are that you can actually share your findings with others. If you happened to be ahead on an assignment this can work by helping out your fellow classmates, twitter has been essential for researches that are seeking cures for diseases. So when dealing with difficult problems in the classroom, you can search by hashtags to find suggestions or experiences from others with the same problem.