We cannot continue on the current path of education if we want to prepare our children for their future. Our children will not live in the world that we grew up in. We need to prepare them to be flexible, critical thinking, problem solvers.
The shift that should take place in education is to teach students the skills to responsibly and critically access that content in order to create additional content.
bulk of the information exchange available on Twitter for instance comes in the form of links, or URL’s, which are internet addresses to pages of information.
Twitter offers us is the ability to respond to ideas and have a general discussion about those responses.
A big, big Twitter plus is the access educators have to education experts.
gateway to many free online webinars and online conference
On Twitter there are constant discussions and references to pedagogy and methodology in education
Twitter is only one source for teachers to connect. It is the easiest to use, and the hardest to understand. Teachers need to get started connecting to other teachers
There are few questions that I get from teachers about social media, or sources that I haven't gotten in some form before over the last three or four years. Two similar questions that I get with frequency are: How do you know all that stuff?
Writing for an audience of only one is a tedious process. This is the preferred method in education. The writer needs to wait for the composition to be graded
technology needs not to be in discussions of education, but rather in how will the education of any kid be applied in an ever-evolving, technology-driven world in which tour kids will be required to live.