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In the infographic, it is stated that " 98% of college students own a digital device" and "3 of 4 students say they wouldn't be able to study without technology". Based on these findings, I can suggest that Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) can be a promising trend since students can study in classroom environment with their own technologies.

I agree with this infographic. Technology is the most important way to capture the attention of today's students.

I agree with you, Ceren. Increased student achievement as a consequence of use of Twitter in classes is interesting. I would like to give an example how it can occur. Students can use Twitter to write their short reflections about a topic they learnt in class. It may increase students' engagement in lessons outside of the class and as a result it may foster learning.

Bunch of inspiring ideas to use Twitter for educational contexts. I've been benefiting from a couple of them in my classes, and I safely assert that Twitter increases interaction of the students, if properly used.

Investing heavily in school computers and classroom technology does not improve pupils' performance, says a global study from the OECD. The think tank says frequent use of computers in schools is more likely to be associated with lower results. The OECD's education director Andreas Schleicher says school technology had raised "too many false hopes".

I think the report does not show that technology is useless, but shows that we still need enourmous work on learning and teaching effective use of it. Here is another piece of news showing many teachers use technology for teacher-centered, traditional education. It brought my mind the concept of "teacher effect" that we talked in the class. " Why Ed Tech Is Not Transforming How Teachers Teach" http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2015/06/11/why-ed-tech-is-not-transforming-how.html?cmp=ew-tc15-eml&utm_content=buffer3067c&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

we all know that social media have huge effect on leaners life so it should be used in and out class activitiesand twitter is the most famous one that can be used in classes. this gives a lot of ways of twitter usage.

"The classroom of the future probably won't be led by a robot with arms and legs, but it may be guided by a digital brain." This article seems to be pretty much related to our in-class discussion today. P.S. I have come across this while browsing Twitter via the hashtag #engchat. Thanks for the hashtag list guys!

A new way to debate! They may find more evidence about their claim of course if this is not considered as cheating. :)

Murat, this is interesting. I plan to conduct similar experiment in my class using Twitter for debating. There are some examples out there!

I could not tweet because of the problems in my Twitter account; that is why, I would like to share the resources I have found here. :) This research study aims to learn about classroom teachers point of views about FATIH Project. Half of the teachers think that the project will be a failure because of technical problems of tablets, lack of teacher's technological competency and the training of teachers. However, they think that the project may help students in terms of not carrying heavy bags and providing a better, tehcnology-enriched learning atmosphere.

Here comes an infograph about social media on campus, with pros, cons and overall impact

From this infographic, it can be concluded that flipped learning method can be adopted by teachers for all age groups, it can be applied for all education levels, and it bring positive outcomes such as increased student engagement and improved grades.

I have heard "Sophia" and searched for it but I couldn't find. To see it here made me happy, thank you for sharing this, it helped to understand flipped classroom better :)

The infographic is about how teachers can integrate Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Youtube and Wordpress into education.It suggests that there are four dimensions. They are connect, notify, teach and curate.

The tips in this infographic are really good Ecenaz. Thank you for sharing them. In my opinion, the best thing about it is that the tips are highly integrable for all disciplines.

Ece, this is a very helpful guide for teachers on how to use social media in classroom.