She was amazed both this year and in 2009 at the low number of students who used Twitter before they took her class. In January 2009, she asked students in a 100-person class to raise their hands if they had a Twitter account. Not one hand went up.
“You have a misconception about who’s sitting there in a lecture hall,” she says. “There’s a mythology about how this current generation of students is fully wired and that they know everything about any electronic device and about all of the social networking tools. It’s not true.”
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The Super-Secret, Never-Before-Revealed Guide to Web 2.0 in the Classroom -- Campus Tec... - 0 views
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some helpful links within the story and generally good overall--mimics what we are doing to some extent.
Bird Class Tweets Sightings « UConn Today - 1 views
News: The Web of Babel - Inside Higher Ed - 2 views
Building a Better Backchannel (THATCamp Report) - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher ... - 0 views
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Mark Sample on "building a better backchannel"
Topsy Searches Twitter Better Than Twitter - NYTimes.com - 2 views
Twitter Rubric - 2 views
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