Twitter Rocking Your Students’ Learning

Khitam Al-UtaibiiEARN-Jordan Representative

6th Annual “Shaping The Way We Teach” Conference

“Meeting the Social and Psychological Needs of our Students: The Shifting Roles of Teachers in the Classroom”

#twitter #education #socialpsychologicalneedsAmerican Language Center

January 24th , 2014

Session Agenda{90 minutes}

# Activity Time1 Introduction to some uses for Twitter in education 52 Teaming up the participants according to teams according to Hogan

Personality Inventory 5

3 Each team is no more than 3 people. 54 Our assigned #hashtag for the session to track the tweets #t1alc14 45 Tweeting idioms in classroom. Teams will tweet their answers on five

to ten common idioms in English. 35

6 Each team summarizes main ideas inspired from the activity on the white board 7

7 How to use Twitter as a searching tool. 78 “Meeting the Social and Psychological Needs of Students and how the

Shifting Roles of Teachers in the Classroom” change the way learning occurs

12

9 Wrapping up the session with Q&A 10

Main Objectives

• Learning by doing the know how to use Twitter in

educational setting for language arts

• Experience the class interaction through team work,

verbal communication, etc.

• Twitter as a search tool

A. What is Twitter? … is a service for friends, family, and co-workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers. … is ‘digital communication’. … is network formed around a shared interest. www.dontwasteyourtime.co.uk

B. How Can I Use Twitter? You have 140 characters (including spaces) to say what you have to say. You can ‘follow’ people and what they say, they can follow you and what you say. You can connect with anyone, for any reason, at any time. www.dontwasteyourtime.co.uk

C. Terminology Tweet : an individual post. RT (Retweet) : re-telling someone else’s tweet. @username : open message to specific person. Message : Direct message a follower (private) #Hashtag : Use Hashtag to group & track discussions (conference, seminar, classroom activity, etc.) www.dontwasteyourtime.co.uk

What Twitter IS

The HPI measures normal personality along seven primary scales:

Adjustment: confidence, self-esteem, and composure under pressure

Ambition: initiative, competitiveness, and desire for leadership roles

Sociability: extraversion, gregarious, and need for social interaction

Interpersonal Sensitivity: tact, perceptiveness, and ability to maintain relationships

Prudence: self-discipline, responsibility and conscientiousness

Inquisitive: imagination, curiosity, and creative potential

Learning Approach: achievement-oriented, stays up-to-date on business and technical matters

The Hogan Personality Inventory

describes normal, or bright-side personality – the strengths and

weaknesses people display when they are at their best. Bright-side

personality characteristics dictate to which psychological role an

individual will be drawn.

Adjustment

Ambition

SociabilityInterpersonal

Sensitivity

PrudenceInquisitive

Learning Approach

Teaming

Terminology You Must Know About Twitter

Round 1/ Idioms#t1alc14

1. Piece of cake • when someone says that the assignment they

just finished was a piece of cake, it does not mean that their professor gave them a red velvet cupcake for their midterm paper, what piece of cake actually means is that something is very easy to complete.

Round 1/ Idioms#t1alc14

2. Costs an arm and a leg • It would be a strange world we lived in if

buying that fancy shiny purse literally required us to chop off our body parts to give as tribute to the Louis Vuitton gods. When something costs an arm and a leg it actually means that something is very expensive.

Round 1/ Idioms#t1alc14

3. Hit the nail on the head• This idiom has to do with doing or saying

something that is precisely right. If you don’t understand this, just think about that sweet feeling you get when you swing a hammer at a nail and hit it perfectly.

Round 1/ Idioms#t1alc14

4. Describe the bold!a. He was all ears when his boss

talked.

b. His comments threw a wet blanket on the discussion.

c. If you understand immediately what someone is trying to say, they might say to you "Got it in ___ ."

a. {Listening carefully}

b. {discouraged}

c. {One}

Round 2/ Images#t1alc14

1. The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Where is it located? Located in New York City, New York, USAIt is the largest art museum in the United States, and one of the ten largest in the world, with the most significant art collections.

Round 2/ Images#t1alc14

• Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables users to send and read "tweets", which are text messages limited to 140 characters. Registered users can read and post tweets, but unregistered users can only read them. The default settings for Twitter are public, anyone can follow anyone on publicTwitter. To weave tweets into a conversation thread or connect them to a general topic, members can add hashtags# to a keyword in their post.

2. Define Twitter

Round 2/ Images#t1alc14

• Ayah from the Holy Quran,

• Calligraphy,

• Manuscript

3. Describe the image.

Round 3/ Inspiration#t1alc14

To whom would you write this message, and with who you want to get back together?

Twitter as a searching tool

By word

Word with use of @

Word with use of #hashtags

Search exercise

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

When applied to student learning…

Social

To be accepted by other students

Self-esteem

Respect between students and between students

and the teacher

Psychological Need!

An inherent source of motivation that

generates the desire to interact with the

environment so as to advance personal

growth, social development, and

psychological well-being. Based on Reeve (2009, pp. 142-143)

Social Media Fulfilling Social And Psychological Needs

Core Academics

• Reading• Writing• Arithmetic

• Critical thinking & problem solving

• Communication• Collaboration• Creativity and

Innovation

21st Century Skills

The Three Rs and the Four Cs

21st Century Learning Environments

6th Annual “Shaping The Way We Teach” Conference

“Meeting the Social and Psychological Needs of our Students: The Shifting Roles of Teachers in the Classroom”

Twitter Rocking Your Students’ Learning

American Language Center

January 24th , 2014 Scoring Sheet

Questions Answers Score

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