Tuesday, October 18, 2016
Blog about Twitter
Since twitter limits you to 140 characters, your posts have to be short and sweet. Compared to a discussion on Blackboard or an in class discussion, Twitter forces you to condense your portion of the discussion and solidify your main point. Twitter also allows for easier communication as a class because you can directly reply to another one of your classmates' comments, whereas, if it were an in class discussion, people would have to wait their turn and some of the things that they might want to say will be lost in the changing of the conversation. However, it is less practical to use Twitter to communicate a necessary long or lengthy conversation, such as your feelings towards a specific person or idea because you will not be able to fully express yourself within the limited characters, and also because it will be difficult for six or seven people to respond to the same six or seven people if they had something to say to each person. Twitter is like a simplified version of Blackboard discussions in my opinion, and it is much easier to communicate in person or on Blackboard if you expect to have a long conversation/discussion about one topic.
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I agree about the your response Twitter. Indeed, Twitter forces you to be more specific on different parts of your general ideas. But, the problem is you're not able to communicate your ideas or feelings with another individual for good lengthy amount of time. Also, it may get somewhat sloppy because many other individuals may retweet the same response and can lead to massive confusion. Likewise, I would prefer using Twitter only for topics not relating to educational purposes such as sports, entertainment, music, and may more. Blackboard is more intended for your academic studies because you can communicate or collaborate with other students about classwork, in class discussions, homework and many more college related stuff.
ReplyDeleteI share some of the same sentiments as Jeffrey regarding Twitter and education. I believe Twitter is better suited for casual conversation. I do, however, believe that there is some place for Twitter in the education world. Twitter can be used as a sort of "after-class" conversation starter where students can share articles or retweet other tweets related to the class. Of course, this would be hard to facilitate in a class like science or math where there is not really an exchange of ideas and opinions like in philosophy or english classes.
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