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Tweeting for class: using social media to enable student co-construction of lectures

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Daniela Retelny,

Jeremy Birnholtz,

Jeffrey HancockAuthors Info & Claims

CSCW '12: Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work Companion

Pages 203 - 206

https://doi.org/10.1145/2141512.2141578

Published: 11 February 2012 Publication History

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Motivating students to be active in learning is a perennial problem in education. We describe our experience using Twitter for student "co-construction" of lecture materials. Students were required to tweet prior to each lecture related to that day's topic. These tweets - consisting of questions, examples and reflections - were incorporated into the lecture slides. Students reported that they found lectures including their tweets in class to be engaging, interactive and relevant, and nearly 90% of them recommended we use our co-construction approach again. Future iterations of this model could streamline the process by using automated processing and aggregation of tweets and/or having students in the class responsible for this.

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CSCW '12: Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work Companion

February 2012

388 pages

ISBN:9781450310512

DOI:10.1145/2141512

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Steven Poltrock
Boeing Research & Technology
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University of Milano-Biccoca
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Microsoft Research
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Gloria Mark
University of California, Irvine
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University of Minnesota

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Rodriguez-Triana MPrieto LHolzer AGillet D(2020)Instruction, Student Engagement, and Learning Outcomes: A Case Study Using Anonymous Social Media in a Face-to-Face ClassroomIEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies10.1109/TLT.2020.299555713:4(718-733)Online publication date: 1-Oct-2020
https://doi.org/10.1109/TLT.2020.2995557
Govaerts SHolzer AKocher BVozniuk AGarbinato BGillet D(2018)Blending Digital and Face-to-Face Interaction Using a Co-Located Social Media App in ClassIEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies10.1109/TLT.2018.285680411:4(478-492)Online publication date: 1-Oct-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/TLT.2018.2856804
Xu YHolzer AMaitland CGillet DSaif U(2017)Community Building with Co-located Social MediaProceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development10.1145/3136560.3136580(1-11)Online publication date: 16-Nov-2017
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3136560.3136580
Rodríguez-Triana MHolzer APrieto LGillet D(2016)Examining the Effects of Social Media in Co-located Classrooms: A Case Study Based on SpeakUpAdaptive and Adaptable Learning10.1007/978-3-319-45153-4_19(247-262)Online publication date: 7-Sep-2016
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