Twitter in Teaching and Learning

Twitter can be used very efficiently in education. In teaching it can be used  to give info about class room activity, seminar discussions, conference informations as well as assignment deadlines etc etc.  Also if there is one scientist who is doing an important research, then he can share all the info by tweeting and people who are interested in his work can follow that person for immediate updates.  They can even reply to the tweets.

If one wants to share a great resource about one course, they can just tweet it, and people who follow him/her can get the info very quickly.Teachers can also perform live quiz with twitter, and all students can reply to the tweet. It will be a very fun way of learning. If any one shared an important news, then it can be retweeted by other so that more tweeple can get the news.

By using Hashtags (#) number of tweeple (the people who tweet) can join in the discussion. By this one can get inspired and get new ideas. And one great thing about tweeting is, people can share information with very few characters from any where from iPhone to iPad or from any other mobile devices. 

Teachers are increasingly bringing the real-time communication power of Twitter into the classroom to help students learn. 

The use of Twitter in education can be summarized as below:

• Internet resources like Twitter give students access to information — more importantly, perhaps — to people beyond the classroom walls. Students can post inquiries online and receive responses in real- or near real-time.
• A Twitter account for a school or a teacher can be another means (and a paperless one at that) to communicate information to parents on things like events and deadlines.
•   Twitter has become a key tool for creating personal learning networks, enabling anyone to build their own connections with other Twitter users, sharing learning resources and support. 
• People use Twitter to communicate, to ask questions, to ask for directions, support, advice, and to validate open-ended interpretations or ides by discussing with others.
• Twitter has mashed up personal publishing and communication, the result being a new type of real-time publishing.Each user is able to monitor the notes of other users, who will be listed inthe profile, under Following. Thus the user becomes Follower for them.