Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Using Twitter for reflection

Reflecting on … Using Twitter for reflection

Preparation – ensure both teachers and students have the technology available to set up and use a twitter account.

Purpose:

To reflect on practice using Twitter.

Learning outcomes:

By the end of this activity, participants will be able to:

Develop their capacity to reflect on their own teaching or the teaching of others
Record those reflections and share them with others
Identify strengths in their teaching and areas for development
Act on the learning gained from this reflection

Resources needed:

Twitter account / s

Activity:

Part 1 – Individual work

This activity may need to take place over a series of sessions

Ensure all protocols relating to online behaviour / language are clear to all participants

Ensure enough Twitter accounts are created for a group of people to use, and that all are following each other.
Tweet about an incident from your teaching, or a teaching topic
Respond to replies / tweets from others
Use the Reflective Practice generic questions to guide your reflection

Part 2 – Plenary

Discuss the results (use an archiving tool with support from your tutor) which were produced
Discuss what difference the online element made to the reflection, and in particular the small amount of words available.

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