This blog entry will focus on Twitter as a mobile application and how it can help people learn.
As of February 2009, only about 18% of Twitter users accessed via mobile device. However, in the first half of 2009, access to Twitter's site via mobile increased by a whopping 3500%. In the future, we may see a majority of people tweeting and reading tweets via mobile devices, esp. if devices like this Twitter Phone start selling.
EDUCATIONAL IDEAS
For collaborating with other students on Twitter, tweets will need to include hashtags, which are specific words or symbols that each person in the group adds to each of his/her tweets (e.g., #thisisahashtag).
Here are some possible educational ideas to use Twitter via mobile devices:
- Tweet ideas to your group or class during off-school hours from anywhere.
- During a field trip, have students tweet observations.
- Group research project - a group of students can separate and visit remote locations (library, museum, other school, etc.) and then tweet back anything of interest to the rest of the group.
- During an event, students can tweet comments about the event live from the event location.
- Conduct an educational treasure hunt. This video below shows an example of Tony Hawk's treasure hunt where he hid 60 skateboards in different locations all throughout the world and then tweeted hints to their locations. A Twitter treasure hunt can be easily made into an educational activity by creating educational puzzles to serve as clues to each piece of treasure.
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