Twitter offers authentic school content from authors, scientists, historians, college professors, astronauts, poets and more. You can connect your classroom to a different culture. Using it as a communication tool, teachers and students from around the world can collaborate on projects, that helps simultaneously educate students in different classroom and cultural protocols.
Create a class Twitter account and follow hashtags that match your curriculum. Have your students discover different perspectives from other learners around the world about topics you are discussing in class. Follow or tweet with an educational hashtag and engage your students in a global discussion! For example, #astronomy #fractions #sciencechat #monarchbutterfly #mathchat #moonphase #solarsystem and so on... Follow and/or tweet to an author, poet, astronaut, musician, scientist, etc. Almost every educational company, institution, museum, institute, etc., is on Twitter and tweeting out excellent resources and information every day. The information is current, relevant and will most likely inspire conversation and literacy! @WorldEricCarle @jk_rowling @PatriciaPolacco @roald_dahl @LibertySciCtr @smithsonian Twitter Resources:
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Instagram is one of the most popular social media channels and there are lots of ways to use it in the classroom!
It's important to protect students' privacy. If you're interested in trying any of the ideas below, be sure to let your administration know that you are planning to use Instagram with your students. Please refer to your web non-consent list in your class when posting pictures of students who may or may not have consent. We recommend creating a classroom account that you set to "private" and carefully vet any potential followers. Integration Ideas:
Follow some great teacher instagram pages for ideas & resources here. This is a great article on Education Week on How to Use Instagram in the Classroom. |