Teaching with Twitter

Teaching in Higher Ed

Jesse Stommel, shares about how he enhances his teaching with Twitter.

Podcast notes

Teaching with Twitter

• Guest: Jesse Stommel
• About Hybrid Pedagogy

Twitter basics

• Getting started with Twitter
• Jesse’s blog post: Teaching with Twitter
• Twitter Pedagogy: An educator down the Twitter rabbit hole, by Kelsey Schmitz
• The rules of Twitter, by Dorothy Kim

Jesse’s background

When I grew up, I always wanted to have my own school… [Hybrid Pedagogy] is not really as much a repository for articles, but a space for community and for engaging. – Jesse Stommel

Was recently in Canada for the Digital Humanities Summer Institute, where he broke his ankle

On kindness

Kindness is what drives my pedagogy. It’s about seeing people for who they really are and engaging with their full selves. – Jesse Stommel

Part of [kindness] is also about bringing your full self to the relationship you have with your coworkers, your students, and [other collaborators] that you use as a guiding ethic. – Jesse Stommel

What the 140 limitation does

The constraints of Twitter are also its affordances. Being asked to take an idea and put it in this constrained linguistic space of 140 characters forces us to think about and question our thinking in ways we wouldn’t otherwise. – Jesse Stommel

Twitter allows for improvisation within a framework

What students should know

Twitter lets us play out our ideas

Twitter is a space for trying out ideas. It encourages us to iterate… – Jesse Stommel

[Twitter] is like a tool in the way that a pencil is a tool. A tool that lots of people can use for lots of different reasons. It becomes this platform that you can use in different ways and environments. – Jesse Stommel

Conversation with Steve Wheeler re: digital natives on episode 38

Literacies

Each person has to find a different relationship to these tools and build their own self inside of the network. – Jesse Stommel

Privacy literacy

Anyone who imagines that they can become private just with the flip of a switch is not really understanding how these networks work. – Jesse Stommel

Reflections on Teaching in Higher Ed episode 31 on the social network Yik Yak

Creative ways to teach with Twitter

• Twitter vs Zombies
  • Pete Rorabaugh and Jesse Stommel share about Twitter vs Zombies with GamifiED OOC

• The Twitter essay, by Jesse Stommel
• 12 Steps for designing an assignment, by Jesse Stommel (slide show that addresses some of the questions around how to grade these types of assignments)

Some things need to be public. – Jesse Stommel

Canvassers study in episode #555 of This American Life has been retracted

He was peer-reviewing my tweets before I sent each one out [at our wedding]… – Jesse Stommel

Today I’m live-tweeting my wedding to Joshua Lee. Because some things need to be public.

— Jesse Stommel (@Jessifer) June 13, 2014

I want my students to know someone in a place that is so different than the place that they are in. – Jesse Stommel

• Maha Bali in Egypt on Twitter
• Tweetdeck
• Net Smart by Howard Rheingold

Recommendations

Bonni recommends:

• Teaching with Twitter class, via Hybrid Pedagogy, taught by Jesse

Jesse recommends:

• Net Smart by Howard Rheingold
• Jesse on Twitter
• Hybrid Pedagogy

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