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Does (the Use of)Twitter Improve Education?

Does (the Use of)Twitter Improve Education? | Leadership Think Tank | Scoop.it

"There has been post after post acknowledging how educators love Twitter while also encouraging others to use it themselves. With that though comes skeptics (as there should be), questioning whether the use of Twitter is beneficial to educators. I have thought about that question a lot and I can give a definitive answer: yes and no ( I am 100% certain of this).

 

So to prove this, we have to look at a few things. First off, we have to look at how educators are using Twitter. Simply signing up for Twitter doesn’t improve anything in your classroom (similar to the notion that having a Twitter account will make people do inappropriate things and cyberbully). It all comes down to the use of it. I offer two scenarios in my own use of Twitter below."


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15 Reasons Reformers Are Looking to Finland - Online Universities

15 Reasons Reformers Are Looking to Finland - Online Universities | Leadership Think Tank | Scoop.it
Read on to learn why so many education reformers are enamored with Finnish education and what their system can teach us about reforming our own.

Why are people looking at Finland? Their students have "consistently scored near or at the top of international assessments regardless of economic or social background, despite spending fewer hours in school that their American counterparts."

Some of the 15 points listed are below, and each point is followed with additional information.

* Schools don't assign much homework.

* Classwork focuses on creativity.

* All schools in Finland are public schools.

* Finland is all about cooperation in education, not competition.


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