Thing #17- Twitter in the Classroom

Twitter could be used in the classroom as part of a PBL or a blended learning activity. I know while reading novels in Reading/Language Arts, the students could tweet their journal entries to the teacher. They could also tweet notes about the novel to the entire class. The teacher could answer questions by tweeting. The use of Twitter could encourage more reserved students to blossom through the use of this social media tool. The use would have to be closely monitored. It could also be used to create tweets from deceased famous people to try and recreate past events and understand them from a different point of view.