Tweet to Text Strategy Reflection

Overall I believe this strategy is a fun way to incorporate what students are interested in into the classroom. Most students either have a twitter or at least know how the twitter format works. This can allow students to become more invested in the assignment or lesson because they feel more connected to how they are learning their class material. I think it is important to note that this strategy could be more useful in classrooms that have reading material and can help the students summarize what they have read in a concise, short and simple way. It also could be used as a way to discuss silently. Students could tweet and/or like certain tweets they agree with and even comment on actual twitter or comment on the tweets posted around the room, as they would if they were to like or comment on any tweet on twitter.

During our lesson plan, our class thoroughly enjoyed the concept of text to tweet. However, we had some areas we could have grown in. In the beginning our lesson was seen as a little confusing and in part, it was because we had to make a math lesson into a text. Some students would rather us explain what is being asked of them rather than have them read what is being asked of them. We could have had a short mini lesson on how PEMDAS works and then have them take what they learned from lesson and tweet. However, in other subject areas you could easily give students a passage and then have them summarize what they read. There would be less activating prior knowledge this way, but also can ease them into how tweet to text works.

Lesson plan is a fun interactive way that keeps all students involved and connected to the lesson and class text. The students thoroughly enjoyed the format of the challenge of only using 140 characters and having the twitter format. The lesson also went well because students could see if they achieved the right answer because it was written on the back; however we didn't tell them until they had completed the PEMDAS equation. Overall, the lesson plan went over well and can be used in multiple different settings with different texts!!

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