Twitter: a tool for a new generation of academic conversation or Not? (Updated)
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Should we not leave Twitter out as a tool for a new generation of academic conversation? A brief piece from The Chronicle of Higher Education reports on how Ed Techie, an education blogger, finds On Twitter, Academic Debates Fall Short. Note: Comments on the The Chronicle of Higher Education post, include suggestions for sharpening the use of Twitter for such excercises. Read all about it (and more) on Ed Techie’s blog.
What do you think of Twitter as a tool for educational conversation AND creating virality in education? Something you’d be interested in trying w/ESN?
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I must admit that I can’t see any valuable purpose for Twitter, academic or otherwise, but I’m becoming a grouchy old man, so what do I know.
In all seriousness though, Twitter is too limited by length of comments; real dialog needs complete arguments. I think it is a (sad) sign of the times that people want information only in bite-size bits. A good argument cannot be made out of bite-size bits.
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Lhynard
9 Feb 09 at 11:40 pm