Teaching in Higher Ed

Teaching in Higher Ed


#057: Teaching with Twitter [PODCAST]

July 16, 2015

You would be surprised how much can be done through 140 characters. In today’s episode, 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