Cellphones, ipads and laptops have found important place in a teenager's life. And they don't skip taping their smartphones or ipads even in their classrooms.
In general when you are caught tapping your smartphone in the classroom, you may directly end up to the Principal's cabin and sometimes even with parents. But Legaspi, a teacher for eight years and a technology enthusiast has found it useful and he continuously encourages this as long as you use twitter on your devices.
As per him, teachers are trying to implement twitter into classrooms since long but the site adoption is still very limited. Only 2% of educational institutions are using micro-blogging sites like twitter and others. While talking about its effect on students, Legaspiwas very energized to state that using twitter like sites provide them a global exposure and to think beyond the limits.
Legaspi is very hopeful about the application of twitter in classroom as this will not only raise the competition in between students but it will also rapid up the learning process.
For the demonstration, Legaspi stood in front of a projected screen discussing the death toll from World War I. When he asked the classroom how many people died in that conflict, several tweets started showing up on his screen with various answers.
Even students and their parents have praised the process and they find it a great way to make other notice you and it helped kids find their voice. Specially for those students who are not that active in classrooms and don't share what lies in their mind are opening up themselves on twitter.
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