Teaching Tots to Twitter Instills Love of Writing: Part II Transform Teaching With Twitter - The Educator's PLN

Teaching Tots to Twitter Instills Love of Writing: Part II Transform Teaching With Twitter - The Educator's PLN:

Teaching Tots to Twitter Instills Love of Writing: Part II Transform Teaching With Twitter

by Ary Aranguiz

If students learn to tweet in the primary grades, is it possible we may begin to see an improvement over time in students' writing skills and overall attitude toward writing? I believe Twitter, if properly implemented, can support writing and reading instruction and promote a love of writing. Twitter in the elementary classroom can be essential for establishing the mind-set for students that they all have something worthwhile to say in writing, and there are actual readers of all ages, i.e., parents, family, teachers, administrators and even other students, who are eager to read what they say.  For various reasons, writing can be a difficult task for so many students, and for teachers it is often difficult to teach, but what if Twitter served as a teaching aid to motivate reluctant writers and thinkers. What if students had daily Twitter tasks to show them at an early age that:

• writing allows us to express our thoughts, emotions, experiences, imaginations, etc.
• writing allows us to connect with others.
• writing does not have to be perfect; we can always correct our errors.