Connecting the classroom to the "real world"
Tweeting Students Earn Higher Grades
To the extent that tweeting during and outside of class can make students more engaged, I am not surprised to learn that it might lead to better outcomes. I know that when I attend conferences where I am able to tweet the highlights of each session I pay closer attention to the topic. It keeps my mind from wandering to other things outside of the class I’m attending.
This being the case, it is interesting to me that so many faculty continue to ban the use of laptops and phones in class. There are too many instructors stuck in the “we didn’t use them when I was in school” world.
