Communication tools, if nothing else, help to ensure students' engagement in the connected classroom. I have a renewed perspective of tools, such as Twitter, that help to enhance how students learn within the classroom. It also eliminates the age-old role of the teacher as the dispenser of knowledge, and now as a facilitator of knowledge. With time, I can see my students using such technologies within the classroom to help their peers and themselves. I especially liked the CNN news article with the use of Twitter to aid shy students. This eliminates the notion that not because a child says nothing means that he has nothing to say. I observed that the right outlet would change the child's perspective of himself and other students' perspective of him. This activity was definitely an eye-opener.
Utica Christian
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