Twitter in the classroom

Education Week picked up a Tribune article about two Glen Ellyn 1st grade teachers using Twitter in the classroom. In one classroom the end-of-day class meeting is a Twitter session where kids tweet. The teacher says that it keeps communication open with parents and helps children learn typing, spelling, and reading. Another teacher who has her kids blogging says that it's important because kids see this as a thing that adults do and that it's a way to teach young children that computers are not just about games.

ESpark founder David Vinci is quoted.

"twitter evolves as tool for little ones to tweet about class activities" by Michelle Manchir