This week I’m using twitter to try and find information on
the latest craze, the balance board aka the hover board. My son wants one for
Christmas and I want to know spending at least £250 on a piece of plastic on
wheels is worth it! Using the hashtag BalanceBoard I found plenty of advertisement
for it and several companies trying to sell their stock via Twitter using
videos and offering discount, but it’s hard to find specifications. The price
of a balance board varies widely, but unfortunately using Twitter, I can’t find
what the most expensive ones have to offer that the cheaper ones don’t for them
to justify the price difference and I’ll have to find that information
elsewhere. If I looked elsewhere such as google, I’d probably get all the
information in one place.
Social media is
obviously very popular amongst teenagers and I believe Twitter could be a
modern tool used for educational purposes such as tweets from teachers
reminding the class and their parents about assignment deadlines or to remember
their p.e kit. It could be used to keep parents informed whilst their children
are on school trips or even to produce a mathematical graph using trends. If Twitter
is not already widely used in schools I’m sure it will be in the near future.
Twitter is also used in higher education as method of research.
Twournal Of was the world’s first twitter only academic journal and although
some might be sceptical
“Studies show how tweeting out papers and research findings
can boost citation count” (Miah, 2014)
Although it probably isn’t the first place I’d look to do
any research, I will keep an open mind about it and will probably use it in the
future to see if it can be useful to my studies.
Doesn't sound like any of us are the biggest fans of twitter. I agree with you that google would be your best bet for finding all of that information out. You also have some good points with how twitter can be used in education.
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