Twitter...

Within that last few weeks I have heard Twitter mentioned endlessly and I was clueless every time. I am not very good at keeping up with the technical world and so it takes awhile for me to catch on. Because I knew nothing about this new system of networking I decided to learn of it...Its an interesting concept. I do not understand why someone should need to know what a person is doing every second of the day. The only realistic benefit I see is for a kid to use Twitter to inform both parent of their whereabouts. Within the classroom, this could be used to remind student's when an assignment is due. Because they are probably already looking at updates from friends, it would be likely that they would see the reminder for assignments. This could help students and their grades. However, it is maybe crossing the line and 'babysitting' the students too much. It is lessening their responsibilities as a student, and if we continue to do this as teachers than we will be harming our students. Maybe students could use it peer-to-peer in reminding each other for tests and group assignments...Looking at my other group mates blogs (I felt like a stalker a little bit), but saw that they are doing great work and have made some good insights). I finally figured out how to "follow" their blog as well, so I guess you could say I'm making improvements!