21st Century Learning and Teaching

Objections to Twitter are usually along the lines of “What can you say in 140 characters?” “It’s all about celebrities and what they had for breakfast”; “it’s full of racist trolls”; “it’s a trivial medium – what could it possibly offer me, or teaching and learning?"

This is the image problem that Twitter has with a lot of academic staff – they just don’t see the point. I do sense a switch in this attitude though, as more and more academics start to use it, and they see their peers using it, and their students, and their institutions.

===> What they will find, once they dip their toes is that it is an incredibly useful medium for teaching, learning and research. <===