To Tweet or Not To Tweet? Social Media in the Classroom

This piece argues that new technologies generally, and social media in particular, are too often accepted uncritically and incorporated hastily into course designs for the humanities. The author encourages teachers to ask two basic questions when considering social media in the classroom: 1. Does so...

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1. VerfasserIn: LoRusso, James Dennis (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Equinox 2014
In: Bulletin for the study of religion
Jahr: 2014, Band: 43, Heft: 1, Seiten: 40-41
weitere Schlagwörter:B Classroom Technology
B Pedagogy
B Social Media
B Twitter
B Facebook
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Zusammenfassung:This piece argues that new technologies generally, and social media in particular, are too often accepted uncritically and incorporated hastily into course designs for the humanities. The author encourages teachers to ask two basic questions when considering social media in the classroom: 1. Does social media actually improve the learning process? And 2. How are these technologies embedded in the larger socio-economic context?
ISSN:2041-1871
Enthält:Enthalten in: Bulletin for the study of religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1558/bsor.v43i1.40