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Each of my fantastic 4th graders has his/her own Twitter space in our classroom:
At the end of each day, we take time to reflect on our learning and our day's events. We think about our "aha" moments and we record our homework in our agenda books. Using the document camera, I model this process in my own agenda book.
We then do a "think - pair - share" activity in which they share what their tweet will be before they write it down. This helps the students who feel "stuck" and are unsure of what to tweet.
This daily reflection has been so powerful! Knowing that their "tweets" must be brief reminds my students that they must get to the point. No rambling aloud! :-)
Those who tend to want to include lots of details when summarizing are forced to think about the most important information, and not all the "fluff!" This has been an incredible summarizing exercise.
I didn't realize that our individual tweets would be such effective tools for absent students. When students arrive to school after an absence, the first thing they do in the morning is check our tweet chart! So cool!
Dr. James MacLeod, Professor of History at the University of Evansville, visited us and taught us about his journey to become a U.S. citizen. We had fun sending him a note of thanks via Twitter!
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