If I am going to be honest with Twitter, I usually like it. The term usually is key, I love looking at other peoples tweets, their tweet bring me slight joy and I am glad to be caught up on everything but I despise tweeting on it myself, I feel like I can never think of anything to share, even on Feedly, and when I do I have no idea what to share about the link or tool I am sharing. I often don’t mind commenting on other peoples tweets as it comes from the heart with what I am writing to them. After EDTC 300 ended I was glad to take a break from tweeting, I didn’t feel stressed to find content and have to share multiple things per day. I could only imagine what a blogger or content creator feels like and you won’t be seeing me doing it.
Twitter has a lot of potential for being a professional development tool. I personally would not use it in my classroom as students may feel more pressured to use it then to willingly use it. With that being said I would teach students about their digital identity, digital citizenship, and digital literacy. Showing them the benefits to using twitter and other major platforms, along with where to be cautious in posting things. Giving them the idea to grow their PLN in a positive way throughout high school rather than just University and that’s something I wish I was taught about. Last night we participated in another Saskedchat, I had previously done one last semester in EDTC 300 and it was a lot of fun. This week we touched on mental health, which is an extremely important conversation to have. I really enjoyed reading everyone's ideas, seeing how similar everyone's answers were. Mental health is slowly breaking through stigmas and it's important to continue the conversation to further that breakthrough. It was also interesting to see everyone's perspective on what can/should be done for mental health awareness in the classroom and amongst other teachers/staff.
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