Reflection on Twitterchat

Recently, I have joined the Twitterchat called Educational Technology Chat on Monday. In the Chat, the topic is education on bad weather. At present, many places in US are snowing and some schools are closed for several days. Therefore, teachers are discussing how to use educational technology to help students study when they cannot come to school. The first question is that have you continued work with students during weather situations? Why or Why not? Some teachers suggest that we can use mobile phone to give students assignments. A math teacher gives us some interesting advice. He says: “ I use a blended model in math. It helps for those that are out, i.e. independent study so they don't fall behind.” And I have asked a question in the chat, “when using educational technologies such as Twitter, PPT, etc, which level of students do you think are suitable for? Why and why not?

       I think it is a good form for my future professional development. In Twitterchat, there are many colleagues. Therefore, we can search for help when we meet some teaching problems. In addition, we can read other’s tweets and learn some possible problems which we may meet in the future. Most importantly, we can learn some questions which I have never thought about, for example, the topic of this week.