The first one is the Periodic Table of iPad Apps (please click here for a high revolution version). It divides 82 Apps into eight categories associated instruction: creativity, demonstrating, learning, teaching, computing, collaboration, numeracy, and literacy. Checking familiar social media Apps in this table, we could find that:
Twitter is good for teaching;
Edmodo and Pinterst are good for collaboration;
Interestingly, Facebook is not in the category of collaboration of the table.
The second one is the Padagogy Wheel 4.0 (please click here for a high revolution version), which based on Bloom's Taxonomy, i.e., understanding, remembering, applying, analyzing, evaluation, and creating. Also, some familiar social media Apps are also in the wheel:
Twitter is good for remembering and understanding;
Facebook, YouTube, Edmodo, and Blackboard are good for evaluation.
Through combining the two graphs, I am curious why Twitter is considered for one-way learning, e.g., teaching, remembering, and understanding, rather than two-way communication. And due to the limit of 140 characters (I guess), Twitter is not considered to be highly used for evaluation as Facebook and YouTube.
I'm guessing the creators felt twitter is only good for making announcements and sending reminder. Perhaps they've not experienced a twitter chat?
ReplyDeleteThat is a good explanation.
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