To Tweet or not to Tweet?

Elijah Heron- Jia
Jul 22, 2017 · 2 min read

I grew up in a time where Bebo and Facebook were the leading social medias. I always knew about twitter but I assumed it was used as a media platform for famous celebrities. Twitter is a relatively new Personal Learning Network (PLN) platform for me. Twitter is a much less personal approach to networking with people. It requires less personal things to function in regards to other social media platforms. It is a much more instant PLN and more and more people can use it to access more information differently.

Twitter is a much faster and efficient network for learning. It allows people to instantly access so much more information in shorter research time. It can be very educational and very informative if you follow the right kinds of pages. There are alot of educational people and pages you can follow and that will allow greater PLN discussions to occur.

It would be less time consuming searching for ideas and resources to support in class activities and lessons. It could allow teachers to gain a vast array of opinions and knowledge from other people without personally having to ask them. It can be used to help me and support me with other people in my course being able to share and suggest different educational information. Having a PLN through Twitter will be better for the future also because it looks like Twitter is going to be the future of social media.

I will try and use Twitter more in the future. I believe it will be the leading social media within the next 10 years. The information and resources you can find throught the PLN on Twitter will prove great in my future as a teacher. Twitter will be a very accessible tool for the future and Ithink more and more people are going to be using it soon so it will allow greater PLN discussions to occur.

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