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Tweeting Your Way to Improved #Writing, #Reflection, and #Community

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Economics appears to be lagging behind other fields in the adoption of Web 2.0 technologies in the classroom. Twitter is an online microblogging utility, permitting posts of up to 140 characters called tweets. The utility is rapidly making its way into secondary and post-secondary classrooms as a complement to traditional instruction and an active learning tool. In this article, the author describes how Twitter was employed as a complement to traditional lecture in a small macroeconomics principles course (the instrument is applicable to courses at any level). The brevity of the tweets forces students to express their thoughts concisely and is believed to develop reflection and writing skills while expanding the class community.

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  • Alice Louise Kassens, 2014. "Tweeting Your Way to Improved #Writing, #Reflection, and #Community," The Journal of Economic Education, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 45(2), pages 101-109, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:jeduce:v:45:y:2014:i:2:p:101-109
    DOI: 10.1080/00220485.2014.889937
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    Cited by:

    1. Erin E. George, 2019. "Tweeting Adam Smith: Using Twitter to Engage Students in the History of Economic Thought," Journal of Economics Teaching, Journal of Economics Teaching, vol. 4(1), pages 15-26, May.
    2. Abdullah Al-Bahrani & David Mahon & G. Dirk Mateer & Patrick Ryan Murphy, 2018. "Pokemon GO: Applications for the Economics Classroom," Journal of Economics Teaching, Journal of Economics Teaching, vol. 3(2), pages 218-231, December.
    3. Michael J. Enz & James E. Tierney, 2016. "Advice on Implementing Supplemental Instruction in an Introductory Level Economics Course," Journal of Economics Teaching, Journal of Economics Teaching, vol. 1(2), pages 111-117, December.

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