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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 co...

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Published inThe Journal of economic education Vol. 45; no. 2; pp. 101 - 109
Main Author Kassens, Alice Louise
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Washington Routledge 2014
Taylor & Francis Group, LLC
Taylor & Francis Inc
Subjects
Assignments
Blogs
College Instruction
Denken
ECONOMIC INSTRUCTION
Economics Education
Electronic Publishing
Handschrift
Macroeconomics
Reflection
Schreiben
Social networks
Soziale Medien
Student writing
Studies
Technologie
technology
Technology adoption
Technology Uses in Education
Twitter
Virginia
Web 2.0 Technologies
writing
Writing Skills
Virginia
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Summary: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.
ISSN:0022-0485
2152-4068
DOI:10.1080/00220485.2014.889937