Useing social media in class

Erin olson an english teacher in Sioux Rapids Iowa is in a small growing cadre of educators trying to exploit Twitter-like technology to enhance classroom discussion one of the students would read out loud a poem wile the class room would be on twitter having a class dicussion. Nicholas provenzano a english teacher at Grosse Pointe south high school near detroit said that in a class of 30 students only about 12 usually carried the conversation but that eight more might pop up on a backchannel another eight kids entering a discussion is huge hesaid and I belive that and I really like the one-to-one program fair has.