@inproceedings{74e26d74194f4a31a732676005737bfd,
title = "Tweeting for class: Co-construction as a means for engaging students in lectures",
abstract = "Motivating students to be active learners is a perennial problem in education, and is particularly challenging in lectures where instructors typically prepare content in advance with little direct student participation. We describe our experience using Twitter as a tool for student {"}coconstruction{"} of lecture materials. Students were required to post a tweet prior to each lecture related to that day's topic, and these tweets - consisting of questions, examples and reflections - were incorporated into the lecture slides and notes. Students reported that they found lectures including their tweets in the class slides to be engaging, interactive and relevant, and nearly 90% of them recommended we use our co-construction approach again.",
keywords = "Co-construction, Education, Engagement, Lecture, Twitter",
author = "Jeremy Birnholtz and Jeff Hancock and Daniela Retelny",
note = "Copyright: Copyright 2013 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.; 31st Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Changing Perspectives, CHI 2013 ; Conference date: 27-04-2013 Through 02-05-2013",
year = "2013",
doi = "10.1145/2470654.2470767",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9781450318990",
series = "Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings",
pages = "797--800",
booktitle = "CHI 2013",
}