@inproceedings{355f24ebe74c4a44850bde9219cfbb6b,
title = "Tweeting for class: Using social media to enable student co-construction of lectures",
abstract = "Motivating students to be active in learning is a perennial problem in education. We describe our experience using Twitter for student {"}co-construction{"} of lecture materials. Students were required to tweet prior to each lecture related to that day's topic. These tweets - consisting of questions, examples and reflections - were incorporated into the lecture slides. Students reported that they found lectures including their tweets in class to be engaging, interactive and relevant, and nearly 90% of them recommended we use our co-construction approach again. Future iterations of this model could streamline the process by using automated processing and aggregation of tweets and/or having students in the class responsible for this.",
keywords = "co-construction, education, engagement, twitter",
author = "Daniela Retelny and Jeremy Birnholtz and Jeffrey Hancock",
year = "2012",
doi = "10.1145/2141512.2141578",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9781450310512",
series = "Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW",
pages = "203--206",
booktitle = "CSCW'12 - Proceedings of the ACM 2012 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work Companion",
note = "ACM 2012 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work Companion, CSCW'12 ; Conference date: 11-02-2012 Through 15-02-2012",
}