Twitter Rocking Your Students’ Learning
Khitam Al-Utaibi
iEARN-Jordan Representative
6th Annual “Shaping The Way We Teach” Conference
“Meeting the Social and Psychological Needs of our Students: The
Shifting Roles of Teachers in the Classroom”
#twitter #education #socialpsychologicalneeds
American Language Center
January 24th , 2014

Session Agenda
{90 minutes}
# Activity
Time
1 Introduction to some uses for Twitter in education
5
2 Teaming up the participants according to teams according to Hogan
Personality Inventory
5
3 Each team is no more than 3 people.
5
4 Our assigned #hashtag for the session to track the tweets #t1alc14
4
5 Tweeting idioms in classroom. Teams will tweet their answers on five
to ten common idioms in English.
35
6 Each team summarizes main ideas inspired from the activity on the
white board
7
7 How to use Twitter as a searching tool.
7
8 “Meeting the Social and Psychological Needs of Students and how the
Shifting Roles of Teachers in the Classroom” change the way learning
occurs
12
9 Wrapping up the session with Q&A
10

Main Objectives
• Learning by doing the know how to use Twitter in
educational setting for language arts
• Experience the class interaction through team work,
verbal communication, etc.
• Twitter as a search tool

What Twitter IS
A. What is Twitter? … is a service for friends, family, and co-workers to
communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent
answers. … is ‘digital communication’. … is network formed around a shared
interest. www.dontwasteyourtime.co.uk
B. How Can I Use Twitter? You have 140 characters (including spaces) to say what
you have to say. You can ‘follow’ people and what they say, they can follow you
and what you say. You can connect with anyone, for any reason, at any time.
www.dontwasteyourtime.co.uk
C. Terminology Tweet : an individual post. RT (Retweet) : re-telling someone else’s
tweet. @username : open message to specific person. Message : Direct message
a follower (private) #Hashtag : Use Hashtag to group & track discussions
(conference, seminar, classroom activity, etc.) www.dontwasteyourtime.co.uk

Teaming
Sociability
Adjustment
Prudence
Learning
Approach
Interpersonal
Sensitivity
The Hogan Personality
Inventory
describes normal, or bright-side
personality – the strengths and
weaknesses people display when
they are at their best. Bright-side
personality characteristics dictate to
which psychological role an
individual will be drawn.
Ambition
Inquisitive
The HPI measures normal personality along seven primary scales:
Adjustment: confidence, self-esteem, and composure under pressure
Ambition: initiative, competitiveness, and desire for leadership roles
Sociability: extraversion, gregarious, and need for social interaction
Interpersonal Sensitivity: tact, perceptiveness, and ability to maintain relationships
Prudence: self-discipline, responsibility and conscientiousness
Inquisitive: imagination, curiosity, and creative potential
Learning Approach: achievement-oriented, stays up-to-date on business and technical matters

Terminology You Must Know About Twitter

Round 1/ Idioms
#t1alc14
1. Piece of cake
• when someone says that the assignment they
just finished was a piece of cake, it does not
mean that their professor gave them a red
velvet cupcake for their midterm paper, what
piece of cake actually means is that something
is very easy to complete.

Round 1/ Idioms
#t1alc14
2. Costs an arm and a leg
• It would be a strange world we lived in if
buying that fancy shiny purse literally required
us to chop off our body parts to give as tribute
to the Louis Vuitton gods. When something
costs an arm and a leg it actually means that
something is very expensive.

Round 1/ Idioms
#t1alc14
3. Hit the nail on the head
• This idiom has to do with doing or saying
something that is precisely right. If you don’t
understand this, just think about that sweet
feeling you get when you swing a hammer at a
nail and hit it perfectly.

Round 1/ Idioms
#t1alc14
4. Describe the bold!
a. He was all ears when his boss a. {Listening carefully}
talked.
b. His comments threw a wet
blanket on the discussion.
b. {discouraged}
c. If you understand
c. {One}
immediately what someone is
trying to say, they might say to
you "Got it in ___ ."

Round 2/ Images
#t1alc14
1. The Metropolitan Museum of
Art
Located in New York City,
Where is it located?
New York, USA
It is the largest art museum
in the United States, and
one of the ten largest in
the world, with the most
significant art collections.

Round 2/ Images
#t1alc14
2. Define Twitter • Twitter is an online social networking
and microblogging service that enables
users to send and read "tweets",
which are text messages limited to 140
characters. Registered users can read
and post tweets, but unregistered
users can only read them. The default
settings for Twitter are public, anyone
can follow anyone on publicTwitter.
To weave tweets into a conversation
thread or connect them to a general
topic, members can add hashtags# to a
keyword in their post.

Round 2/ Images
#t1alc14
3. Describe the image.
• Ayah from the Holy Quran,
• Calligraphy,
• Manuscript

Round 3/ Inspiration
#t1alc14
To whom would you write this message, and with
who you want to get back together?

Twitter as a searching tool
By word
Word with use of @
Word with use of #hashtags
Search exercise

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
When applied to student learning…
Social
To be accepted by other students
Self-esteem
Respect between students and between students
and the teacher

Psychological Need!
An inherent source of motivation that
generates the desire to interact with the
environment so as to advance personal
growth, social development, and
psychological well-being.
Based on Reeve (2009, pp. 142-143)

Social Media Fulfilling Social And Psychological
Needs

The Three Rs and the Four Cs
Core Academics
• Reading
• Writing
• Arithmetic
21st Century Skills
• Critical thinking &
problem solving
• Communication
• Collaboration
• Creativity and
Innovation

21st Century Learning Environments

6th Annual “Shaping The Way We Teach” Conference
“Meeting the Social and Psychological Needs of our Students: The Shifting Roles of
Teachers in the Classroom”
Twitter Rocking Your Students’ Learning
American Language Center
January 24th , 2014
Scoring Sheet
Questions
Answers
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