Twitter in Education

@stumpteaher

Josh Stumpenhorst is a teacher and blogger from Chicago. He was also 2012 IL Teacher

of the Year. Stumpenhorst often tweets inspiring quotes or educational articles. As I was

reading through his timeline and keeping up with his posts, I noticed that he kept talking about

a “Thinking Wall.” I decided to look into it a little more, and I discovered that he will put up a

question such as “What does it mean to be successful?” and the students in his classes will put

an answer on the chalkboard around the question. I also discovered that he was an educational

blogger and a regular runner. He answers many educational questions his followers tweet him,

and he often posts how-to articles, such as “How to Set up Digital Workshops.” Along with the

other four educators I followed, he is a strong advocate for digital learning.

@bhsprincipal

Mark Sullivan is a principal at Burlington High School in Massachusetts. He mostly

tweets about school functions and updates. He posts many pictures of functions currently

going on at BHS. As I read through his tweets I noticed he used the hashtag #bhschat in almost

every tweet. When I clicked on it, I found that students, teachers, and administrators tweet

reminders or updates about things going on at the school and use that hashtag to make them

easily retrievable to anyone in the school. One rule for the tweets though, is they can’t use

students’ names to protect privacy. They also kept tweeting things about #hourofcode. I

looked into that as well and found that it was a website that exposes students to computer

programming.

@d_martin05

D Martin is a math teacher and speaker from Canada. He writes an article every day

that is in his Martin Daily newsletter type thing. He mentions the problems of standardized

testing frequently, and I can tell by the way he talks about it that he is definitely against it. He

also raises points about ESL students and testing and whether or not classrooms are set up to

accept the number of immigrants in schools. He tweets all kinds of teaching tips, and addresses

ways to prevent and stop bullying.

@NMHS_Principal

Eric Sheninger is the principal at New Milford High School in New Jersey. He is a Google

certified teacher and Adobe Education teacher. He is also an author and speaker about

education. He frequently posts inspiring quotes, and he recently hosted a visit with

administrators and teachers from Israel. He posts lots of links to education articles and

websites, and he passionate about including social media and other digital learning tools in

education. Oh, and he is also a runner. ;)

@Couros

Alec Couros is a professor of Education Technology and Media in Canada. He is also an

author and education researcher. His tweets mainly consist of updates from conferences he

goes to worldwide, and education articles. I learned that he is always on the road due to

business and that he has a three year old daughter. One of his more recent conferences was

about why social media matters in teaching and learning. I guess you could say all of these guys

love their technology.