{"id":107,"date":"2016-03-30T19:29:30","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T19:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edb.utexas.edu\/socialmediagroup\/?p=107"},"modified":"2016-03-30T19:29:30","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T19:29:30","slug":"using-twitter-in-the-classroom-shapiro-at-temple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/wordpress\/blog\/using-twitter-in-the-classroom-shapiro-at-temple\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Twitter in the Classroom &#8211; Shapiro at Temple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Article in the Philadelphia Inquirer on how Jordan Shapiro, <span class=\"color_16\">senior fellow for the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop, used Twitter in his classroom at Temple University.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/articles.philly.com\/2013-02-21\/news\/37202638_1_professors-twitter-classroom\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/articles.philly.com\/2013-02-21\/news\/37202638_1_professors-twitter-classroom<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s also a great NPR ED story &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/ed\/2015\/12\/30\/458039343\/exploding-the-myth-of-unengaged-students\" target=\"_blank\">Exploding The Myth Of &#8216;Unengaged&#8217; Students<\/a> related to his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/jordanshapiro\/2015\/04\/30\/4-fundamental-problems-with-everything-you-hear-about-the-future-of-education\/#193d72273580\" target=\"_blank\">4 Fundamental Problems With Everything You Hear About The Future Of Education <\/a>article in Forbes. He argues against the notion that schools need to gamify instruction and leverage technology to engage students and make learning fun. Really interesting stuff!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article in the Philadelphia Inquirer on how Jordan Shapiro, senior fellow for the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop, used Twitter in his classroom at Temple University. http:\/\/articles.philly.com\/2013-02-21\/news\/37202638_1_professors-twitter-classroom There&#8217;s also a great NPR ED story &#8211; Exploding The Myth Of &#8216;Unengaged&#8217; Students related to his 4 Fundamental Problems With Everything You Hear About The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-instructional-strategy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.edb.utexas.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}