Study Finds Students may do better using Twitter by news release of South Dakota State University
The University of South Dakota did a study where 125 students were tested, seventy of them used Twitter for academic discussions, the other 55 participated as a control group. The class-student engagement level was significantly higher for the students using Twitter. I can easily see why this is so. I can think of personal accounts where I was off school hours and thought of a question I wanted to ask a student in the class or the professor, unfortunately most of these questions come up when I'm not in class, not near a computer, or near a piece of paper to write the question down. So when I finally get to a place where I'm able to ask the question I'm either too lazy, or I just forget. Since Twitter is always around, and because it is so instantaneous one can never have an excuse to extract and input data from the class. Indeed Twitter is revolutionizing many things that seem superficial and maybe even trite, but here it proves to be useful on a significant level.
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