Enduring Understandings for the readings

The enduring understanding for chapter 6 is: Utilizing social media technology can aid in collaboration of students and teachers to outside resources. It creates an efficient way of interacting with experts or other useful resources to create the best possible lesson plan.

• How can you use social networking sites, such as Twitter, to interact with the parents of students?

 Perhaps a teacher can start by posting important information to Twitter for parents to read, and then encourage more communication via twitter. Including fun information such as tweets on how students are doing throughout the day/week could generate interest amongst parents to follow you and read your tweets.

• How can social media sites aid teachers in creating lesson plans?

A teacher in Baltimore utilizes twitter by having his students collect information, have his students keep track of what they are doing, and build up their grammar skills.