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HOME CURRENT ISSUE PAST ISSUES FEEDBACK HELP Search PDK Submit Advanced Search User Name Password Sign In Tweeting in the classroom Wayne Journell, Cheryl A. Ayers, and Melissa Walker Beeson

WAYNE JOURNELL (awjourne{at}uncg.edu) is an assistant professor and secondary social studies program coordinator at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He also is author of Online Learning: Strategies for K-12 Teachers (Rowman & Littlefield, 2013). CHERYL A. AYERS is a doctoral student at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. MELISSA WALKER BEESON is an assistant professor at Salem College, Winston-Salem, N.C. Abstract Social media is the new face of global communication, and, instead of blocking it, schools should be embracing it. Twitter presents opportunities for teachers to link students with real-time information and diverse ideological perspectives. The author describes the use of Twitter in a high school civics class during the 2012 presidential election.

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