Application to Twitter

Twitter is a very effective tool that can be used by students for collaboration, communication, or just as a social network. But it also has many educational purposes. One certain application I came across was called "Tweet poll". This application allows users with a Twitter account to create a multiple choice poll about any given topic. This gives students so many opportunities to research information or conduct interviews! You can write the question and give as many answers as needed. You can also identify if the person is able to answer more than once. For an example, I conducted a poll titled "Where do you currently reside?" Students were to answer whether they lived on-campus, off-campus, with their parents, or if they had a nomad lifestyle. Eleven people voted, and now I have a sample of the ratio of people living on-campus to off-campus. It also incorporates visual learners by having a pie graph of the findings.

If a teacher used tweet poll in the classroom, the students can discuss the reliability and validity of the outcomes. Students could choose a random sample of people to poll, or focus on a certain people group. Then, the students could compare and contrast the different information they collected between the different groups. Also, if the students wanted to be more involved with users on Twitter, they could specifically ask different people a question about what it was like when they were little. If they asked a generation of people older than them, they could compare how something changed with time.

I think tweet poll is a great toll for students to begin with and explore as they research and discover different facts and information. It is a great tool to poll users, and it's simple and efficient. Students could master this content just by using something interactive like a tweet poll.