Kinderchat as a New Literacy Practice

Abstract

From my brief personal learning experience, I wanted to explore the effectiveness of Twitter as a teaching tool in larger educational platforms. Many studies approached Twitter as an instructional tool. Teachers, especially in higher education, use Twitter as an immediate feedback tool or as a place that students can engaged with each other on classroom material. While some studies focus on the pre-service teachers and their professional improvement by means of Twitter (Reinhardt et al. 2010) others focus on in-service teachers to see how they integrate Twitter to their own profession or their in-class activities. (Greenhalg et al. 2017) Along with these education-related Twitter studies, there are a few studies that question the effectiveness of Twitter as an instructional tool (Kist et al. 2015). Ultimately, scholars have different ideas about Twitter’s role and efficacy in education and I see Kinderchat as a good place to explore as a site for education practices.