I read an article titled "Essex University students get 'extreme tweet' skills" on BBC news.
According to this article, students' writing and reading abilities increase by using 'micro-fiction' on SNS such as twitter. 'micro-fiction' is like a short sentence for instance, "only 300 words left!" and "It was me. I did it. I'm so sorry." Because number of words is limited as 140 characters on twitter, students try to minimize their tweet. As a result, students think hard, write concisely, and read critically : they get what is called 'extreme tweet' skills.
University of Essex
Taking a teacher training course, I am really interested in Education. So I read some articles containing an educational topic and found this article is interesting. In Japan, people tend to think Twitter effects badly on students mentally and physically by tweeting during a class or before sleeping.
So knowing that twitter actually makes students' skills improved is kind of surprising thing for me but for student, this information may be a wonderful because they got a right reason to tweet.
Even twitter has a good effect, students have to understand that it also has a bad effect when they use it. if they understand both aspects of it and use it properly, then critics will be less for this study and parents will agree that students and children use it. As one of twitter user, it is great to know this news anyway.
This article was also surprising for me to know that Twitter makes users develop their writing or reading skills.
ReplyDeleteI agree that the word limitation in Twitter may affects in a good way, but as Shoko mentioned too, this article may encourage more users to use Twitter.
Therefore, we need to think both positive and negative effects of social media.
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ReplyDeleteI was surprised too at the fact that Twitter does have some good influences on people, however, I also agree that we should consider how to use it carefully.
ReplyDeleteAs I have written in my research about being addicted to smartphone uses and SNS such as Twitter, we have to have an initiative when we use them.