Pedagogy and Didactics, a new way of tweeting to educate.

1. Darwin Meléndez Cox
Tweeting to educate

2. Context
Intermediate English, B2, ages: 18-23
Students of Languages at Universidad Javeriana.
 15 students.

3. Problem
Intermediate English students of Languages at PUJ
need to reinforce their reading and writing skills, as well
as critical thinking in the target language.

4. Proposal
Tweeting could be useful in assisting Intermediate
English students of Languages at PUJ with their reading,
writing skills and critical thinking.

5. Intervention
Date Objective Activity Result
Week 1 Introduction to
Twitter.
Create accounts.
How to tweet.
Look at Trending
Topics.
How to reply.
How to RT.
Created account.
To tweet your
teacher.
Tell her what are
the trending topics
you’ve seen.
Reply your
teacher’s tweets.
Re-tweet a
comment.
Week 2 To tweet about a
specific topic.
Report news related
to global warming
using passive voice.
Start discussing
specific issues using
tweets.

6. Date Objective Activity Result
Week 3 Provide opinions
and solutions for
specific current
topics
Select a topic, get
informed about it
and share a well
redacted and
supported
opinions.
A well supported
text.

7. Sample
 Place in this slide an example of the blog, the radio
show, the web page, the wiki…. etc

8. Conclusion
 Writing and reading skills are going to be improved.
 Critical thinking will be encouraged.
 Autonomous work will increase.
 Communicative skills will be developed and
encouraged.
 Motivation within the classroom will increase.