Teraknor

I think that Facebook (and other social media services) offer unequivocal proof of good teaching - by seeing evidence that some of us have either missed valuable lessons at school, were asleep when the subject was being covered or that it was never covered at all. Think about it - how many times have you seen posts shared, shared again and sod it shared umpteen times that contains: Science that does not exist Facts that are simply not true Tests in logic that are illogical Maths that rely on knowing some principles Grammar, Spelling that rely on knowing some principles We know (at least I know) that many of these images/posts are click bait - yet I see some souls who I assume to be of modest intelligence posting them. If you are unsure, check out the fact first before sharing this rubbish - it may seem plausible - yet it is likely that it is not. It is fair to say that some of these opportunities enable us to learn by research and a little critical thought. Occasionally ...

Should I panic as some of my research focusses on the timed outputs of pedagogical content based around a microlearning model. Twitter lends itself to this, yet as is the case with mass broadcast social media ... unless you personally focus on one specific account, everything is easily lost in the maelstrom of social media utterance. I am not panicking - not yet, I doubt that I will. Why, well dear reader - Twitter is free, for free I get an excellent service and Twitter is able to occasionally ply promoted tweets into my timeline as well as for everyone else. The new proposition to adjust their model to promote some tweets is their call - it may work for me, I may find that it annoys me. Yet, I will watch and learn, observe and adjust my use of twitter. After all - this isn't the only platform I use, it would not take any great effort to shift focus to Facebook, Google+ and LinkedIn which I also use.