Objections to Twitter are usually along the lines of “What can you say in 140 characters?” “It’s all about celebrities and what they had for breakfast”; “it’s full of racist trolls”; “it’s a trivial medium – what could it possibly offer me, or teaching and learning?"
This is the image problem that Twitter has with a lot of academic staff – they just don’t see the point. I do sense a switch in this attitude though, as more and more academics start to use it, and they see their peers using it, and their students, and their institutions.
===> What they will find, once they dip their toes is that it is an incredibly useful medium for teaching, learning and research. <===
===> Twitter is an incredibly useful medium for teaching, learning and research. <===
Check also:
- https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2013/02/20/what-you-should-know-about-twitter-chats/
- https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2012/06/27/how-to-use-twitter-with-success-for-education-and-more/
- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching?tag=Twitter