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	<title><![CDATA[Embracing the Twitter Classroom]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jessica-gross/embracing-the-twitter-cla_b_204463.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>David Parry <a href="http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/2699/a-professors-tips-for-using-twitter-in-the-classroom">started using Twitter</a> with his University of Texas at Dallas students in 2007. A teacher at Hope Charter School in Philadelphia, PA <a href="http://songhaiconcepts.blogspot.com/2009/04/classroom-twitter.html">taught his students</a> to mark themselves present and record their in-class accomplishments on the site. Penn State professor Cole Camplese maintains a <a href="http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/3705/professor-encourages-students-to-pass-notes-during-class-via-twitter">screen full of his students' Twitter streams</a> throughout each class. </p>

<p>Laymen have replaced trained experts as the people who define what's true in our world, and some educators are embracing the...</p>]]></abstract>
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	<date_published>2009-11-05T15:34:00-05:00</date_published>
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