Hashtags Gallery

Twitterizing your classroom has been a pet project of mine. An action research project I did in my Master's program got me thinking about increasing student engagement using technology. One the ideas I came up with was using the concept of Twitter and hashtags to help students make real-life to content connections. Research has shown that learning and comprehension increase when learning is meaningful to students' lives. Each student has a unique life experience that can be drawn upon to make learning meaningful. Using hashtags in this manner is designed to get students to begin seeing themselves and their own life experiences in what they study.