"Fake" Social Networking
Is Twitter, Facebook, and Texting Taboo?
Provide students this "taboo" experience in a controlled and education way. Teach digital citizenship while requiring students to use critical thinking by Facebooking, tweeting and texting with "fake" web applications.
Students are desperate to use Facebook at school so here is their chance. Higher level processing in a simple program that students are used to. Example.
Historical Tweets | Tweet Builder
What would they have tweeted if they were alive? Example of what your students could do with 140 characters.
Assignment | Student Examples | Tweet Builder Example
ifaketext.com | iPhoneTextGenerator.com
Students text more than they use any other tool. What better way than to get them to condense ideas into a text conversation.
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