Can using Twitter make you smarter ? A raw semester - longstudyfound that college students who used Twitter for educational purposes earned GPAs a half - percentage point higher than a non - tweeting control group .
In a group of 125 students at an anonymous medium - sized public college in the Midwest , 70 educatee used Twitter to get at information and utter form assignments ; the remaining 55 students used a more typical Internet - based course - direction system and billboard . Not only did the tweeting 70 make gamey GPAs , they also reported much higher levels of engagement . The determination were account in the Journal of Computer Assisted Learning .
Some ahead of time - adopting professors haveadvocatedexperimenting with Twitter in the classroom — “ essentially ask students to pass bank bill during year , ” as the Chronicle of Higher Education once put it . This discipline may justify such an feeler . But one prof quote by theChronicleexpressed skepticism that Twitter alone could have lead to such a noteworthy boost . “ I think more could be done to understand the range of way that the Twitter design can form better in family assignments and collaborative government note - pickings , ” say Dave Parry , a UT Dallas professor who himself has experiment with Twitter in his class .
Meanwhile , to the dismay of more traditional professor , students can level to a novel justification for pulling out smartphones in class .
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