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Be Better at Twitter: The Definitive, Data-Driven Guide - Megan Garber - Technology - The Atlantic

Excellent article about the research from several researchers about Tweets that are compelling and those that are turn-offs. This and the original research are both great reads.

“One piece of advice: Nix the “sandwich tweets.” People do not care what you are eating for lunch. (Specifically: “Sorry, but I don’t care what people are eating,” “too much personal info,” “He moans about this ALL THE TIME. Seriously.”) Twitter, as a communications platform, has evolved beyond nascent Twttr’s charmingly mundane updates (“cleaning my apartment”; “hungry”) and into something more crowd-conscious and curatorial. Though Twitter won’t necessarily replace traditional news, it increasingly functions as a real-time newswire, disseminating and amplifying information gathered from the world and the web.

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Twilight of the lecture. I love this story. gjmueller: Twilight of the Lecture The trend toward “active learning” may overthrow the style of teaching that has ruled universities for 600 years. Reviewing the test of conceptual understanding, Mazur twice tried to explain one of its questions to the class, but the students remained obstinately confused. “Then I did something I had never done in my teaching career,” he recalls. “I said, ‘Why don’t you discuss it with each other?’” Immediately, the lecture hall was abuzz as 150 students started talking to each other in one-on-one conversations about the puzzling question. “It was complete chaos,” says Mazur. “But within three minutes, they had figured it out. That was very surprising to me—I had just spent 10 minutes trying to explain this. But the class said, ‘OK, We’ve got it, let’s move on.’ via Mr Montgomery

Twilight of the lecture. I love this story.

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Twilight of the Lecture
 
The trend toward “active learning” may overthrow the style of teaching that has ruled universities for 600 years.

Reviewing the test of conceptual understanding, Mazur twice tried to explain one of its questions to the class, but the students remained obstinately confused. “Then I did something I had never done in my teaching career,” he recalls. “I said, ‘Why don’t you discuss it with each other?’” Immediately, the lecture hall was abuzz as 150 students started talking to each other in one-on-one conversations about the puzzling question. “It was complete chaos,” says Mazur. “But within three minutes, they had figured it out. That was very surprising to me—I had just spent 10 minutes trying to explain this. But the class said, ‘OK, We’ve got it, let’s move on.’

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