Twitter

Student Engagement: 3-4

Students are intrigued and excited to read responses from the Tweets that we sent together.  They have shared with families and want to stay connected.

Accessibility/Relevance: 4

Twitter is used in the classroom to be purposeful across all content areas to scaffold their learning while inquiring and making connections with others. 

Capabilities/Customization: 3

At this point the students are still learning about Twitter.  My goal for the class is to encourage students to share ideas, thoughts, and questions to learn about communicating through social media.

Safety: 2-3

Depending on the age group this could vary.  Second graders will write and share together before Tweeting.

Thinking Skills: 3

Twitter in the classroom can be used to encourage students to think and inquire about learning from peers in and out of their community.

Elementary Evaluation Tool

	1	2	3	4	Notes:
Qualities:
Student Engagement	Avoids app	Uses app but does not make connections to prior learning.	Uses app when directed.	Highly Motivated to use the app.
Accessibility/ Relevance	Not able to use for multiple purposes	Limited availability to use across contents	Purposeful and appropriate across content areas	Engaging across all content areas
Capabilities/ Customization	No access to camera, video, microphone and other libraries.	Limited use of settings to meet student’s need.	Flexible settings to models strategies, ability to create, structure, or build	Interactive and the ability to change content settings to model strategies and ability to create and build.
Safety	No private access availability	Class Login with personal password	Individual Log in & password.	Individual Log in & password with data available within class roster
Thinking Skills	Limited use of lower order thinking skills.	Mostly lower order thinking skills to understand and remember.	Use of higher order thinking skills including evaluating, analyzing and applying.	Use of higher order thinking skills including creating, evaluating and analyzing.