Schools Should Be Embracing Twitter

One of the ways to offer a truly inclusive education for all young people is to embrace their diverse learning needs and encourage active participation on popular sites such as Facebook and Twitter to encourage the creation and sharing of information, suggests Futurelab in its latest handbook 'Using digital technologies to promote inclusive practices in education'

The report gives a number of case studies, offering an insight into others’ effective use of technology to overcome young people’s learning, physical, emotional or behavioural difficulties. One of these studies shows how the communicative, collaborative and community-building aspects of sites such as Facebook, Wikipedia and Twitter can be used to foster a more personalised approach to. Researchers go on to suggest that allowing learners access to Web 2.0 sites also helps to promote responsible and creative learning.