Teaching With Twitter: Not for the Faint of Heart - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education
The unanswered question, though, is whether that theory can work in practice, in a room packed primar ily with 18- to 22-year-olds who can seem more interested in high grades than in high-mindedness.
That uncertainty actually excites Mr. Chakravarty and other daredevil professors attempting this teaching trick. "You are vulnerable out there," he said when I talked with him in his office after class. "Students really don't hold back. If you say something wrong or something that they don't agree with, then they'll let you know, and everybody else will see it."
Many colleagues are watching such experiments with a mix of curiosity and disbelief to see how the professors land.
Students seem to love the chance to make their voices heard in class without having to actually speak. About 75 percent of the stude
