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“Do you think engaging students could be enough as a reason to use twitter blogs, wikis and other stuff in school? How about students who would prefer the “traditional” way of classes?”
I think that in order to use (micro)blogs in education, teachers and pupils should know the applications throughout. They aren’t something you can use just once to motivate your pupils, then the meaning will stay too shallow. I think it’s very hard to be an expert enough about these applications in order to get all the advantages. And if the pupils don’t know how to us them, (micro)blogging can just confuse them instead of motivating.
The optimal situation would be that those who prefer using blogs etc. could use them, but the others could just stuck to the traditional ways. But I’m not yet sure if that’s even possible. At the moment my knowledge and skills concerning twitter, blogs and wikis as educational tools aren’t good enough. I couldn’t, yet, use them to help my pupils. After reading all the articles about this issue I’ve also became a bit skeptic, so I don’t think that motivational/engaging reasons alone aren’t enough to encourage me to use blogs etc. in education.
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