I have an ongoing love/hate relationship with the trend to use a long Twitter thread (a series of posts meant to continue one stream of thought) instead of a blog post. This conversation was instigated by Justin Schleider and Doug Timm, my Edumatch pals.
I have often seen “rants” using this medium, which is perhaps why I dislike it so much. Until today.
Connie Walker, a Canadian journalist, created a thread about her journey with her daughter (now there was a response to the thread that basically says DO NOT DO THIS as monarch butterflies are in crisis), but what I want to focus on is the potential for storytelling.
Unlike Twitter moments, which I mention in Social LEADia, as opportunities to curate content on Twitter to create your own interpretation or story about it, Twitter threads are completely blank slates for creation. Composing a Twitter thread would simultaneously restrict kids and give them flexibility to be creative.
It would also be a really important lesson in digital citizenship because you would need to spend time peer-editing each other’s for a global audience.
So, 9 days ago (without really knowing what I was getting into), we collected 4 monarch butterfly eggs from a milkweed plant. I thought it would be neat for my daughter to see the process from 🥚 to 🐛 to butterfly 🦋. Here’s a pic of Day 1. pic.twitter.com/qIad76HF40
— Connie Walker (@connie_walker) July 12, 2018
What do you think?
