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In the Digital Age teachers have fallen far behind the technical
skills of their “digital native” students. The implementation of
technology as a tool for classroom communication is foreign for
most teachers, but highly preferred by students. While
teenagers are using Facebook, Twitter, and other social
networks to communicate, teachers continue to respond through
face-to-face conversations, telephone calls, and email
messaging. Twitter, a platform for short message service text, is
an online social network site that allows users to send and
receive messages using 140 characters or less called Tweets. To
analyze the relationship of the teacher’s use of Twitter with
student academic achievement, a correlation study conducted by
Bess collected data from two matched samples of eighth grade
science students: one utilizing Twitter and one not utilizing
Twitter to reinforce classroom instruction. Two tests matching
the science standards were given to both samples of students.
The results of the tests were used as primary data. The findings
suggested a positive correlation between the use of Twitter and
student performance on the standardized tests. Implications for
this study indicate that young teenagers may prefer Twitter as a
mode of communication with their teacher, resulting in higher
academic achievement in a middle school science class.
