ARTICLES: Social networking: A new tool allowed in the classroom

After spending the day practicing cursive writing and discussing how money moves through a community, Mike Ice's second-graders at Dunn Elementary took out their notebooks and described what they'd learned — in 140 characters or fewer.

Then he selected a few students to type their abbreviated reports on the classroom's Twitter page — so that all the parents following their progress would receive a “tweet” about their day.

“We did cursive morning work, it was the letter ‘D',” wrote Jenna Sexton, 8. Updating the classroom's Twitter page has become a daily practice for Ice's students.

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