Twitter en las aulas del grado de Biotecnología. Ahora es el turno de los alumnos

What is it about?

Social networks are increasingly used both to disseminate science and to teach it. In fact, because of its impact at present, to the “publish or perish” another sentence must be added “get visible or vanish”. There are many examples of scientists who use social networks as a way to communicate their results or spread their research to society. One of such initiatives are the Massive Open On-line Courses that have been set up by the Spanish Society of Microbiology carried out by a group of professors and researchers. In our case we have applied a “turn of the screw” letting the students go from being the recipients of the scientific information, to being generators of it, as part of their scientific and academic training. For this, a group of students from 1st and 2nd year of the Degree in Biotechnology have performed a series of “threads” to be published on Twitter. In the case of 1st year students, the threads should summarize some of the topics taught in class. In the case of 2nd year students, the threads should describe the content of a scientific article. The learning results have been promising and we intend to repeat and improve the experience in future courses.

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Photo by Kenny Eliason on Unsplash

Why is it important?

Use of Twitter as an educational tool by the students