Many of us are finishing up an inference unit and looking ahead to making connections. If you think like me, the units are backwards but that’s another topic. I know many of you are thinking (well, they are very similar), I argue that students must connect before they can infer. I am surprised at the number of people who disagree with me. They argue that a good connection will come from a good inference.

Anyway….I wanted to post about twiducate and its use with these two topics. Its very easy to embed pictures and youtube videos into twiducate. I would suggest doing this, pinning the post to the top of the timeline and having your students infer / connect to the media you have posted. This way each student gets to post, read and comment on everyone elses post. Hopefully students will connect to other student posts and comment about it. Ideally you would want some self connections to the media you presented but you could extend this to have your students connect with each other and post comments. You could even prompt worldly connections to be made in the comments section.

If you are just interested in inferences, why not post some piece of text (song, pic, video, story etc.) and have students post evidence to support an opinion. You’d be surprised at the discussions that could unfold on twiducate. There seems to be more confidence in students behind an avatar.

What are your thoughts on connections / inferences? Can you change my twiducate lesson idea to make it better?

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