On Tuesday, the 1st grade students prepared for meeting their first class of Twitter friends. They were assigned tasks with iPads and laptops so they could do research as our friends gave us clues about where they live.
We tweeted them a picture the students took of our playground, and the mystery class responded that they were jealous because it looks like we can go out for recess. That gave the students the clue that the other class must live somewhere cold.
After a lot of research and deductions based on the clues, we finally discovered that the mystery class is in Illinois. That really surprised our students!
We are hoping to “Tweet Up” with the class, 1st Grade Dragons, again next week. In addition, we just signed up two more classes, and one of them is outside the United States! We will be mapping all of the locations of our Twitter friends, and hopefully learning a lot more about the diversity of our world.
You can read more about our experience here, on my professional blog.