Twitter and Elementary Schools?

With all this talk about twitter I was wondering if children in elementary school would use it. I know young children are beginning to use computer technology more and more in the classroom why not use twitter? I found a website named ‘Twitter for Teachers’ ,where it gives ways teachers can use twitter in the classroom.  This website gives eight project ideas such as historic tweets, book lists, and even have tweet pals! They want to incorporate the children into tweeting by tweeting about books in 140 characters or tweeting with children from other schools. But the question is should twitter have a verification of age? Should children in elementary school really use twitter? When you think about it, when children tweet to children from other schools it is sort of like writing a letter. I personally think it is a great start for children to use technology because they don’t have to type a lot to be involved. But the downside is children seeing words or phrases they shouldn’t see? Who will monitor what they are looking at?

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