I can't believe I have @ twitter....

Maybe I just missed the twitter thing.  I for one never even new what it was.  Facebook, now that made sense.  In 1999, when I first went to college, I literally was given a book full of faces of all the incoming freshman.  It contained a picture and a brief description of the person (I wish I made the connection #Zuckerbergisagenius).  Facebook therefore made sense to me as it was an expanded electronic version of something I had already experienced.  But twitter, what was it's tangible version?  Since being in an instructional technology class, I was forced to start one.  Now I can't stop.  For one thing, there are athletes, actors and musicians on there that I like.  To get an instant look as to what they are doing, thinking or feeling is actually really fun.  So what does this have to do with a classroom?
Maybe, this time, education will actually be concurrent with the real world.  My friends from college all had business degrees.  Not one of them graduated with the ability to use a copy machine, fax machine or (at the time) the internet.    It seems trivial, but those are essential business tools.  For the thousands of dollars they spent learning management principles, they couldn't manage a fax.  Twitter is becoming, if it is not already, a vital piece of communication and marketing.  I think we can say that it is how the world works and where it is going.  I think it is amazing that it is utilized in the classroom for communication, polls and reflection.  Twitter and History  I can remember the days when businesses didn't have web sites and were slow to adopt them.  Can you imagine a business being successful without a website?  I can't.  I think we can say that a person without a twitter is missing out on what is going on around them.  Why shouldn't schools be at the cutting edge of technology so that its graduates are at the very least in step with what is used in the office instead of trying to catch up.  I suspect that pretty soon every business will have it's own App and that will be the next move for the classroom.  Each teacher having there own App to send push notifications and updates to students.
By the way, I am only 30 years old.  Technology is moving fast.  The use of twitter in the classroom is encouraging in that the institution of education is embracing this change and truly doing it's job: preparing students for the real world by acting like the real word. @jonbags31