June 28, 2011
Hollenbeck's Enrique Legaspi Featured on CNN
For several months, Hollenbeck MS teacher Enrique Legaspi has been innovating in the classroom by using Twitter as a means to engage his students. On June 8th Legaspi was featured in a segment on CNN’s "Anderson Cooper 360."
The segment revolved around Mr. Legaspi's innovative methods for teaching with Twitter and how using Twitter has improved student achievement in his classroom. Legaspi currently uses Twitter to engage students as they watch educational films, to inform each other on important news, interact on class work, and discuss art.
He also encourages his students to follow professors at colleges like Harvard and Yale, tweet their journals, post interesting photos, run polls, and give him feedback on what they what to learn about.
You can see the full segment on CNN’s website, click here.
