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This Concept Map, created with IHMC CmapTools, has information related to: Urban Youth Use Twitter to Transform Learning and Engagement, the incorporation of Twitter changed the structure of instruction and practices of classroom such as students used tweets as conversational starters, Twitter improved HS students' writing and vocabulary usage because Twitter provided an alternative & anonymous way for students to participate in classrooms, the incorporation of Twitter changed the structure of instruction and practices of classroom such as Many students felt emboldened to use Twitter to have conversations with our community of readers, as it afforded students another form of participation in which their expertise and understanding of The Giver could be displayed., Twitter improved HS students' writing and vocabulary usage because the students revisited the book in conjunction with the tweets or tweet threads, 7. What new information did the researchers learn? they learned students found that their Twitter conversations encouraged a different type of thinking about student academic identity., Twitter provided an alternative & anonymous way for students to participate in classrooms which caused them to take academic risks, 7. What new information did the researchers learn? they learned students were more excited to come to class, often arriving before the bell rang to quickly review any unread tweets., 4. From where did they get an answer to their question? the participants were from an urban high school, students found that their Twitter conversations encouraged a different type of thinking about student academic identity. demonstrated by this data “Being able to work with graduate students made me feel like a bit more professional, like we were being taken seriously, like young adults and not high school stu- dents.”, 3. What do other researchers know about this topic or ideas related to this topic? they know online tools are considered "new literacies" (Greenhow & Gleason), them to take academic risks such as experimenting with language., the incorporation of Twitter changed the structure of instruction and practices of classroom such as spotlighting “Tweets of the Day” generated by HS students, Students maintained ongoing conversational exchanges, simultaneously, with multiple discussants. demonstrated by #SmartGirlzWorld communicated with at least nine other individuals within our community of readers., 4. From where did they get an answer to their question? the participants were African Americans students, 7. What new information did the researchers learn? researchers learned that HS students enjoyed reinventing their identities, 7. What new information did the researchers learn? researchers learned the incorporation of Twitter changed the structure of instruction and practices of classroom, from two sections of English language arts (ELA) made up of tenth-grade English (20 students), 7. What new information did the researchers learn? researchers learned that students developed NEW, anonymous academic identities using Twitter, 3. What do other researchers know about this topic or ideas related to this topic? they know As a literacy-based social networking site, Twitter represents one of a constellation of available online literacies that help to organize, facilitate, and disseminate digital texts in cyberspace (Alvermann 9)., that HS students enjoyed reinventing their identities because hashtag monikers promoted levels of anonymity