Five reasons you (and your pupils) should join Twitter

A journalist recently described Twitter as ‘the wet market of ideas’. What’s more, it’s a platform which attracts – as we all know – some of the worst bullies and bigots in our communities. You could probably rattle off, right now, five reasons why you should not join Twitter. And valid they would be.

But it’s a baby and bathwater scenario, and the baby sat in that greasy, post-truth bathwater is a happy, healthy and productive one.

Below I’ve pulled together five reasons why I have come to value Twitter hugely as a Classics teacher. And I think the more passionate or ambitious of your pupils could also gain a lot.