IMO, Twitter at its very core is just a messaging platform. In that sense, it sure can be used for educational purposes, but no one’s thought of a great way to leverage it yet.

That gives me an idea — students could submit questions with a certain tag (#vce_q&a) and teachers could track that tag and answer them!

Or… (I’ve got two ideas running in my head right now so expect to be confused) you could integrate it with a web-app (e.g.: #merspi for http://merspi.com) which then generates a question there! You’ll have to check out http://merspi.com first to see what I mean — do you think this is a good educational Web 2.0 platform?

Please get in touch with me if you think so, I’d love to talk more about ICT and education.