The Machine
Digital text is the new text! What a message! In other words, why are we still teaching the old fashioned way? Write the paper, print the paper, grade the paper, toss the paper...
This is the begining of the paperless classroom. The youtube video, puts everything we have been learning, in English 307, in perspective. I think teaching using the wikis and blogging will keep students doing what they love. Students enjoy blogging on eachother's pages, and commenting on myspace. Why not have them doing these things in the classroom in an educational way? For the first time, students can do something they love in school. Not only is blogging something they enjoy, but it is something that is useful. Students will be using blogs and web 2.0 in the real world. So why not teach them something they can use?
And I'll say it again, let students socialize through the web! This is how our students are going to be learning. This is how oue students are going to be living! The video reiterates everything Warlick and Richardson have been discussing on blogs and in books for years.
posted by Lauren at 5:49 PM
1 Comments:
I definitly agree that blogs should be happening in classrooms because students do seem to be enjoying it and it is being used for educational purposes. What I have come to realize about blogging, is that I like the fact that is does not underline or highlight if you spelled something wrong or if the punctuation is incorrect. This will force/motivate students to go back and proof-read what they wrote before publishing it. I think this is a good technique.
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