http://blog.brettmoller.com/2005/11/05/communication-for-the-21st-century/ Thoughts on education and educational technology. Fri, 04 Jun 2010 12:06:17 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://blog.brettmoller.com/2005/11/05/communication-for-the-21st-century/comment-page-1/#comment-194 Mike Hetherington Wed, 16 Nov 2005 22:09:55 +0000 http://blog.brettmoller.com/?p=61#comment-194 Brett, I enjoy reading your students' posts. It looks like you have taken the necessary first step in getting the students to organize their thoughts and opinions in written form. I hope that very shortly my 6th graders will be doing the same thing. I've recently been exploring the new learnerblogs.org site and have begun setting it up for student use. One suggestion I have is to encourage some diversity of opinion from the students. From what I've read most of the students repeat the same opinion. I'd love to see one of the students step up and challange the majority while citing sources for their argument. They could do this using comments or new posts. I always welcome a good debate in the classroom, as long as both sides have some facts to back up thier opinions. To see this happen in a student blog would be interesting and educational for all parties. Good work. Hopefully my kids will be starting their blogs in the near future. Mike Hetherington Connecticut, USA Brett,
I enjoy reading your students’ posts. It looks like you have taken the necessary first step in getting the students to organize their thoughts and opinions in written form. I hope that very shortly my 6th graders will be doing the same thing. I’ve recently been exploring the new learnerblogs.org site and have begun setting it up for student use.
One suggestion I have is to encourage some diversity of opinion from the students. From what I’ve read most of the students repeat the same opinion. I’d love to see one of the students step up and challange the majority while citing sources for their argument. They could do this using comments or new posts. I always welcome a good debate in the classroom, as long as both sides have some facts to back up thier opinions. To see this happen in a student blog would be interesting and educational for all parties. Good work. Hopefully my kids will be starting their blogs in the near future.
Mike Hetherington
Connecticut, USA

]]> http://blog.brettmoller.com/2005/11/05/communication-for-the-21st-century/comment-page-1/#comment-114 Graham Wegner Mon, 07 Nov 2005 02:50:06 +0000 http://blog.brettmoller.com/?p=61#comment-114 Brett, I have no previous in-class experience to draw from but you make some good points I need to keep in mind when I get blogging underway in my class. It is a real discipline to create a worthwhile comment so maybe a start could be that all students are required to post an entry on their blog linking to and reflecting on a peer's selected post of interest. Then get the original author to comment on the new post, with the goal to assess if the reader "got" the point of the original post! Does this make sense? Brett, I have no previous in-class experience to draw from but you make some good points I need to keep in mind when I get blogging underway in my class. It is a real discipline to create a worthwhile comment so maybe a start could be that all students are required to post an entry on their blog linking to and reflecting on a peer’s selected post of interest. Then get the original author to comment on the new post, with the goal to assess if the reader “got” the point of the original post! Does this make sense?

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