Hillary Gets It!
I am so excited about getting some of the faculty at J. H. House up and going on blogs this year.
Hillary, the instructional technology specialist, really gets blogging.
I mean REALLY gets it! When you have a colleague who turns a
corner and understands the joy of blogging, the power of the learning
and also sees future possibilities….well, it doesn’t get much better
than that. Hillary says Learning to Write is Learning to Think and I couldn’t agree more. This is a great read and if you haven’t added Hillary to your Bloglines list you need to. An excerpt from her blog:
However, the most difficult aspect of writing our students constantly
describe is not plagiarizing. Why is this so difficult for our young
aspiring writers? Well, it is just as difficult for me as it is for
them! Since the original author seems to say it so much better, it
seems logical for our students to use their words. That is where
thinking comes in! Learning to write is learning to think. Although
it seems as though we have few original thoughts, we do have our own
original way of viewing things. We must take into consideration
everything we have done up to this point in our life and use it in
shaping our thoughts. Then we use those thoughts to analyze,
reject, embrace, and/or argue with the work of others in order to grow
intellectually.
Hillary is sure doing some good thinking and what’s really cool is that she is modeling that thinking for the kids.
And I’m starting to soar again…..
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