Will’s on Fire!
This has been a crazy week. I have been on “thinking overload” and “information overload”. It’s one of those weeks when I just can’t get to blogging and good posts are flying and I can’t stop and join the conversation. I need to take my own advice, right?
Alejandro, one of my fifth graders, is making creative use of our language. I love it and a couple of his expressions fit right in with all the outstanding blogging Will has been doing lately.
Alejandro quips:
It was October already and the weblogers were on fire with ideas.
Then he followed up with this:
It was February already, and we were like cheetahs running at top speed.
All this has been on his post so aptly named, My Fist of Learning Power.
Well, Will has been on fire and is like a cheetah running at top speed! (Thanks, Alejandro!)
Will on Blogs Are Content:
But the one thing the blog allows me to do that I could not do easily in my classroom before is to link, to connect ideas, to make transparent my thinking about those ideas, and to have others link to them and do the same. I’ve been down this road before, I know, many times in fact. But it is the essential piece of Weblogs to me: blogs allow me to create content in ways I could not before, not just post what I could create otherwise in a different form. And in the essence of that creation I use and learn all of those skills that will serve me in my lifelong learning that were (I think) much more difficult for me to learn before: close reading, critical thinking about information, clear and concise writing for a real audience, editing, and reflection, all of it understanding that whatever truth I may put forth will continue to be negotiated by readers and more reading. This, by the very nature of the process, develops reading, writing, information, collaboration and computing literacies, literacies which I think most of us would agree are going to be crucial in navigating what’s ahead.
Now, this, as well as his many other good posts, got me to thinking about my Teachers & Technology class. I have a course to teach and it is content and technology overload. I’d be remiss though if I didn’t introduce them to weblogs and try to share this with them. Here’s my attempt today - Your Voice Counts! Class starts in 10 minutes. More later…..
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