Getting to the heart of writing/blogging
Konrad has a way with words! His post, Against “Writers’ Welfare” expresses what is so important to develop as we develop our community of bloggers. He says…..
refer to as “voiceless writers” who depend on using the adopted voices
they have been taught to use in their writing to independent, creative,
and engaged writers who learn to find their own voice and whose
interactions within a community of writers lead them to acquire
confidence and become aware of the power of the written word - their written word.
He has lots of good
references and quotes. I love when the talk is about writing. And I
love the learning, the shaping and reshaping of ideas, and the
think-rethink process that weblogs encourage. Writing/blogging really
does benefit learning. We need to encourage, cheer our students on and
work at releasing them from trying to write for us or for a grade.
Their personalities and thoughts can come through and wow, think of all
the learning there for us!
I hope more educators will get their students blogging and open that
blogging up to the public so that it begins to be perceived as a
powerful medium for thinking. That’s the heart of writing/blogging.
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