Thursday, December 8, 2011
My Feelings on the 21st century Classroom
I really love the fact that our class gets to blog. Blogging has helped me understand the books way better than just simply writing an essay about them. Usually people, myself included, will just take the essay prompt without even reading the whole entire book and just look at the book for answers for all the essay problems. But Blogging is different than that. Since we blog every week, I instead read my book step by step and blog as we go each week. I love how we divide blogging into each week because it is way easier to do it that way. Its also cool because instead of having a six page paper due in like a week we do a page a week due in six weeks which is one of the best things about blogging. I also really think the fact that we get to communicate with other schools about blogging is also awesome. In our school Mrs. Hayes is pretty much the only teacher that does blogging from what I've heard. But since we have been communicating with Fremd we have found another school that blogs. Its also awesome to see their viewpoints on the books that I have read and even on some books that I haven't read yet. It helps me look at the books in a different way and helps me overall understand what they are talking about.
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Nick -- I think we're getting a good look at what schools and learning will be like in the future as our two schools go beyond the classroom walls and bell schedules.
ReplyDeleteI really enjoy the fact that our classes get to blog together. It's really nice to see everybody's ideas and opinions on all the books that we read.
DeleteHi! I'm Connor from Fremd and I would have to agree with you 100%! I love bloggin because it gets you creative juices flowing. You are not stuck writing a boring six page paper. With blogging you are able to basically write a personal review on a book that you wanted to read vs one you reluctantly did. Plus you are able to view other people's opinions and discover new books that students your age are reading. I recently wrote a blog about the Fremd English Ning and blogging in general. You should check it out via the website URL below. Great post! Keep up the great blogging!
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Thanks Connor, Your ning post was a really good read also. It seems like our opinions on blogging are alike. I look forward to reading your future blog posts.
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