Will Richardson is a wonderful teacher, in my opinion. He has such wonderful ideas for his students. I believe that his ideas paved a way for students to become integrated in learning within the World Wide Web community and through themselves. Students are able to be engaged and be involved the interaction of the writing and reading. They have choices in their learning process. Students are able to explore and understand new things that they can’t really do in a classroom because of limitations. They begin to explore new perspective of things or ideas that classroom teachers can’t provide.
Out of everything that the Internet presents the best part is that students become teachers at some point of their learning. They become really connected in the network of learning and engaging in ideas. Since we are on an island that is disconnected geographically from other states, we are limited in terms of communication. With blog students are constantly expanding their learning through outside sources and places.
2 comments:
Char, I really agree with you when it comes to the benefit of blogs connecting the students with the world. Coming from a small island students don't get to travel so much. So, this gives them an opportunity to communicate and voice their thoughts to other students around the world. This could be a great lesson plan for any subject because it promotes writting and communication skills.
I like what you said about students becoming teachers. That is something that would never have happened in the old school. This is the aspect of technology that is really exciting. As Will Richardson said, we become a community lifelong learners.
Barbara
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