Interestingly enough, this article suggests that teachers need to communicate about their profession using the new digital technologies. I guess we are ahead of the curve there as many of you already do this and I have just invited the whole dept to join this blog. It suggests that kids need to use the new technologies to do more than interact socially. Richarson suggests all kids should have a serious presence on the web by publishing their best work.
This article could practically be a blueprint for a big chunk of what the pilot project is doing. One of my main philosophies this year has been to turn academic writing back into what it was always supposed to be: a genuine expression of one's ideas for consumption in a public forum of other intellectuals.
The writer thinks a big bigger in terms of having students build an online presence that they can use later as proof of their best qualities, but I'm happy to start small and simply give a paper on _Nine_Stories_ a real spark of life as a statement of personal perspective for an academic community of 27 other kids in a class.
Interestingly enough, this article suggests that teachers need to communicate about their profession using the new digital technologies. I guess we are ahead of the curve there as many of you already do this and I have just invited the whole dept to join this blog. It suggests that kids need to use the new technologies to do more than interact socially. Richarson suggests all kids should have a serious presence on the web by publishing their best work.
ReplyDeleteThis article could practically be a blueprint for a big chunk of what the pilot project is doing. One of my main philosophies this year has been to turn academic writing back into what it was always supposed to be: a genuine expression of one's ideas for consumption in a public forum of other intellectuals.
ReplyDeleteThe writer thinks a big bigger in terms of having students build an online presence that they can use later as proof of their best qualities, but I'm happy to start small and simply give a paper on _Nine_Stories_ a real spark of life as a statement of personal perspective for an academic community of 27 other kids in a class.