Wow. I can't believe it is so common for first grade level students to be commenting on and keeping up with their own blogs-somehting I had never done until edm 310 in college. Their enthusiasm was inspiring, something I wish I had to look forward to with high schoolers but oh well. There will always be those students that will stay motivated no matter what. It's just crazy to think about the fact that I'm not even teaching yet and all the first graders are already almost as technologically literate as I am. By the time I'm teaching, it seems like they'll e ahead of me, which makes me think about how advanced the high schoolers I teach will be.... just food for thought. I just know I need to keep up with technology, because I'm definitely going to need it!
Students do love an audience, as does everyone else. Everyone does better when they know they have an audience. Especially when they get good feed back from their audience. I never really had all of this technology in high school, and I'm probably going to teach in that same school system so I'm hoping they've come a long way by the time I start teaching, because I think that the support system from not only your school system, and principal but also fellow teachers is very important. I hope that all those teachers like Ms. Cassidy get programs going in their schools (against all odds) so our school systems that are a little slow can catch up, and stop holding our students back.
".... just food for thought." A metaphor!
ReplyDeleteIf your school is still stuck in a run (another metaphor!), lead them out of the morass that they are in!