tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2284837106090895124.post8637051717512585746..comments2024-02-23T00:36:49.934-08:00Comments on Throughlines: English 2.0Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2284837106090895124.post-54498250456424767972007-02-07T19:24:00.000-08:002007-02-07T19:24:00.000-08:00Hi Bruce,Yes, I don't mean to jump down your neck....Hi Bruce,<BR/>Yes, I don't mean to jump down your neck... I'm just wearying of all the "2.0" stuff, and I took it out on you. I just think it is so much more fruitful to focus on how technologies can support what we know to be best practices.Tom Hoffmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08577165613934129833noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2284837106090895124.post-57470697960012614542007-02-06T03:56:00.000-08:002007-02-06T03:56:00.000-08:00Tom, I'm not sure I understand your "progressive e...Tom, I'm not sure I understand your "progressive education plus the internet" comment correctly (my haste, not your fault), but the read-write web is transforming reading, writing, and consciousness (sounds grand, but I swear I have evidence galore) in my grade 9 classroom in Korea.<br /><br />Blogs change "school" reading and writing in one way, but no time to get into that now. <br /><br />Because I just want to share how another tool--wikis--transform school reading and writing in another way. I'll let my students speak for themselves. I just posted their reflections on their first grade 9-wide wiki "writing-to-learn" project on my blog, here: http://burell.blogspot.com/2007/02/learner-reflections-after-month-one-of.html <br /><br />I, at least, found their comments shockingly surprising--and almost all for the good.<br /><br />I really like this blog and its comments. Glad I found it :)CBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11236657531187596253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2284837106090895124.post-49591995431586046532007-02-06T00:32:00.000-08:002007-02-06T00:32:00.000-08:00Maybe it is going to be "just" progressive educati...Maybe it <b>is</b> going to be "just" progressive education plus the internet. Or maybe it's going to be something more broad-ranging and more complex. I don't know yet. I'm not writing a book. I don't have a program to sell. I don't have it all in my head ready to be laid out there. The daily blog entries are for me a kind of open notebook, and I'm writing it to try to clarify, mostly for myself, what I'm thinking, and right now I have more questions than answers.<br /><br /><br />If by cutting to the chase you mean spelling out exactly what a new vision of the discipline would look like, I can't answer that yet. I'm trying to figure it out. I have some hunches, I have some suspicions, I have my classes working on some new things, including blogs and wikis, which I will report on as time permits, and I've got ideas about things I haven't tried yet but will be able to next year when, for the first time, all of the freshmean students in the high school will be arriving in class with laptops. The following year, they'll arrive in my classes as sophs. The conversation we've been having on my campus for the last two years has been about how we're going to use technology to enhance instruction. When we began that discussion, most of us had no idea. Right now, I've got a good sense of some places to start.<br /><br />I've already written about a number of specific concepts and beliefs that shape my current teaching, and that's been clarifying for me. It is my intention, as I continue working in the context of this blog, to address other specific issues and activities, one or two at a time, as they come up in my teaching or in my thinking. I'm not in a hurry to nail it all down. But as I think of how much has changed in the last five years, even in the last two, I suspect we're on the verge of a whole new way of doing things.Bruce Schaublehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11663735635816558661noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2284837106090895124.post-76152312619972477082007-02-05T22:54:00.000-08:002007-02-05T22:54:00.000-08:00But aren't you just going to end up with "progress...But aren't you just going to end up with "progressive education plus the internet?" I mean, those are two of my favorite things, so I'm ok with that, but can't we cut to the chase?Tom Hoffmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08577165613934129833noreply@blogger.com