Blog Example #17 - Classroom Discussions January 2, 2008
Posted by Matthew Woolums in 21st-Century, Edublogs.trackback
Sometimes students are intimidated by a classroom of their peers and are reluctant to talk in front of others. Making judicious use of a blog is one way to allow participation on the part of all students. In this post on the Morey Matters blog from M. Dame, students contribute their own ideas on what skills they think are most important for the 21st century. The comments from the students are insightful and who better to ask than those who will need the skills themselves? Here are a couple of examples:
The internet has a vast amount of information, some of it creditable and some of it not. As research on the internet is necessary for completing high school, not to mention collage, it is important to learn how to find creditable information among the vast amount of junk.
It is important to know how to send a formal email because you cannot talk to a dean or someone from a future school you want to attend in shorthand. It’s not acceptable to say “im glad 2 apply 4 dis skool.”
To be successful in this generation you must need to know how to operate simple machines. It comes easy to us, but if you have the capacity to learn more you should. It will come in handy throughout the rest of your life.
I think that the children of today need to be able to design applications for computers as well as be able to fix and build one.
http://mdame.edublogs.org/2007/11/28/21st-century-literacy-skills/
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