Comments on: Avoiding Dead End Blogging in the Classroom http://www.edtechtesol.org/blog/2007/10/28/avoiding-dead-end-blogging-in-the-classroom/ Discussion and Exploration into Technology and Language Learning Mon, 12 Dec 2011 12:38:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Stephen Henneberry http://www.edtechtesol.org/blog/2007/10/28/avoiding-dead-end-blogging-in-the-classroom/comment-page-1/#comment-59 Stephen Henneberry Sat, 10 Nov 2007 09:38:27 +0000 http://www.edtechtesol.org/blog/2007/10/28/avoiding-dead-end-blogging-in-the-classroom/#comment-59 Exactly! "Where is the teaching?" Is it that teachers assume that these tools have become "normalized"? Is it that teachers themselves don't know how to use them? Do the teachers simply assume that as their students are "digital natives" that they don't require instruction? Do teachers assume "If you build it, they will come"? But, what if they don't know what to do once they arrive? Just because Kevin Costner built a baseball diamond in a cornfield, and pro ball players arrived out of the mist ready to play, doesn't mean that we enjoy the same luxury. In real life you get a group of kids who walk on the field and ask "Now what?", and that is when the coaching begins... Exactly! “Where is the teaching?”

Is it that teachers assume that these tools have become “normalized”? Is it that teachers themselves don’t know how to use them?
Do the teachers simply assume that as their students are “digital natives” that they don’t require instruction?

Do teachers assume “If you build it, they will come”? But, what if they don’t know what to do once they arrive? Just because Kevin Costner built a baseball diamond in a cornfield, and pro ball players arrived out of the mist ready to play, doesn’t mean that we enjoy the same luxury. In real life you get a group of kids who walk on the field and ask “Now what?”, and that is when the coaching begins…

]]> By: Ryan Bretag http://www.edtechtesol.org/blog/2007/10/28/avoiding-dead-end-blogging-in-the-classroom/comment-page-1/#comment-34 Ryan Bretag Sun, 28 Oct 2007 12:56:54 +0000 http://www.edtechtesol.org/blog/2007/10/28/avoiding-dead-end-blogging-in-the-classroom/#comment-34 Hi Stephen: As you said, teachers need to introduce students to the whole scope of blogging. However, it is often merely assigned as we've done with so many other pieces of technology: create a powerpoint, create a graph in excel, create a blog post, create a podcast, and on and on. Where is the teaching? Nice post and thanks for the recommendation on my blog post. Hi Stephen:

As you said, teachers need to introduce students to the whole scope of blogging. However, it is often merely assigned as we’ve done with so many other pieces of technology: create a powerpoint, create a graph in excel, create a blog post, create a podcast, and on and on.

Where is the teaching?

Nice post and thanks for the recommendation on my blog post.

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