tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19457872.post4897292681859650353..comments2024-03-26T23:57:42.268-04:00Comments on SpeEdChange: Multimedia Literature: Rethinking English Classirasocolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01412837280249622430noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19457872.post-33051117285774442592010-05-22T06:44:58.636-04:002010-05-22T06:44:58.636-04:00Hey Ira,
I went to a school that looked like a ca...Hey Ira,<br /><br />I went to a school that <a href="http://kwu.edu/" rel="nofollow">looked like a castle</a> too!<br /><br />As usual, there's so much to digest here. I've heard about using twitter for constructing a backchannel discussion in a classroom. Today's Meet looks like a handy way to do it with or without twitter. I <a href="http://todaysmeet.com/Wakonse" rel="nofollow">set up a room</a> to experiment with for the upcoming <a href="http://www.wakonse.org" rel="nofollow">Wakonse conference</a> I'll be attending in Michigan next week. It will be interesting to see what develops from that as there are always outstanding college educators who show up for that.<br /><br />I always struggle to foster discussions in my class, mostly because I don't plan them out well in advance. Maybe your discussion tool will help me in this a little.<br /><br />I ran across <a href="http://blog.mrmeyer.com/" rel="nofollow">this teacher</a>, Dan Meyer recently and thought of you. He talks about teaching math with some of the methods you are describing. If you think about it, the Math teacher faces some of the same problems that an English teacher faces with kids who can't read. For whatever reason, many kids don't "get" the language of Math (I was one of them). But through thoughtful discussions and encouraging thinking outside of traditional ways, I suspect he's reaching a lot more kids than the average Math educator. What do you think?Bill Genereuxhttp://billgx.edublogs.orgnoreply@blogger.com