Blog Post 10

What can we learn from Ms. Cassidy?

After watching the interviews with Ms. Cassidy and this video of her class, I was very impressed with how she jumped straight into using technology and learned about it along with her class. There were five computers for her class and she wanted to take advantage of having such items to work with. Ms. Cassidy is aware of how the world is changing and that we need to prepare our future leaders for the lives that are ahead of them. I really liked how she said there is a shift happening when it comes to the way we should react to our kids looking at other peoples' work. As teachers, we should motivate our students to help one another and teach them how to be collaborative with all of their work. We should discourage them to think it is "cheating" and teach them that helping one another is a better way for anyone to learn. If students are taught at a young age to be able to collaborate and work with groups, and teachers not drill it in their head that if they're looking at someones paper it is wrong and they will get in trouble; Then maybe students would never try to "cheat" to begin with. Right?

I would definitely use blogs for my classroom. I would have each student have one individually, and have one for our entire class as well. Students get more excited to write to an audience than they would just writing to their teacher. People from all over the world can see their blog, read it, comment on it, and parents can keep up with what their child is doing too.