http://terrydolson.net/blog/2007/02/28/a-real-assessment-of-teaching/ making it up as I go along Sun, 07 Sep 2008 19:00:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://terrydolson.net/blog/2007/02/28/a-real-assessment-of-teaching/#comment-11600 Meme:Passion Quilt : compos(t)ing Sun, 23 Mar 2008 22:24:24 +0000 http://terrydolson.net/blog/2007/02/28/a-real-assessment-of-teaching/#comment-11600 [...] life product involved, when they feel that someone needs them and that what they create matters. I have written before about what I think of as my most successful class ever. I will never, never forget how I felt when I saw what had been a rag-tag bunch of flip-flop clad [...] […] life product involved, when they feel that someone needs them and that what they create matters. I have written before about what I think of as my most successful class ever. I will never, never forget how I felt when I saw what had been a rag-tag bunch of flip-flop clad […]

]]> http://terrydolson.net/blog/2007/02/28/a-real-assessment-of-teaching/#comment-2428 LeeC Mon, 26 Mar 2007 16:10:54 +0000 http://terrydolson.net/blog/2007/02/28/a-real-assessment-of-teaching/#comment-2428 What exciting ideas! Writing, like spoken language, is a technology that is so familiar that its power has become invisible to us. However, when teachers foreground these practices *as* technology to help students contextualize their learning and to highlight the crucial importance of alphabetic literacy for intellectual development, we begin to build a bridge of interest that can be useful to the digital natives we're encountering in our classrooms. The excitement over digital technology can be a motivator for strengthening primary alphabetic skills and discussing the specific strengths and weaknesses of our various media of communication. What exciting ideas! Writing, like spoken language, is a technology that is so familiar that its power has become invisible to us. However, when teachers foreground these practices *as* technology to help students contextualize their learning and to highlight the crucial importance of alphabetic literacy for intellectual development, we begin to build a bridge of interest that can be useful to the digital natives we’re encountering in our classrooms. The excitement over digital technology can be a motivator for strengthening primary alphabetic skills and discussing the specific strengths and weaknesses of our various media of communication.

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