Last Friday, on the third day of school, I introduced my students to our classroom blog. I barely had time to show them the login process, go over the Bloggers Contract, and give out passwords. We ran out of time.
Over the weekend, one student published an article, and another started one and saved it to finish later. I had not showed them how to do this - they just figured it out - from home.
My students are are third graders, 8 and 9 years old.
I've been doing this long enough to realize that every year my next group of third graders comes into my classroom a little more facile in dealing with technology, but this was really, really surprising.
Tonight, a third student submitted a blog post. They are so ready.
2 comments:
Mark, that is so cool! I was just thinking the other day about how Eleanor will grow up in a world where computers, the internet, wi-fi, blogging and social networking are just the norm and not "cool and new". Love it!
Right, and hopefully not so scary for the oldsters, either! :) Thanks - Mark
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