Wow and Oh No! I don't know about anyone else but when I started reading this book I realized that I need to change how I teach writing if I truly want my students to be where they should be digitally and as writer. I am so guilty of teacher students about the writing and its processes versus how to be writers.
I took some time the other day to look at the writing my students have done in their journals this year and started to think about how wrong I have been to require the students to only focus on the topics I have chosen. It has been about the writing process and not have a chance to express themselves as a writer. I like the idea found on page 21 about using Really Simple Syndication (RSS) to find information on the web that is important to them and then being able to take that information, thinking about it, and formulate information from what they have chosen. I feel, especially after reading these two chapters, that students need to be more involved in the process of choosing what they will write about. If it necessary for a topic to be the same for the entire class then I should make sure their are some choices within the topic. For example, we learned about carnivorous plants the other week in class. If I wanted the students to write about these plants then the students could research to find out which carnivorous plant they want to write about and go from there. I do not have to give each students a specific plant and say research and write about this.
I feel like once again my brain is in overload with ideas and information and I am just at the end of chapter two with this book. Now on to chapter 3 :)
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