Comments on: Let Them Eat Cake. Or Write About It. http://theline.edublogs.org/2007/12/11/let-them-eat-cake-or-write-about-it/ Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:44:39 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: dstrasser http://theline.edublogs.org/2007/12/11/let-them-eat-cake-or-write-about-it/comment-page-1/#comment-75 dstrasser Sun, 20 Jan 2008 19:58:48 +0000 http://theline.edublogs.org/2007/12/11/let-them-eat-cake-or-write-about-it/#comment-75 We use quite a nice model for writing called 6+1 Traits, which lends itself well to the "one aspect of writing at a time" revision approach. Esp. helpful for second language learners and the muddle of adolescent brainage in general. And if you think I actually "get through all that essay grading" with any success right now, you are dead wrong. I SO envy you math people occasionally, especially around state assessment time. :) Learning, learning, learning... We use quite a nice model for writing called 6+1 Traits, which lends itself well to the “one aspect of writing at a time” revision approach. Esp. helpful for second language learners and the muddle of adolescent brainage in general.

And if you think I actually “get through all that essay grading” with any success right now, you are dead wrong. I SO envy you math people occasionally, especially around state assessment time. :) Learning, learning, learning…

]]> By: H. http://theline.edublogs.org/2007/12/11/let-them-eat-cake-or-write-about-it/comment-page-1/#comment-74 H. Sun, 20 Jan 2008 19:49:40 +0000 http://theline.edublogs.org/2007/12/11/let-them-eat-cake-or-write-about-it/#comment-74 Sounds a bit like TMAO's "flatbooks" - notebooks in which his kids write an entry about anything every week, gluing in tickets or other flat items as they wish. He corrects one particular type of error (the students know which) each time - punctuation, capitalization, I don't know - each time, and leaves other errors alone, so that the entries are not red inked all over. At the end of the year he has them rereading their early entries, and they ask him how he could ever have let them write that way. There are times it sounds like more fun to teach English... but I don't know how you folks get through all that essay grading :) Sounds a bit like TMAO’s “flatbooks” – notebooks in which his kids write an entry about anything every week, gluing in tickets or other flat items as they wish. He corrects one particular type of error (the students know which) each time – punctuation, capitalization, I don’t know – each time, and leaves other errors alone, so that the entries are not red inked all over. At the end of the year he has them rereading their early entries, and they ask him how he could ever have let them write that way.

There are times it sounds like more fun to teach English… but I don’t know how you folks get through all that essay grading :)

]]> By: Alex Ragone http://theline.edublogs.org/2007/12/11/let-them-eat-cake-or-write-about-it/comment-page-1/#comment-35 Alex Ragone Thu, 13 Dec 2007 04:58:43 +0000 http://theline.edublogs.org/2007/12/11/let-them-eat-cake-or-write-about-it/#comment-35 Dina -- It's so exciting to see new posts on your blog. I'm hooked! I find it hard to believe that your post is not common sense in schools. It's so scary and sad. How can we not trust our students to write. As educators, we see it all the time. A couple of resources you might want to check into to start your mind down the student blogging front. Teachers Teaching Teachers is a weekly webcast (live on Wednesday's at 9PM EST at www.edtechtalk.com and then released as a podcast a few days later) that has a middle school blogging environment that is a walled garden so it is not open to the public called personallearningspace.com. Clarence Fisher at <a href="http://remoteaccess.typepad.com" rel="nofollow">Remote Access</a>. His most recent post has many parallels to this one as he discusses giving students choices. And Last but not least, Konrad Glogowski at the <a href="http://teachandlearn.ca/blog/" rel="nofollow">blog of proximal development </a>. These webcasters/bloggers really do a great job changing my lens each time I read them. I think you'll enjoy them. - Alex Dina — It’s so exciting to see new posts on your blog. I’m hooked!

I find it hard to believe that your post is not common sense in schools. It’s so scary and sad. How can we not trust our students to write. As educators, we see it all the time.

A couple of resources you might want to check into to start your mind down the student blogging front. Teachers Teaching Teachers is a weekly webcast (live on Wednesday’s at 9PM EST at http://www.edtechtalk.com and then released as a podcast a few days later) that has a middle school blogging environment that is a walled garden so it is not open to the public called personallearningspace.com.

Clarence Fisher at Remote Access. His most recent post has many parallels to this one as he discusses giving students choices.

And Last but not least, Konrad Glogowski at the blog of proximal development .

These webcasters/bloggers really do a great job changing my lens each time I read them. I think you’ll enjoy them.

- Alex

]]> By: Art Gelwicks http://theline.edublogs.org/2007/12/11/let-them-eat-cake-or-write-about-it/comment-page-1/#comment-34 Art Gelwicks Wed, 12 Dec 2007 17:34:17 +0000 http://theline.edublogs.org/2007/12/11/let-them-eat-cake-or-write-about-it/#comment-34 The ability to make choices effectively is one of the most powerful things we can teach our students. Integrating this into the classroom helps them succeed on their own so much sooner. Great observation! The ability to make choices effectively is one of the most powerful things we can teach our students. Integrating this into the classroom helps them succeed on their own so much sooner. Great observation!

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