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Okay reading on, Fernette & Eide’s Neurolearning Blog (2005) research on Weblogs in schools, in that it : promotes critical & analytical thinking; nurtures creative, intuitive, & associational thinking; analogical thinking; a medium for increasing access & exposure to quality information; combines the best of solitary reflection & social interaction.

A ton of schools have adopted this as part of the curriculum creating a safe-space within their portals. Older students are able to use it with ease. My thoughts are with adequate scaffolding, primary learners (who are so tech savvy) will enjoy putting their literacy skills to work, thus keeping up with the times.

What is your personality style?

1) Dolphin: idealist, enthusiast, inspirational, sooperative

2) Beaver: guardian, dutiful, cautious, stabilizing

3) OwL: traditional, pragmatic, rational, strategic

4) Fox: focused on here & now, trouble-shootong

We need to be sure of who we are to make a difference.

So what if  you can’t be in another part of the world.  The world is now smaller than what meets the eye–thanks to ‘skype.’   Over the next 2 weeks, I will be using this cool tool to teach a series of 3 lessons to the children of Promise in Calcutta, India.  Using ‘dual language’ texts (Bengali -to-English), the idea is to read a fable, a text on sports, and a math text.  All three are picture books.  After I read it to them in both languages, we’ll discuss the themes. The teachers there will create charts and then the children will create multi-genre written texts.

So hopefully this will be an enriching experience for all of us.  I know for sure it’ll make me more tech savvy, and hopefully I will be able to upload some snapshots of it.

How great will it be when every child on this planet can be empowered to think for each other…be agents for change, shoulder-to-shoulder. As an educator and as a mother this is what I pray for…and collectively we can make it happen. Support this cause and you help reshape the world…the future.

This is a drawing board, an ongoing venue to sound out new ideas, recycle old ones that worked and remix.

Come join me as we CREATE & REUSE.

Happy Blogging!