The Blue Blog

 Link to Jenni’s writing: http://morri246.edublogs.org/2006/01/29/reading-response-3-michigan-state-
board-of-education/
I would like to respond to Jenni’s comments on the Michigan Board of Education’s suggestion that all students take an online course before they graduate high school.  When I glanced over the article, my immediate response was, well, why not?  It seems to me that online course taking would be beneficial [...]

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            After reading the first few statistics-ridden pages of thie article on adult literacy, I can already feel a familiar objection to the report surfacing.  After all of the data is collected, the figures are added up, and the margin of error calculated, I think that studies such as this do not serve any actual [...]

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Article: Computer Games ‘Motivate Pupils’: BBC News, Friday, Jan. 13
 
Web address: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/4608942.stm
 
            When I was growing up, my parents would not budge an inch when my older sister or I talked about video games.  They refused to buy any kind of game system for us because, in their opinion, the games would consume our [...]

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Within two chapters, Lankshear and Knobel quickly present many different ideas about literacy, but there are a few that I think are the most important in terms of the changing world we live in.  In the first chapter, the idea of “multiliteracies” is explored, and I was impressed with the focus given on literacy needed [...]

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As a student of social studies, English, and occasionally Spanish as well, I have come to realize that nothing that can be taught is confined to one area of study.  Geography, history, cultural studies, economics, politics, and literature written in any language all overlap in content, and subject matter from all disciplines can be used [...]

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