Seek Find Be

Jeff Utecht sets the record straight on the possibilities of education blogging. He writes, “if you do not bring the conversation back into the classroom, they are no different from assignments written on paper”. Time is a constant constrain in the classroom and possibly I reason why blogs are being used in limited short term applications. Yet Utecht’s comment highlights the need to create writing prompts on enduring themes over the course of the year. All class should have curricular cohesion and blogging is a great way to sustain a long-term conversation between students and students, students and teachers, and the class members and communities that can be brought into a blog discussions. Utecht does well to state that blogs are a great new tool and the enemy is the eighteenth century operating system that continues to guide most public schools in the United States.