Friday, December 09, 2005

Student Created Blogs

Here is a comment on one of Jesse's posts:

Mr. Craig, remember me from bio? I think that your blog on Creation vs. Evolution is fantastic. I believe that discussions over controversial topics are a way to promote students to be more open-minded. I would appreciate it if you read my entry on your blog and if you (or anyone that reads this) would go to my blog, http://simonvskenneth.blogspot.com/ to witness an outside of school discussion of religon vs. atheism. Feel free to post your thoughts. Evolution is a hot topic. Thanks.


And I believe the same thing happened in Kristin's class - students created a separate blog to talk about some things they wanted to discuss. I think it's interesting that some of our work has now spawned students discussing - on their own time and their own intiative - some very important issues.

4 comments:

  1. Some of the things that have been written on Simon's blog are very interesting. You should check it out!

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  2. I cannot believe the conversations that are going on about this topic. It is terrific.

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  3. I love the fact that these learners are taking things a step farther. James is right, the conversations are amazing. Could you imagine what class would be like if we had the time/freedom to entertain these types of discussions?

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  4. The thing that strikes me most from the three individuals is NOT the level of their debate as all three are very bright. Instead it is the fact that 2 of the 3 rarely spoke in class. It was a class that, in my mind, was geared towards discussion, but I could not get two to play very often. The other seemed to hold back this level of thought. Wow.

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