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Friday, February 11, 2011
Writing in the 21st Century Blog Post
Hello my fellow classmates! I look forward to blogging with you all in the near future. My past posts are from my Master's courses. Feel free to check them out.
This week, we are supposed to create a question about writing in the 21st century. The following question is one of great interest to me. I feel like many teachers are ready to begin, if not already, writing in the 21st century in their classrooms. Why do I feel like our school administrators have a different idea about 21st century writing than our professors in these courses?
Over the past 3 years, I have been learning how to implement technology into my classroom. Recently, the technology people from the district re imaged my computer. They also linked it to the district server. Internet tools I have been using are now a struggle to get to because of the filters. My computer as a whole works slower. I lost files from past programs on my computer. Even the timing of the re image seems funny. In the middle of the year? Why not in the summer? I just feel like I am getting mixed messages. How many times has someone told you to be really careful about blogging in your classroom? You never know who is accessing your blog pages. It always seems like an administrator is discouraging you by putting the fear of a potential problem in your head. It also seems like our school is focusing this semester on improving certain areas of the paper pencil writing section of the CSAP test. Many LA teachers have been told to scrap the CAP and focus on a specific area of the CSAP test because the district predicts scores to be low. Which is more important, writing in the 21st century or passing the CSAP handwritten test?
This week, we are supposed to create a question about writing in the 21st century. The following question is one of great interest to me. I feel like many teachers are ready to begin, if not already, writing in the 21st century in their classrooms. Why do I feel like our school administrators have a different idea about 21st century writing than our professors in these courses?
Over the past 3 years, I have been learning how to implement technology into my classroom. Recently, the technology people from the district re imaged my computer. They also linked it to the district server. Internet tools I have been using are now a struggle to get to because of the filters. My computer as a whole works slower. I lost files from past programs on my computer. Even the timing of the re image seems funny. In the middle of the year? Why not in the summer? I just feel like I am getting mixed messages. How many times has someone told you to be really careful about blogging in your classroom? You never know who is accessing your blog pages. It always seems like an administrator is discouraging you by putting the fear of a potential problem in your head. It also seems like our school is focusing this semester on improving certain areas of the paper pencil writing section of the CSAP test. Many LA teachers have been told to scrap the CAP and focus on a specific area of the CSAP test because the district predicts scores to be low. Which is more important, writing in the 21st century or passing the CSAP handwritten test?
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