Whenever I’m learning something new, I like it when I find opportunities to go directly to the source. On this blog, students, our consumers, write about teaching and learning using Web 2.0. However, as one student insisted, they are different from past generations because they are not consumers. They are a generation of producers, and they expect to produce in their classrooms as well as in their daily lives.
What impressed me about this project is that the students’ ideas are quite well thought out and insightful. Not all posts are accepted, so it’s clear that the selection process is thorough and thoughtful. The blog I was thinking of creating for classroom use would have been different as I had planned to design one in which all students’ work would be accepted, but I like the idea of having a blog for which students’ work had to reach a certain level before being published.
