This was a blog about “A Teachers Life.” She has several different blog posts all the time about different things going on. The one I read was “Why don’t schools get rid of the crappy stuff.” I read her top 10 ideas about things we could easily get rid of in a school, and I really liked her point about teachers needing to stop complaining about parents, saying some parents are way to involved, while complaining about others not being involved enough. She had some good points for a new teacher to think about. I was surprised at how many blogs she had, and how busy her website was!
This was a blog from a girl in her first year of college. I enjoyed reading through her blogs because we have all been there, and felt like we were in too deep with all of the new responsibilities. I think this would be a great blog to share with high-school students who are getting ready to go off to college. I really liked how easy it was to navigate her website, and I was able to easily figure out what things were where.
This blog has all different posts about the role technology plays. The blog I read was called Home vs. School: The best 21st Century Learning Environment. She was talking about how at school children have limited time to computer access but at home many children have at least 1 if not more like 5 or 6 different types of internet access and technology at home. They have many devices connected to broadband access. The children at home have a constant feedback loop with repeated opportunities for reading, listening, and watching content and on-going collaboration. I thought her points were very interesting. I was also surprised, because to me it seems that too much technology could also be damaging if that’s all children do. I think that providing a “free time” on computers for children at school would be a great idea so that they can explore things like youtube.
I really liked this blog website! It’s called Linking and thinking on Education, but Joanne Jacobs. She covers so many topics, and her writing is very clear. I really liked on the left side all of her topics are in alphabetical order, so it’s easy to navigate. I think this would be a really neat site to follow as a teacher because she has so many open thoughts for me to think about.
Overall- I was amazed by how many blogs there are to follow that are about education! It was almost overwhelming because every site had the “top 100” and so many of them were really good. I was quickly turned off when the pages looked hard to navigate. I think these will be very beneficial to know about because it’s always nice to know about teachers who may be going through the same thing you are going through, and to read about their experiences.
