As I continue this experiment in getting kids to think about their math in text, I am seeing a few different reactions from the kids. Unfortunately as time get tight it is hard to keep this in place, even though I think it is just as important as the Math games they are playing.
The students are feeling slighted if we lose track of time and don't get to go to kidblog, they want to do this. They have asked if they can go and work on the posts first so they have enough time to express themselves. That was very exciting for me. So far they have just responded to my posts and have not gotten to the posting of the own posts yet, at least not posting discussion type of posts. A few basic and irrelevant posts have popped up. I approve all the posts and comments as long as they are not derogatory or offensive, to act as a learning tool. But they are making progress towards developing discussion based posts and threads. Most of the students excited about communicating in this form and I am hopeful that we will be able to sustain this project in a meaningful way. I have still not been able to get the 5th grade project started due to a lack in returned permission forms. It is a time to revisit our approach and get this started.
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