Sunday, February 21, 2010
Social Bookmarking and the dreaded "Research Paper"
After reading Troy Hick's chapter about SSR and Social Bookmarking I felt like this was really a new way to attack the researach paper. A way that would truly involve students and foster critical thinking. Coming up with a topic based on their interest and then re-fining that topic to produce a true research paper, would prove to be creative and fun for students, rather than dull, and boring--just another assignment. However, what was posted on another blog, explains this as a problem because our district creates the way a researach paper should be taught and what sites are blocked by the district. So the question becomes, how do we convince our district to help teachers instruct taking full advantage of the sources at hand while serving the needs of our students for 21st century thinking? Olga, if you respond to this blog, please give some advice.
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Colleen, the district blocks anything they consider a forum. Maybe we, as the digital writing class, need to submit a request to the district. After all, is this not the mantra of the superintendent, that students be masters of technology in order to compete in the 21st century world? I feel like our students are going to fall behind in this critical literacy area if we don't do something soon.
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