So the beauty of working part time at the airport I get access to international press.
Today I picked up Monday's USA Today and turned to page 9B which had the most interesting article "Teachers speak out of turn"
Which then immersed me into this whole world of teachers who use Blogs as their active option to speak out about their profession. Whether it be sharing their day to day adventures or whether it be dealing with education and how it handled within the world of politics.
Here is part of that article:
When the fed-up young teacher decided to quit her job in rural North Carolina in June, her resignation letter was brief — three lines. But she had more to say. So she spoke her mind online, in an anonymous, 1,000-word Internet posting to her principal that recounted in grim detail racist teachers, obligatory prayers at faculty meetings, "What would Jesus do?" lectures and a "terrible" vice principal who "tries to sleep with the coaches." Although all names, including those of the school and city, were withheld, the letter was widely read. For three years, the thirtysomething teacher had been writing a popular Internet weblog, or blog, under the pseudonym First Year Teacher. She's one of hundreds of teachers who blog these days, uploading details from their daily lives for a firsthand look at the maddening, exhilarating, often heartbreaking world of the modern public school. Perhaps because they are so raw and unscripted, teacher blogs — often written anonymously for fear of reprisal — are finding an audience.
The rest of the article can be located at here: Teachers Speak out of Turn
Some of the interesting blogs that I have since discovered include:
Shut Up And Teach!
This blog has recently been looking at the "No Child Left Behind" legislation which Congress passed in 2001. It gives a critical overview of the legislation and points out that once again.. teachers have been forgotten in the process and that education in the US is still focusing on "testing" students knowledge.
Teacher In Development
Aaron Nelson is a business English teacher in Mexico city and his blog is dedicated to exploring student centered learning with thoughtful posts regarding teaching in the 21st century and encouraging learner autonomy. He also refers to many other blogs that are equally as useful/insightful.
And for now that's all folks!
Cheers
L.J
Homework:
Who stated this fantastic quote?
"Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another"
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gee Thanks Rachel much appreciated.
I've tried hard to make this thing interesting and it's great to get positive feedback :)
ICT can often come across so daunting as it has such a broad scope of possiblities but is definatley something worth embracing as computers are never going to go away :-D