Simon Scott's blog - professional reading

After reading Simon's Blog Post reflect about what strategy or new approach you could take in your classroom/hub/studio.

http://alearnersjourney81.blogspot.com/2016/06/blogging-has-it-made-difference.html

The most important part of this process has been teaching the children how to comment on other children posts.  They follow the 3 steps of write something positive, thoughtful and helpful.

Completely agree with this statement. Moving past the "shallow" comments to promote indepth thinking and learning has been key.

By following this template it has stopped children from giving shallow feedback like 'Good work',  'Awesome, well done!'.  Their comments now are full of advice or questions that promote further learning or initiate a learning conversation.  But the biggest impact to the students learning has been the improvement of punctuation in their writing.  This has been transformational!  Through the combination of the  3 steps to writing a comment and having an authentic audience the children's punctuation has improved out of sight. 

What is the new strategy?

The goal here is to "cause" learning. The next step will be to encourage whanau/school/families/peers to regularly get on and blog.

What are you thinking about trialing in your learning space?

The expectation of regular blogging. Reflect on them and allow for time to blog. The aim is 8 posts per week. 3 of your own and 5 on other's learning.

What new learning, resources or support could your Manaiakalani Outreach Facilitator provide?

Evidence and professional readings around this would be helpful when encouraging whanau to comment. It is easy to focus on surface features rather than really promoting the deeper level features of what the learning is actually showing.