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Visible Learners and the Bloggatteer Experience

3/1/2015

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This was our first full week of The Bloggatteer Experience.  We are still learning the ins and outs of the tool, but as we move forward, I can see some benefits:
  • It captivates.  Students can go for an hour, perusing and adding to their blog posts.
  • Students communicate in a new way.  They see their words.
  • Students with poor handwriting and letter reversals can communicate without wondering about how it will look.
  • There is reciprocal learning.  I can monitor their comments and posts in real time and respond to them, either publicly to provoke more thought or privately with suggestions for improvement.
  • Blogging is a part of self-regulated learning.  As we delve deeper into learning goals and strategies, students can see their learning with more clarity.
  • Students are encouraged to create.  Even reluctant writers like the sense of freedom blogging has offered.
  • Every student gets to respond to questions I pose.  They don't have to compete for a turn, and they don't compete to be the first one correct. Each gets to answer with his/her own thoughts (right or wrong).  I get a feel for everyone's level of knowledge and abilities.

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When I place a question on The Bloggatteer Experience, I try to accompany it with a learning intention and some success criteria.  It takes added time for me to do this, but if I can get my class to pay attention to it, it will push them to making better, more robust, replies.  Learning - not teaching - becomes the focus.  Students - not the teacher - become more responsible for their learning.  When it works, the learning becomes more obvious to the learner, and the process of learning is more greatly appreciated.

The very process of learning becomes something that must be taught, and that's where the concept and belief in lifelong learning comes to the stage.  You can imagine that when students looks back upon their learning journeys, they see how far they have become.  A deep sense of accomplishment washes over them.  Like an addictive drug (but in a positive way), they will want more of this feeling, and they will search for ways in which to accomplish more and more in their lives.
PicturePosted Learning Intentions and Success Criteria
At the same time, I think the tendency in education is for those very same smart people in authority to take the simplest parts of current professional trends and run with them.  Currently, you will notice that teachers in our district are posting their learning intentions and success criteria in their classrooms.  They write them on the white board.  They print them on white paper.  They include them in SMART Board presentations.  They state them repeatedly during the lesson itself. 

There is some value in this, but at times it also becomes a hindrance. A seasoned teacher, who still cares about making lessons more and more meaningful, also understands that the lesson itself is an art and does not always fit a trendy methodology mold.  A well-crafted lesson or project can also take on an air of mystery, causing students to seek and find his or her own path of success.  If all an advisor is looking for is the posted intentions and criteria, the advisor may miss the intentional planning and successful execution of an activity.

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As a professional educator in my 25th year, I always seek autonomy in my classroom.  I yearn for professional treatment from my supervisors.  In saying that, I mean that I want to be allowed to take this information and run with it in the way that it makes sense for my own teaching style and in my relationships with my students. Teachers have a possibly-infinite number of ways of relating to their students.  Just as students have their differing learning styles and favorite subject, so do teachers have their own teaching styles and strengths.  Administrators and legislators will never evoke the cookie cutter classrooms they often desire, where everyone does things in the same ways at the same pace.

The Bloggatteer Experience easily fits into this process.  The struggle is for students to accept their roles.  They must continue to work toward their own clarity in learning.  Very early in my career, I believed what many teachers at the time believed (and many still do):  that educators need to make learning seem like fun - so much fun, in fact, that kids don't realize they are learning.  That, my friends, is bologna!  Students must feel the pain of the stretch. They must struggle alongside each other, wrestle with their resources, and push themselves to always increase their best.  With that, they will appreciate the journey.  Then and only then will our mantra of Every child can learn bear fruit.

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