All throughout my schooling, I was fucking terrified of writing. I absolutely dreaded it, because the thought of writing about “Arguing whether or not the principal should put healthier foods in the school vending machines and why?” for a test score absolutely put me to sleep. Never once did a teacher give me an option to write about something that, I don’t know, actually interested me. That’s where Alex Reid’s article comes into play. Reid writes about the importance of blogging and different ways people can participate in blogging. As a future educator, I love this idea. I think that blogging is such a creative way to get students to write because not only does it satisfy their social media need, but it also gets them to write and about things that interest THEM. It will take away the frightening idea about the traditional 5 paragraph paper. Also, with putting their personal thoughts, ideas, and passions online to a blog it opens the amazing wonders to connect to people, places and things all around the world. 30 years ago the closest thing that we had that connected us to other parts of the world was television sets and radio and even with those devices our connectivity was extremely limited. So I ask, why not use the resources available to our children? In a few years, they’re going to need to know how to blog and function on a computer instead of writing letters and proper, grammatical English. With this positive move towards internet blogging, this can spark a kids imagination, creative thinking and even… curiosity. *Boom… article inception* So now as I linked Reid article and thoughts to Ballenger’s idea of remaining curious in life. I think that with most people’s modern day life, we are SO busy and constantly on the go that, we don’t get in-curious, but we don’t care enough to to explore the ideas of our curiosity and the things that make us wonder. We think about it, ponder about it for a few seconds, then it’s throw into the back of our mind and stored into the ‘do not enter’ section of our mind. I do believe that it’s important to remain curious about topics and ideas only if you or we are going to actually pursue understanding the curious part of whatever we are curious about. If we are just going to think about how long it took them to build the Chinese wall? and why did they build it? and how? and how did it remain without reparations this long? yet we turn into the next drive thru line and order a number 5 no pickle with a coke and fries, then there’s no point in being curious. With these blogs, students can keep their curiosities in an organized manner and come back to it, research the idea, write a blurb about it, save it and be on their way. Or, with the amazing use of the Internet they can gain information from kids their age about their curiosities and vice versa. It’s a beautiful thing… I wonder why we haven’t done this earlier? Let me go research that…
Sep 092016