I haven’t had a chance to read all of them, but this comment, from Deborah Gast, one of the attendees of yesterday blogging workshop in Chapel Hill, caught my attention.
But in our schools we make some learners teachers.
Sometimes they talk and talk.
Sometimes they show and show.
Sometimes they pass out papers.
Sometimes they test the other learners.
Sometimes they inspire the other learners to learn.
Sometimes they inspire the other learners to dream great things.
Sometimes they uninspired the other learner, even bore them.
Sometimes they forget about joy of learning.
Often they loaded down with paperwork that teaching is a second job.Sometimes there is no conversation for an hour maybe even all day long.
Is blogging a way to start the conversations once again-QUIETLY ?Could the teacher become a learner again?
Could the students become teachers?
Could our classrooms change so much that a school would not be a building but a community?
A school connected by conversation not walls.
A school in the world, not shut-up in crowded rooms.
A community built with learners of different ages working together on a project of intense interest to them.