I'm frustrated today because my students are frustrated. I use our eLearning Ontario site to teach Science, Geography, and History in a 'blended learning' style. So far, things have been going well with a few kids who struggle but some who fly and the rest are in between and good. Except that some of the course content I chose includes BLOGGING for the students. Fine. Or, it should be.
I taught them how to use their restricted access to Blogger to make blog posts to meet the assignment requirements. Great! They like it even. Then they tried to go and view their own blogs only to discover that our board has BLOCKED the blogs. What nonsense is that? They can create the blogs but they can't view them!!!!
I really think it's time we stopped relying on baby gates and taught the kids how to go down the stairs one step at a time, don't you? I think we need to unblock the web and teach the kids how to use the information. It is old fashioned to hoard information. I'd like to see the board of education let it go.
Here's hoping that my request to have it unblocked gets approved!
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