For me, the experience highlighted the importance of staying patient and open-minded about the ways in which people learn. This isn't about being old-fashioned versus cutting edge. Plenty of those eager chatterers are as old I am, whereas both of my screen-savvy sons hate Twitter.
Thank goodness our Frost Place teachers are eager to step into arenas where I do not shine. I can write 20-page essays and synthesize ideas from various historical eras and listen and support and suggest, but I cannot coherently disseminate 140-character poetry lesson plans via #s and @s.
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I attempted this too and was in awe. However, I have been reading and responding to Three Teachers Talk blog fairly regularly. I am SO eager to see people in June at CPT and have conversations face to face again.
Hey, I didn't know you were on twitter. Just followed you.
Many educational uses of twitter come across as desperate attempts to create the appearance you have a "connected" classroom, but it ends up being a lot of white noise.
Mr. Hill, I wish you'd come back to the Frost Place and give me a lesson on how to negotiate that white noise.
I would love to; was just telling a colleague about my week there this morning.
If I could get my 10 yr old as interested in summer camp as my 12 yr old, it would be an easier thing.
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