Please Leave Your Comments for the Sixth Graders
Paul approved the comments for the sixth grade class on his blog. They are now live. When I taught sixth graders about blogging this week, we had them all leave comments, just to practice.
Please check them out and leave your own comments (link above) to the students so they can experience the magic of blogs - how anyone anywhere can talk back. There is a great discussion about teaching our kids entrepreneurship and technical skills going on that I just learned about. Check it out.
After teaching the class I thought how the best minds need to teach in elementary schools once in a while. It’s a good exercise in distilling complicated ideas and making them very clear. Paul caught that too, if you read his post about it.
I learned that the last people you can be fake with is a class of sixth graders. They haven’t learned not to trust. They can spot dishonesty in a second. Rather than talk down or at them, I have to commit to empowering them with knowledge. Paul did a great job at that. I have more to learn. It’s easy to see if you’re being effective - they listen and participate. There is one conversation that you are assisting or directing. Otherwise it’s just chaos.
2 Responses to “Please Leave Your Comments for the Sixth Graders”
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March 30th, 2007 at 12:47 pm
“After teaching the class I thought how the best minds need to teach in elementary schools once in a while.”
The best thing I ever did for my marketing and blogging career was to teach 8th grade for two years. Invaluable experience as you point out!
April 2nd, 2007 at 11:38 am
6th graders will make very good bloggers.
I love that age group! Hi, and keep up the
blogging kids!!