I feel like Comments 4 Kids is a good way to integrate education majors into the classroom. It also is very beneficial to all of the students whose blogs that we comment on. A few of the blogs we had to comment on were a bit difficult to comment on, but for the most part I feel like this was an assignment that opened our eyes a bit to things that children appreciate when learning. The majority of the blogs we were assigned to comment on were for elementary students and some thing for little children never change. They always love when older students talk to them and acknowledge them. No matter how much technology is integrated into the classroom, children will always like when older students pay attention to them. They look up to students who are older than them so receiving comments from us was quite an experience for them.
I agree, Comments4Kids was a great experience and I am sure they enjoyed it as much as we did.
ReplyDeleteI think Comments4Kids has a lot of potential; I just don't think all the participating classes realize it. Just think, those classes whose blogs were not regularly updated could have made a deeper impression on their students and others if only they would have really considered how many other K-12 students in other schools have visited their sites and even how many college classes like ours have been checking them out.
ReplyDeleteAren't those kids so precious?
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