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Educating Alice’s Monica Edinger’s fourth grade classroom sure is lucky to have such an inspiring and committed teacher. Immigration is their year’s theme, so she is working with students on different projects using Shaun Tan’s magnificent, wordless book The Arrival. She has been documenting the experience on Educating Alice and her classblog, featuring comments, podcasts, and photos.
Enjoy, vicariously, the loads of learning and fun they are concocting, or get ideas for how to use the book in your own classroom. They will be working with The Arrival for at least another week, so make sure to check her “In the Classroom” updates.
Looks like Monica Edinger done went and made herself a Technologist when I wasn't looking. Sounds complicated. In any case there's a nice interview with her by Amy Bowllan upon the School Library Journal blog.
Things I found interesting:
- There was a school in this country in 1983 that had a computer lab AND Monica integrated computers into classroom teaching right from the start.
- She has an award from the National Peace Corps Association.
- She has some primo links to educator blogs. Not a side of the blogosphere I see much of from my part of the world.
Anywho, worth a gander. Kudos all around.
Monica Edinger recently brought up some fairly valid points about the blogosphere and relative levels of "coolness". Says she,
Over and over in my school, in the blogging world, in the children’s literature world, and elsewhere I see adults doing the same including and excluding that my fourth graders do. We write, read, and promote books that are suppose to help kids to think and not do this, yet we do it ourselves all the time. And what I see in the highly-valued community of blogging is another form of this. I don’t have a problem with it at all. What I do have a problem with is that no one seems to see it. That it is the elephant in the room.
So it got me to wondering. Her reference, the
Are You an A-List Blogebrity quiz (most kidlit bloggers aren't), brought this to mind and made me ponder my status. By deint of location, I get more traffic because I happen to live in a city with more editors, publishers, and authors per square inch than are found in the rest of the country. Maybe that's why I have to ask: Do we have a problem with small bloggers not getting included in our dialogues? If I don't give a shout out to one person or another, am I misusing my bloggable power?
Are we too cliquesh? That's what I'm asking you here.
There were probably quite a few schools that had computer labs in 1983. Mine did. The kids we thought of as geeks (who are now probably super interesting people) studied BASIC programming.
Thanks for the link Fuse. Monica's links are well worth looking into...especially the student blogs. Also, very clever eltit for this post. That's title spelled backwards :)
Regards,
Amy Bowllan