"The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all. "
Mark Twain
It came to me as a surprise recently, that I would have to teach my 6th and 7th grade students how to comment on a blog. Turns out, this is not an innate ability as I had previously presumed. Initially I said, “Read someone else’s blog and leave a comment“ That… was a poor choice. The first comment left read “No Duh, lol.” Luckily, the program that use allows the teacher to read each comment before publishing it to the web, forever attaching it to another person’s thought.
The next day in class, I wrote put the comment unnamed, up on the screen and asked students what it meant. It led into a great discussion on authentic audience. I was able to explain that while “lol” might make sense to them, but that there is a reason it gets underlined when typing it into a word document. Since our discussion on appropriate commenting, the comments have led to some really good dialogue.
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