Hi everyone!
I wanted to post this message in my friend Nada's blog, I tried so many times but in vain! it didn't work though it was not my mistake in posting my comment in her blog because I did comment on others blogs and it was lovely! but in her blog there was somthing wrong!? and to let everyone profit from my reflection on blogging I decided to post it in my own private blog perhaps it will gain your attention.
I was really impressed and attracted by your nice and sincere post. I lived with you every word you wrote, feeling the dilemma you have undergone, tasting the paradox you have faced in order to answer how far blogging is interesting in our field of teaching. Let me -therefore-share with you this burden of thinking and analyzing, let me express what I may see from my own point of view:
First, I will consider the matter from the angle of the learner: I do agree with you that at the first glance young learners will not cope with such a tool given the fact their age and the computing limited knowledge will hinder them from doing great things in the world of blogging. Yet, the practice shows the opposite result ;children have shown an active concern in the process of the dialogue with computers. Let’s consider the article entitlled: Mapping Learning Potential: students’conceptions of ICT in their world by BRIDGET SOMEKH & DIANE MAVERS from the Institute of Education, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. This paper explores « how students aged 10–16 conceptualise the role of computers in today’s world. »And to sum it up I would like to borrow the picture that one of the students drew : a spider gram with the computer at the center and everything(school, Tv, internet, home…) around it.This is how the children may see the computer; it seems present in every corner of their lives. Therefore it suggests that kids are aware of its importance and deeply struggling to defy such a challenge from an early age.
From my own personal experience, I must add the fact that I have tested some young learners (age category 1Oto 12) in writing an e-mail and most of them succeeded after few weeks in understanding the process easily. Children are intelligent learners and they may be involved easily. Besides, they quickly develop different strategies in coping with many tasks though such tasks may seem so difficult at the start.
My final remark will be the same as what you have finished your blog with: the communicative skill that is granted by the process of blogging. Let me explain myself in a literary way; writing a blog reminds me of writing a memoire. It also reminds me of medieval ages when Puritans used to confess their sins in poetry as well as in prose. The analogy is so clear but the means have changed. Today we are exposing ourselves and our opinions in a different “silhouette”-the blog- and trying to exchange these thoughts through a virtual world.
Hopefully I wasn’t so boring in my analysis, yet if you want further discussions I will be pleased to share ideas with you. Happy to be the first to comment upon your speculation and I am sure it will not be the last time to follow your posts.Best regards!
I wanted to post this message in my friend Nada's blog, I tried so many times but in vain! it didn't work though it was not my mistake in posting my comment in her blog because I did comment on others blogs and it was lovely! but in her blog there was somthing wrong!? and to let everyone profit from my reflection on blogging I decided to post it in my own private blog perhaps it will gain your attention.
I was really impressed and attracted by your nice and sincere post. I lived with you every word you wrote, feeling the dilemma you have undergone, tasting the paradox you have faced in order to answer how far blogging is interesting in our field of teaching. Let me -therefore-share with you this burden of thinking and analyzing, let me express what I may see from my own point of view:
First, I will consider the matter from the angle of the learner: I do agree with you that at the first glance young learners will not cope with such a tool given the fact their age and the computing limited knowledge will hinder them from doing great things in the world of blogging. Yet, the practice shows the opposite result ;children have shown an active concern in the process of the dialogue with computers. Let’s consider the article entitlled: Mapping Learning Potential: students’conceptions of ICT in their world by BRIDGET SOMEKH & DIANE MAVERS from the Institute of Education, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. This paper explores « how students aged 10–16 conceptualise the role of computers in today’s world. »And to sum it up I would like to borrow the picture that one of the students drew : a spider gram with the computer at the center and everything(school, Tv, internet, home…) around it.This is how the children may see the computer; it seems present in every corner of their lives. Therefore it suggests that kids are aware of its importance and deeply struggling to defy such a challenge from an early age.
From my own personal experience, I must add the fact that I have tested some young learners (age category 1Oto 12) in writing an e-mail and most of them succeeded after few weeks in understanding the process easily. Children are intelligent learners and they may be involved easily. Besides, they quickly develop different strategies in coping with many tasks though such tasks may seem so difficult at the start.
My final remark will be the same as what you have finished your blog with: the communicative skill that is granted by the process of blogging. Let me explain myself in a literary way; writing a blog reminds me of writing a memoire. It also reminds me of medieval ages when Puritans used to confess their sins in poetry as well as in prose. The analogy is so clear but the means have changed. Today we are exposing ourselves and our opinions in a different “silhouette”-the blog- and trying to exchange these thoughts through a virtual world.
Hopefully I wasn’t so boring in my analysis, yet if you want further discussions I will be pleased to share ideas with you. Happy to be the first to comment upon your speculation and I am sure it will not be the last time to follow your posts.Best regards!
Hello Khaled.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for the effort and insight you invested in my blog post. I really appreciate it.
I'm so sorry you were not able to post it there. I think that is where it belongs because it adds to my post's value. I'll check if there is something wrong with my blog's settings, and if I find nothing, I'll, with our tutor's permission, post your text myself and sign your name. If that is all right with you, of course.
All the very best,
Nada