Writing

I wonder what the new techology will be as we sit here tinkering with movie maker, on the cutting edge of teaching tools. I hope that soon I am teaching with hollograms and video games. But I suck at video games.

Today I learned such useful stuff...political cartoons and writing with toys. They were such different ideas: one seems for young kids and one so advanced, but I could use both with my students. It is amazing what a little scaffolding will do, and how easy it is to differentiate. We, as grown ups, get so much out of these writing assignments. I wrote about the continental airplane...and haven't been that into a story in a long time. I think toys give us permission to use our imaginations.