Away from technology for a day

Ok. This is might sound lame, and it won’t take you more than two seconds to guess that I am an English teacher. Today, my classes took a day away from the computers to do research. We actually used those bound paper piles in the library known as books. I will admit that, at times through the day, it was painful, mostly because the computers were within ten feet at all times, and the research might have been easier with a google search.

However, I think that my students will be better because of the activity. We are working on a project where the students are going to research the life of Shakespeare and, if all goes well in the next few weeks, build a wiki of some sort with all of the information. My purpose in having the students use books was that they are still a valid source for research. What was real interesting was the thought process that the students had to go through.... Click here to read the rest of thos blog post.