Kathy Cassidy’s 1st Graders have a Podcast, a Wiki, and a Blog.
That’s right. You heard me. Ms. Cassidy’s Class does podcasting They’re six. They podcast and have a wiki. They write stories on a wiki. They also have a story blog. They aren’t the only first graders who are blogging with their teachers. Plenty of kids are blogging at school and at home.
What’s more . . . these kids won’t be able to remember a world without that kind of technology. Of course, that exact technology will be outdated before they leave grade school. Their teachers know they need skills for jobs that don’t exist yet either.
Isn’t that reason enough to find out what’s going on?
–Liz Strauss
[Thanks to Mark Wagnerat Educational Technology and Life. He always knows what's going on.]
[...] I’m lucky. I know the man I was speaking to has lots of room to think and doesn’t scare easily. I’ll approach him again, show him a few blogs — one by a Fortune 500 company CEO, Jonathan Schwartz of SunMicrosystems,, one by a modern philosopher, Oleg Koefoed,, and a post I wrote about first graders Ms. Cassidy’s first grade class. [...]
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