Anonymous wrote:I think it's great to meet kids where they are to engage them, but I don't like expecting them to do work based on a bad habit.
Teachers, please,. Be inclusive and offer reasonable choices:
Submit a page of text in one of the following forms, or a similar one of your own design, expressing a conversation between these two characters.
* a spoken dialogue
* a Twitter exchange
* back and forth notes passed in a school class.
* Google docs comments chat
Create a picture and write a paragraph caption, in style similar to one of these:
* an Instagram post
* a photo print with a description
* framed gallery art with a placard.
* a book front and back cover
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I think it's great to meet kids where they are to engage them, but I don't like expecting them to do work based on a bad habit.
Teachers, please,. Be inclusive and offer reasonable choices:
Submit a page of text in one of the following forms, or a similar one of your own design, expressing a conversation between these two characters.
* a spoken dialogue
* a Twitter exchange
* back and forth notes passed in a school class.
* Google docs comments chat
Create a picture and write a paragraph caption, in style similar to one of these:
* an Instagram post
* a photo print with a description
* framed gallery art with a placard.
* a book front and back cover
My kids utterly hate assignments like this. They want clear instructions on one style of writing so they can improve their skills in that style. They don't want a menu of options.
Anonymous wrote:When the school assigns homework to write some content in the style of social media posts, but your kids don't know how because they don't use social media... what do they do?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I think it's great to meet kids where they are to engage them, but I don't like expecting them to do work based on a bad habit.
Teachers, please,. Be inclusive and offer reasonable choices:
Submit a page of text in one of the following forms, or a similar one of your own design, expressing a conversation between these two characters.
* a spoken dialogue
* a Twitter exchange
* back and forth notes passed in a school class.
* Google docs comments chat
Create a picture and write a paragraph caption, in style similar to one of these:
* an Instagram post
* a photo print with a description
* framed gallery art with a placard.
* a book front and back cover
My kids utterly hate assignments like this. They want clear instructions on one style of writing so they can improve their skills in that style. They don't want a menu of options.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I think it's great to meet kids where they are to engage them, but I don't like expecting them to do work based on a bad habit.
Teachers, please,. Be inclusive and offer reasonable choices:
Submit a page of text in one of the following forms, or a similar one of your own design, expressing a conversation between these two characters.
* a spoken dialogue
* a Twitter exchange
* back and forth notes passed in a school class.
* Google docs comments chat
Create a picture and write a paragraph caption, in style similar to one of these:
* an Instagram post
* a photo print with a description
* framed gallery art with a placard.
* a book front and back cover
My kids utterly hate assignments like this. They want clear instructions on one style of writing so they can improve their skills in that style. They don't want a menu of options.
Do they really need to improve tweeting skills?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I think it's great to meet kids where they are to engage them, but I don't like expecting them to do work based on a bad habit.
Teachers, please,. Be inclusive and offer reasonable choices:
Submit a page of text in one of the following forms, or a similar one of your own design, expressing a conversation between these two characters.
* a spoken dialogue
* a Twitter exchange
* back and forth notes passed in a school class.
* Google docs comments chat
Create a picture and write a paragraph caption, in style similar to one of these:
* an Instagram post
* a photo print with a description
* framed gallery art with a placard.
* a book front and back cover
My kids utterly hate assignments like this. They want clear instructions on one style of writing so they can improve their skills in that style. They don't want a menu of options.
Anonymous wrote:To the English teacher, I completely defend you. Writing a Tweet from a character’s point of view is a great comprehension activity. My middle schooler isn’t on Twitter or any social media but obviously knows what a Tweet is.
To the parents complaining… this media is out there, and while kids shouldn’t have social media accounts, they should have a degree of literacy surrounding it so that they can consume it critically.
Anonymous wrote:I tell the kids teachers and principal at the start of the year that my kids don't do homework as long as their test grades stay at an A. They will do group projects but that's it until 6th grade. If they were asked to do social media homework in 6th grade I'd email the teacher and let them know how detrimental social media is to young kids developing minds, include some studies and say I hope in the future they will pick more appropriate assignments but I've excused my kid from this one.
Anonymous wrote:I think it's great to meet kids where they are to engage them, but I don't like expecting them to do work based on a bad habit.
Teachers, please,. Be inclusive and offer reasonable choices:
Submit a page of text in one of the following forms, or a similar one of your own design, expressing a conversation between these two characters.
* a spoken dialogue
* a Twitter exchange
* back and forth notes passed in a school class.
* Google docs comments chat
Create a picture and write a paragraph caption, in style similar to one of these:
* an Instagram post
* a photo print with a description
* framed gallery art with a placard.
* a book front and back cover
Anonymous wrote:To the English teacher, I completely defend you. Writing a Tweet from a character’s point of view is a great comprehension activity. My middle schooler isn’t on Twitter or any social media but obviously knows what a Tweet is.
To the parents complaining… this media is out there, and while kids shouldn’t have social media accounts, they should have a degree of literacy surrounding it so that they can consume it critically.
Anonymous wrote:I’m a middle school English teacher. I sometimes have my students write pretend Tweets or Instagram captions where they pretend to be the character of the book we’re reading.