The last couple of weeks

Hi!
I know I have not blogged in a while, but we have been busy writing an online book in class. We have written a lot of differents texts about everything from how to make a skype profile to smart and safe searching on the computer. The book is a project almost everyone in class is working on and we hope you will buy our book. You can learn many different and interesting facts you probably did not know before. Here are some of the texts I have written for the book. You can read them and if you like them you can buy the whole book when it gets published!

Student voice and writing a book in English class:

What would you do if no one heard your words or your voice? What would you do if no people bothered to care about your feelings or opinions? You would definitely not make any progress exploring your ideas and opinions, that’s for sure.

I think it is extremely important that students can say their opinions and thoughts. Then they can express them self, say want they want to do in the classroom, how they learn best and what they think is important and interesting. The fact that I have a voice in my classroom is very important to me. When I have a say in the classroom, the teacher, I and of course my fellow students can agree or disagree about something together. We can decide many things together and figure out what we think is the best way to do things.

I think it is really exiting to write a book in English class. I have never ever done anything like this before, so I enjoy doing something new. And on cool thing is that almost everyone in the whole class is working together. I don’t think everyone have worked together before. I feel that I learn a lot when I write on this book, especially because I am thinking about that other people are going to read what I write, not only the teacher. 

Flexibility when learning on the computer:

It is many great things about learning and working on the computer. But one incredible great thing, I know a lot of people don’t think of, is the flexibility that you can work from wherever you are in the whole world. If you are in Asia, then you can work from Asia. If you don’t feel well one day, you stay home, and you can do your school work from home.

It’s really great for people who are sick a lot, or for people with other reasons to be away from school. Take me for an example; I have been really sick and a lot away from my class. But I have managed to keep up with the homework. Much thanks to the flexibility when my class is working a lot on the computer. Right now, I am sitting in Stavern and writing this, two hours away from my school. But I can do my work, even though I can’t be at school. I think we can call that quit EXCELENT. 

What is the main difference between your education and your parent’s education?

This is a tricky question because I don’t exactly know how everything was when my parents were in school. I can only think and guess how most things were. I can try to picture them and the systems years ago, but I most likely cannot see the whole picture. In this text I will write about what I believe is true and then I will have my parents look over and comment. I will write what we do in class, what I like, and why I think we work like this.

I believe many stuff was much, much stricter before than many things are now. I think this is at least one of the main differences between my education and my parent’s education.  I think many students had more respect for their teachers and the school systems 15 years ago than now. Many young people, teenagers, children and young adults have been a little bit spoiled. They may almost think or a least behave as if the students were the bosses of the teacher. This is perhaps more for young children in elementary school, not so much in high school. But from what I have seen in old movies, the school systems were much stricter before. The students had incredible much respect for their teachers and no one ever thought about being naughty or unreasonable.

One other important difference is the fact that on my school we learn a lot on the computer. We use the internet a lot when we Skype with other classes in other countries, and we also use our blog and our twitter account a lot. We also deliver assignments online and if we want an answer to anything at all, all we have to is type the question on Google and that’s all. We do a lot more research online and have more presentations. Working in groups is also something we do a lot. I don’t believe my parents could use the internet to find and search for answers. I think they used books and worked a lot alone in a row in the classrooms.

All together I believe on of the main differences between my and my parent’s education is that many things was stricter before. The other main difference is that we learn in very different ways. We use the internet a lot to learn and my parents probably red different books and listened to the teacher for learning.

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That was some of the texts I wrote. I hope you liked them. Those texts was perhaps more reflections texts than factual texts, but it will be many factual texts as well. Although, I hope you got an impression on what the book will be like!

- Heidi