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=About Me = After finishing my seventh year at Malden High School, my goal remains the same as the day I began teaching--to empower my students as independent thinkers and learners. Since my passion is teaching composition and rhetoric, I hope to use this virtual notebook as a tool to inspire my students to read and write with a sense of purpose and cultural understanding.



=** "The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life" --Plato **= = = **__2.1 The 21st Century Classroom__**

A response....

My summary of impressions…first, that I was particularly proud that the number of books published has increased (yay, writers!), but more so that the way we communicate today clearly is no longer by “snail mail.” It seems that by the statistics in the article that what we seem to do as educators does not mirror how we communicate outside the classroom. For example, I text, download music, watch Law & Order (although out of sheer principle will not watch Jersey Shore), and have even tried to figure out my Wii with little success. Do any of the above sneak into my pedagogy? No really. Should they? I’m not sure. Although it may be how we spend our idle time, should it be integrated into my curriculum? Keeping in mind my evolving concept of a 21st century classroom, I believe knowing just what we consider worthy of our time (again, reality TV) should be met with a critical eye and perhaps used in a constructive manner to teach our students how to analyze what is being sent out into the cyber world

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