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For this comment for teachers blog I was assigned to Hadley J's blog of Middle School Matrix. The first blog entry that caught my eye to read was "If I Could Craft Your Summer." In this entry she has put together a wish list and a list of goals for her students over the summer. Her first wish is for boredom and silence for her students because she thinks that activities are always filling the students minds, and they need to just clear their minds for once and use their imagination. The next two Hadley wants her students to take time out of their day to go outside and just listen to nature itself and for the students to read whatever they please for five to fifteen minutes daily. The last wish is for her students to have fun and just relax and enjoy your time off from school. For my comment, I agreed that those few wishes she had are something that every student should fulfill during their summer time. Kids enjoy being on the go all the time and playing sports, but every once in a while students need the rest and relaxation of not being in school.
For my second time to go back to Hadley's blog, I decided to read her entry " The Unknown World of The Encyclopedia." In this blog she has given her students three people to think of who they would like to research.They end up at the library for her students to explore in books and what not to narrow their searches. Come to find out when she would tell her students to look it up in an Encyclopedia or World Book they would steer away from the book shelf because it was all one click away on the computer. She then tells the students the Encyclopedias are just like wikipedia and they get excited and start to use them. She said in a couple years we went from teaching and looking up things in books to now using the internet. She is totally true, who wants to get an Encyclopedia when they can stay in the same place they are and look it up on their phone or laptop?! Technology is taking over everything including the schools, so yes books may still be helpful but with technology it is faster and what most people prefer.