Comments on: Business Blogging: Are You Smarter than a Second Grader?

By: About kids and business

About kids and business — Sat, 31 May 2008 09:45:55 +0000

[...] Blogging is important – even to 2nd graders. Liz Fuller at Business & Blogging shares why this pint-size group uses a blog. [...]

By: Valuable Business Lessons Learned From Kids

Valuable Business Lessons Learned From Kids — Fri, 30 May 2008 18:37:27 +0000

[...] Blogging is important – even to 2nd graders. Liz Fuller at Business & Blogging shares why this pint-size group uses a blog. [...]

By: Liz Fuller

Liz Fuller — Thu, 29 May 2008 15:53:03 +0000

Hi Mary Emma

It is a good list – and your students might be interested in the original podcast as well! It’s inspiring to see what can be done by people who aren’t “techies”!

By: Mary Emma Allen

Mary Emma Allen — Thu, 29 May 2008 15:20:07 +0000

What an interesting list of why to blog. I’ll have to mention this link to the adult students in my blogging class next week. I think they can learn from the 2nd graders…actually we all can!

Mary Emma Allen
(www.homebiznotes.com)

By: Kids - and what they mean to business

Kids - and what they mean to business — Thu, 29 May 2008 08:03:19 +0000

[...] Blogging is important – even to 2nd graders. Liz Fuller at Business & Blogging shares why this pint-size group uses a blog. [...]

By: Liz Fuller

Liz Fuller — Mon, 26 May 2008 01:22:46 +0000

Hi Tom
You make some interesting points. I’m not sure that blogging will have an impact either way on a student’s ability to do math – but I actually was thinking just the opposite about the connection between blogging and a student’s ability to write. I would think it would have a positive influence.

I think one of the biggest demotivators in academics is homework that seems meaningless – blogging however is visible and creates connections – which provides an inherent motivation to it that students don’t have in their other assignments.

By: Tom

Tom — Sun, 25 May 2008 04:45:52 +0000

Great ideas. It’s just too bad they aren’t working. Educators seem stuck in the “fun” or “cool” aspect of technology. But that doesn’t get the kids the fundamentals that are essential to build from, nor does it get them ready for the future. I graduated from high school in 1968. I was an average to poor student. But I still could read, write, and “cypher ‘em numbers”.

In fact, I got through college in only 4 years… with summers off. A very rare occurrance today. Plus I didn’t have to take one remedial class at all. By the way, my SAT score was 1240 pdd. (pre-dumb down)

Look, I only mention this because if it was possible for my generation, it is possible for this generation. and the next. We didn’t have calculators, we used slide rules, and we used them well enough to get a man on the moon. No Virginia, calculators weren’t invented in 1969. And what very few computers that existed ran programs on paper tape. It’s almost obscene that educators are creating a generation of humans that won’t know what to do if theres no electricity. Hmmmm have you heard of Electro-Magnet Pulse?