140? We Used to Do it in 8!

February 20, 2010 in Education, New Media, Old Media, technology by karen | 2 comments

I had a funny, when-I-was-their-age moment. I had found my way to this Teachers Network website and saw this headline: IF U CN RD THS U CN LRN TO RITE, which linked to an article about adding a twist to the typical “what I did this summer” essay by having students start with texting their responses. For some reason, I flashed to an old, rainy day worksheet I used to have that gave a list of vanity license plates that the kids had to decipher. Maybe they represent the original text messaging, and a little googling showed that having students create personalized license plates for themselves or other characters was a popular lesson plan. Everything old is new again, this time around with a few more characters allowed.

  1. saland’s avatar

    saland on February 21, 2010 at 2:59 pm

    I use to have my students create vanity license plates too as a get-to-know you beginning of the year activity. We hung them around the room.

  2. Sherry’s avatar

    Sherry on February 23, 2010 at 4:37 pm

    As we have been talking about why teachers do not utilize or accept new strategies, practices, technological devices, etc, I have found a small group of teachers that will still say that the new ideas/strats will be gone soon, just wait it out. Some of these particular veteran teachers will also say that if you wait long enough the old strategies/ideas will come back around. Is that what is happening here, just in a different format? or is it a good idea/strat being updated to meet the time period?

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