Comments on: Where have all the students 2.0 gone? http://students2oh.org/2008/10/07/where-have-all-the-students-20-gone/ The silent majority speaks up Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:41:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Lindsea http://students2oh.org/2008/10/07/where-have-all-the-students-20-gone/#comment-1420 Lindsea Fri, 05 Dec 2008 22:45:20 +0000 http://students2oh.org/2008/10/07/where-have-all-the-students-20-gone/#comment-1420 @anna and @lakresha It makes me so happy to see young bloggers like yourselves! You should consider writing a post about your perspective on education and submitting it to Students 2.0. You can email me at lindseak@gmail.com @anna and @lakresha

It makes me so happy to see young bloggers like yourselves! You should consider writing a post about your perspective on education and submitting it to Students 2.0. You can email me at lindseak@gmail.com ]]> By: Lindsea http://students2oh.org/2008/10/07/where-have-all-the-students-20-gone/#comment-1419 Lindsea Fri, 05 Dec 2008 22:43:40 +0000 http://students2oh.org/2008/10/07/where-have-all-the-students-20-gone/#comment-1419 @robert I completely agree with you. I think that it would be wonderful if students were a) rewarded for already participating and b) encouraged to participate in online projects. In my own life, the internet world and the "real world" have become synonymous--the interactions that I have and the content that I produce online are so strongly linked to the "real world" that I hesitate to call them separate things. I know that some teachers have created great online forums for students to pool their work together and collaborate online...and I think that's great. I guess that when those interactions and projects become the norm rather than the exception, we'll be closer to what you're describing. However, I don't believe that it "won't take much more effort to start this." How do you engage students and make them become doers? It seems like nothing but organic growth and passion would initiate that. Then you have to ask, how do you inspire organic growth and passion? What do you think? @chard Students definitely should start blogs, I think...but why would they want to continue them after the class is over? Will they be making new blogs for every class? Is writing an essay, publishing it, and forgetting about it practically the same as turning in an essay? @suzanne No worries! On this end, at least, my curiosity will remain burning and my blog will keep being updated. I mostly wanted to address this strange feeling of transient blogging that I'm getting from a lot of students. @Steven Great ideas! Let's exchange emails? (Mine is lindseak@gmail.com.) @robert

I completely agree with you. I think that it would be wonderful if students were a) rewarded for already participating and b) encouraged to participate in online projects. In my own life, the internet world and the “real world” have become synonymous–the interactions that I have and the content that I produce online are so strongly linked to the “real world” that I hesitate to call them separate things.

I know that some teachers have created great online forums for students to pool their work together and collaborate online...and I think that’s great. I guess that when those interactions and projects become the norm rather than the exception, we’ll be closer to what you’re describing.

However, I don’t believe that it “won’t take much more effort to start this.” How do you engage students and make them become doers? It seems like nothing but organic growth and passion would initiate that. Then you have to ask, how do you inspire organic growth and passion?

What do you think?

@chard

Students definitely should start blogs, I think...but why would they want to continue them after the class is over? Will they be making new blogs for every class? Is writing an essay, publishing it, and forgetting about it practically the same as turning in an essay?

@suzanne

No worries! On this end, at least, my curiosity will remain burning and my blog will keep being updated. I mostly wanted to address this strange feeling of transient blogging that I’m getting from a lot of students.

@Steven

Great ideas! Let’s exchange emails? (Mine is lindseak@gmail.com.) ]]> By: LaKresha http://students2oh.org/2008/10/07/where-have-all-the-students-20-gone/#comment-1417 LaKresha Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:43:16 +0000 http://students2oh.org/2008/10/07/where-have-all-the-students-20-gone/#comment-1417 Hi Lindsea. I agree with you when mention that most people on this blog are growing up. I just started blogging on here so I am very excited and ready for the fun of expressing my feelings. Student 2.0 will more than likely change the technology universe for future bloggers. Hi Lindsea. I agree with you when mention that most people on this blog are growing up. I just started blogging on here so I am very excited and ready for the fun of expressing my feelings. Student 2.0 will more than likely change the technology universe for future bloggers. ]]> By: Anna http://students2oh.org/2008/10/07/where-have-all-the-students-20-gone/#comment-1416 Anna Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:41:09 +0000 http://students2oh.org/2008/10/07/where-have-all-the-students-20-gone/#comment-1416 I think I might trust you enough not to leave blogging. I’m only 12 and I just started, it’s a substantionally amount of fun. I’m going to have to stop blogging at one period in my lifetime, but it’s not coming anytime soon. I think I might trust you enough not to leave blogging. I’m only 12 and I just started, it’s a substantionally amount of fun. I’m going to have to stop blogging at one period in my lifetime, but it’s not coming anytime soon. ]]> By: /gradster(1)/ http://students2oh.org/2008/10/07/where-have-all-the-students-20-gone/#comment-1414 /gradster(1)/ Sun, 30 Nov 2008 16:12:11 +0000 http://students2oh.org/2008/10/07/where-have-all-the-students-20-gone/#comment-1414 Students are as students do. Yay for me creating more idiotisms! In any case, we as youngsters are addicted to change. Novelty is exciting. I think this applies especially to those of us that would even have begun a project like this. In any case, there's not really anything you can do to stop it - but the fact remains that this blog now has plausibly hundreds of followers just waiting for the next post. What's the deal? We can talk about it all we want - when is something going to happen? /gradster(1)/ Students are as students do.

Yay for me creating more idiotisms!

In any case, we as youngsters are addicted to change. Novelty is exciting. I think this applies especially to those of us that would even have begun a project like this.

In any case, there’s not really anything you can do to stop it - but the fact remains that this blog now has plausibly hundreds of followers just waiting for the next post.

What’s the deal? We can talk about it all we want - when is something going to happen?

/gradster(1)/

]]> By: Steven http://students2oh.org/2008/10/07/where-have-all-the-students-20-gone/#comment-1410 Steven Thu, 20 Nov 2008 04:49:21 +0000 http://students2oh.org/2008/10/07/where-have-all-the-students-20-gone/#comment-1410 I’m excited to find this site and this post in particular. Within Auburn's Center for education and technology program we are thinking about these ideas, from the perspective of how the university might reform. George Hotz is one, he hacked the iPhone as a summer project. It got him all the “certification” he could have hoped for from a university degree. Where are the others? If Student 2.0 is needing some help getting started, beyond twittering and naval gazing in a blog, then let me suggest some ideas: The UN has a mechanism for people to ask for or become volunteers on projects. Joan Oviawe used it to start the Grace Foundation. MIT’s ThinkCycle Project (currently offline Oct 8/08) is described here in the context of how the idea might play out in a land grant university. Or you can find your own problem and build a community around it as Margo Tamez demonstrates in her work on the US-Mexican border. Want help thinking this through? Ask. We’d like to see more Students 2.0. I’m excited to find this site and this post in particular. Within Auburn’s Center for education and technology program we are thinking about these ideas, from the perspective of how the university might reform.

George Hotz is one, he hacked the iPhone as a summer project. It got him all the “certification” he could have hoped for from a university degree. Where are the others?

If Student 2.0 is needing some help getting started, beyond twittering and naval gazing in a blog, then let me suggest some ideas:

The UN has a mechanism for people to ask for or become volunteers on projects. Joan Oviawe used it to start the Grace Foundation.

MIT’s ThinkCycle Project (currently offline Oct 8/08) is described here in the context of how the idea might play out in a land grant university.

Or you can find your own problem and build a community around it as Margo Tamez demonstrates in her work on the US-Mexican border.

Want help thinking this through? Ask. We’d like to see more Students 2.0.

]]> By: Thing 5 | Huggins Happenings http://students2oh.org/2008/10/07/where-have-all-the-students-20-gone/#comment-1399 Thing 5 | Huggins Happenings Tue, 11 Nov 2008 02:29:50 +0000 http://students2oh.org/2008/10/07/where-have-all-the-students-20-gone/#comment-1399 [...] to realize that students were being taught the same class that we were.  After reading the feed http://students2oh.org/2008/10/07/where-have-all-the-students-20-gone/#comment-1364, I felt a little sad that these students are basically learning these skills, then moving on.  All [...] [...] to realize that students were being taught the same class that we were.  After reading the feed http://students2oh.org/2008/10/07/where-have-all-the-students-20-gone/#comment-1364, I felt a little sad that these students are basically learning these skills, then moving on.  All [...] ]]> By: Sean "The Bass Player" http://students2oh.org/2008/10/07/where-have-all-the-students-20-gone/#comment-1397 Sean "The Bass Player" Fri, 07 Nov 2008 21:25:50 +0000 http://students2oh.org/2008/10/07/where-have-all-the-students-20-gone/#comment-1397 Sean is in fact still floating around :-) I'm getting through university auditions at the minute, but I'll be done with them in a week or two! then back to blogging! Nice little post btw Lindsea. Sean is in fact still floating around :-) I’m getting through university auditions at the minute, but I’ll be done with them in a week or two! then back to blogging!

Nice little post btw Lindsea.

]]> By: Dillon Decicio http://students2oh.org/2008/10/07/where-have-all-the-students-20-gone/#comment-1395 Dillon Decicio Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:43:31 +0000 http://students2oh.org/2008/10/07/where-have-all-the-students-20-gone/#comment-1395 That looks like a neat project Darren, but I don't think it's exactly on the subject of the post. Makes me wish I could play an instrument (other than the trombone which I gave up.) I'd love to see that done with 'Imagine.' Maybe I need to see if Sean's still floating around, but I'm not sure since I lost contact to most everyone since I fell off the radar. I'm coming back though. If my fellows still read this site, let me know. Because I lost everyone's E-Mail. (I think.) That looks like a neat project Darren, but I don’t think it’s exactly on the subject of the post. Makes me wish I could play an instrument (other than the trombone which I gave up.) I’d love to see that done with ‘Imagine.’ Maybe I need to see if Sean’s still floating around, but I’m not sure since I lost contact to most everyone since I fell off the radar. I’m coming back though.

If my fellows still read this site, let me know. Because I lost everyone’s E-Mail. (I think.)

]]> By: Darren Draper http://students2oh.org/2008/10/07/where-have-all-the-students-20-gone/#comment-1391 Darren Draper Mon, 03 Nov 2008 19:23:02 +0000 http://students2oh.org/2008/10/07/where-have-all-the-students-20-gone/#comment-1391 This sounds like a project for Students 2.0: http://thefischbowl.blogspot.com/2008/11/playing-for-change.html This sounds like a project for Students 2.0:

http://thefischbowl.blogspot.com/2008/11/playing-for-change.html ]]>