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Wednesday, October 29, 2008
To IM or not to IM that is the Question
Last night I revived my dusty Yahoo IM account, and dropped Allana a quick line. I used ICQ about 1000 tech years ago. I had forgotten how fun it is to IM. It's more immediate than email. It's more personal than blogging. It is...well, it's chatting, isn't it? It's like sitting down at grandma's kitchen table after school and shooting the breeze. It's responsive and involving and energizing. I can see why the "Cool Cat Teacher" chose it as a method to involve reluctant students in discussion. What a valuable tool for extending conversations and as Cool Cat said, correcting errors in thinking. I really think teachers in classes that promote reflection and discussion should use this tool. See comments on Things 1-3 for the Cool Cat link.
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*laughs* I really like the phrase “about 1000 tech years ago”. Are those years equivalent to a minute or a second?
I’ve found your comments about IM in school really interesting. I think it would have been a lot of fun to be able to IM back when I was in school. I wonder how the IM conversations would change if you would try what the Cool Cat Teacher did first making it known what each student was saying and then try it again using anonymous names. Would the reluctant students say even more if no one knew it was them talking?
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