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2014-06-11T06:39:24.684-07:00
Kerry Gallagher, JD (noreply@blogger.com, http://www.blogger.com/profile/06929055111516475230)

I read your review on going paperless and I don't know what the point was of the reflection. The title implied that paperless was good for students but what you seemed to talk about was the activities you did which engaged students. You can change activities and not be paperless. I went paperless years ago using Moodle and it didn't improve student learning and engagement, it made the room paperless. If you have a great driving question you can engage students, once again without being paperless. When I went paperless in Moodle I found I could add activities which required students to work and think about the content, with a good driving question it was a nice marriage of blending digital and traditional learning. Since I was using an LMS, I could track who did and didn't respond to questions and remind them to do so. After getting responses calling on them to personally support their answer. Could I have done this without going paperless? Absolutely! Would've taken longer but I can do it. I challenge you Kerry to look at what really changed in your classroom was it being paperless that caused all of this or was it your approach to how students get content. Lastly, I appreciate you sharing your comments (all the good ones) but nothing negative and I'm not sure why? Bad comments are good for us as teachers and much can be learned from those kids who didn't embrace this change for you and us who read these kinds of blogs. Thanks!

- Jason