Digital Paper - finally (!) scribbled on
Here’s
BAWP’s online ‘zine of writing by teacher consultants. First suggested in July of 2002, it finally launched three days ago. Embryonic for about four years.Sigh.
The
BAWP community of teacher consultants is a smart group, exceptional
teachers, with a level of classroom practice that makes the
union-busting National Board Certified types look clueless in
comparison. And it STILL took four years to get this thing off the
ground. Why?
Karen McComas said a while back
that Writing Project folks who share a vision of ”digital paper” for
teaching and learning should redirect some of our attention to policy
efforts. Agreed. The complete lack of support for teacher exploration
and use of web-based tools [outside of wealthy suburban school
districts] is just one small aspect of the assault on the commons of
public education.
“Row, row, row your web boat.” Frank Smith said it all in 1995.