Tuesday, July 12, 2011
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This week students evaluated S'pore's citizen journalist website - Stomp.com.sg
In small groups, students had to evaluate Stomp using various criteria and comment if it is sustainable in the long run.
Wow, its quite hard to get students to verbally voice out their opinions in front of the whole class. Most of them seem to be comfortable with "saying it best without saying nothing at all". Finally, with encouragement, questioning and awarding of class participation marks, all of them started to say something.
One interesting story I remember from the discussion today is about the news of a young person publicising on facebook about his dissatisfaction with his mum for not washing his pants! I wonder how the mum would feel. As a mum myself, I will not be happy if my son were to do this to me. I think our young need to be educated about the right way to communicate on social media, so as not to hurt oneself or others.
Stomp has lots of interesting stories to keep us informed and entertained as well especially on the gossipy kind of news.
I hope students have learnt to evaluate websites critically, not only to present the facts, but also to analyse and express views on what lies underneath those facts.
Labels: Stomping in Class
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