I was assigned a PLN on something that Mr. Fisch wrote on his blog. After reading a rant aboot technoligy and another on staff devlopment, I realized this wasn't exactly sinking in. I scrolled down untill I saw one on "What Matters". Ah, yes, I've done this! I read through it and clicked on some of the links. In his blog, Mr Fisch said "Many of [the students blogs] seemed similar to mine...". Well yea, isn't that kind of expected? When the students ask for a more specific topic. The answer they got was "I dont kno, What matters?" Not much of an answer, is it... Because they were put out on a cliff hanger like that, most(or all) of the students did what was easiest- what matters te them.
"I am just having a difficult time trying to find the line between feeling like I am leading them to the answer I am looking for (i.e. my what matters example) and having them struggle to find their own understanding- what I feel like they should be looking for." After reflecting for a few moments, I began to fully understand what Mr. Fisch means by this. The reason behind not giving a straight forward answer when asked "What do you mean by what matters?" was that he wants his students to do it on their own. Fisch wasnt looking for them to answer the question his way. He wanted them to answer the question how they think it should be answered, be it what matters to them, what matters to the world or what metters to their second cousin twice removed. What ever the case may be, the whole point of that activity was to get a look into the heads of each of the kids.
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