Monday, May 24, 2010

Blogs

Blogs are passages of writing that we create to improve and to develop our writing skills. In Grade 8, we write one blog every week, which indeed does help us with our writing skills, but when we have to do it repeatedly once every seven days our mind starts to get tired and lose interest, and it just becomes another mindless ‘task’. I believe that we should come up with an alternative to fix this problem.

Admittedly, when you perform any action repeatedly such as writing, you tend to get better at it. Your brain remembers what you’ve done and what mistakes you’ve made, and it remembers not to repeat that mistake. For example, when you write ‘alot’ instead of ‘a lot’, you notice it’s incorrect and your brain will remember not to repeat the error.

Even though blogs do help us learn, after a while our brains feel like they are going on auto pilot. When you do any task too many times, of course, you’ll start to get bored of it, most likely because it will become a pain rather than a learning experience. For instance, when you go to a restaurant that you really love over and over again, it starts to lose its flare.

I believe that we should attempt to change how the grade eight students do blogs. I believe that we should reduce the frequency of writing blogs and replace them with another idea, such as us teaching younger grades what we have learned. I imagine that this would be a respectable alternative for blog writing because for a lot of people teaching is the best way to learn.

Blogs or writing in general, is something that should not be overdone. You need to write every once in a while, so that you will learn, but still have fun at the same time.

I Posted on Remy's blog about the Stanley Cup

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