למידה, אינטרנט ... ומה שביניהם

When we got noticed in the local newspaper, I put the Statcounter code on one of the template files to track our visitors. I was amazed to see how many people visited the kids site. Lots more than read this blog, as a rule. And they generally find the site with Google searches for things like the strongest pokemon in sinnoh, or pokemon how to get to outer space. It seems that my fourth-graders created something there’s a demand for, even if I couldn’t appreciate or understand it. What do I know?

For instance, there was this real excitement over reading about (ahem, looking at the pictures of) different Pokemon characters on Wikipedia. This wonderful discovery came from reading some of the posts from Doug Noon's fourth grade bloggers. So I watched for a couple of days, finally put my foot down, and said, no more just clicking on this or that to just see pictures of the different characters. Get off Wikipedia, for goodness sake. Kind of like a teacher might not allow somebody to "read" Where's Waldo? day after day.... Know where those boys eventually wound up? - reading and rereading the posts on Pokemon from Doug's kids.

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