A decidedly low tech device, the humble pencil, is providing some tongue-in-cheek insight into current education debates via Twitter. In the past 24 hours, educators have tweeted the hashtag #pencilchat thousands of times. The tweets are undeniably witty, but they also reflect the frustration teachers feel over everything from schools' technophobia to budget cuts, which may make #pencilchat the best—and most clever—education allegory ever.
This was part of a post by Liz Dwyer over on Good.is and I wanted to share it because the person behind #pencilchat is John Spencer, who is one of the best teacher-bloggers (or whatever we're calling ourselves these days) out there and who clearly deserves a lot more recognition and attention. I haven't contributed to #pencilchat myself but I have been following it on and off for the past few days.
And take note: if you want to have an innovative conversation about education, that's how you do it.
1 comments:
Thanks for the kind words. I wondered if you saw my tweet on "pencils mean that kids won't be stuck in prisons with abusive teachers" followed by #innovativepencils - figured it would make you smile.
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