What gets people talking..
After seeing Chris Betcher’s blog and all the comments that it elicited (27), I also saw another blog the now quite famous: “Is It Okay To Be A Technologically Illiterate Teacher?” (Voted the most influential edublog posting from 2007) at The Fischbowl blog. It had a whopping 56 comments!
Both of these blogs seemed to encourage discussion by making a statement that is bold, controversial, challenging, and I think a bit extreme, in the way a good hypothetical discussion topic should be.
If you don’t make a controversial, somewhat extreme statement, people will never really begin to analyse their concepts/beliefs and no real discussion will begin! What do you think?
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