So I have spent my morning with a teacher and his English classes... they are beginning a unit on poetry. Our idea was to use YouTube videos of poets (we choose to start with Billy Collins and Taylor Mali) reading their own work.
The teacher told me that kids seemed more interested and the students told us they were more interested in poetry with this introduction. We didn't make poets out of any that were not already, but we did use technology to engage kids to a greater extent than we would have without technology.
We are counting that as a small success... I'll take those everyday.
Everyone's favorite poem of the day:
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