#30 The Copy Machine

This year, I'm going to spend 31 days writing about places. In my profession, I talk about place-based writing quite a bit. I frame it like this when I share: We believe in the power of including spaces in the process of writing. Place-based writing is the concept that the place where we write may influence our thinking, impacting the writer’s perspective, engagement, ownership, and/or purpose. I'm really jazzed up, thinking about where I will spend time as a writer in 31 different spaces this month and how I can use each post to share a little slice of my day. 

Today, I spent a lot of time at the copy machine.

And what this place has me thinking about is several conversations I've had lately about technology and the classroom and change.  When I first started teaching, there were no grade management systems-just a good old paper gradebook where I wrote everything down.

I wasn't allowed to make more than like 100 copies a month or something.  I might get the kids into the computer lab once a month.  There weren't parent communications via email.  How has this much changed in 20 years of teaching?  

Have we slowed down enough to ask what his has done to our workloads? ... both teachers and students?

Just some tiny food for thought inspired by a place today.