Why Blog??

Parents: Why Blog?

Parents: Why Blog?

It's for the boys (and girls too . . .).  But especially the boys.

If you're reading this, then I have achieved my purpose! Writing is after all, about having an audience. We know that boys are falling behind the girls academically. In Canada, England, USA, Australia and New Zealand (ok - Michael Laws isn't the most levelheaded commentator, but if you want a better series of articles from our very own Ministry of Education how about this). Frankly, I prefer Michael's version - it's shorter.

Now see how some schools are improving their boys attitude and ability to communicate in writing. Essentially it's easy: make it real to them (at this age group that means get the peers involved), make it cool (technology, computers and youtube/photos, what could be better?) and make it easy (keyboard, spellchecker and fibre).

What about the Boys?