One of the audience Vishay Mar has just coined this phrase, WYSIWYG Teaching, to describe how some teachers view blogs. They think that what they see on the blogs is it, everything, tutti, not realising or appreciating the teaching that has gone on in the classroom behind this and how different this teaching is to the chalk and talk and feeble group work (i.e. not true collaborative work where students are in control) that some teachers still employ
Barbara backs this up by explaining how intense the activity in her classroom is. It seems that the blog allows the thought process time to develop which is denied in the intensity of the classroom. Intensity in the classroom; time to reflect on the blog?
One of the biggest issues is, of course, learners' (and parents') expectations of what learning is about. It is expected to be a "slightly unconfortable and boring process".
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