Please comment on the new rules put forth by your teacher. What was your initial reaction? What is your reaction now? Discuss fairness as it pertains to the new rules. Do the new rules favor any one particular person or group? Do they hurt any one particular person or group?
I think the new rules are pretty fair. I was expecting the rules to be like this because the rules for Speak were actually pretty similar. The rules can be a little more fair. I think a limit of 150 words may be a little too much. Sometimes, people may not have a lot to conntribute or comment to the blog, and they may not have 150 words to say, but they still should try their best. Also, the rule of not using emoticons or text language may hurt some people. eople who like to add a little "fun" to the blog/conversation will be forbidden to do so and, as a result, will not enjoy the assignment. Also, the rule of commenting thoughtfully and clearly may be a disadvantage to some people. Students should be as clear as possible, but some students may be bad at English or may find it hard to express how they feel. They may try their best, and if they do, points will still be taken off because it was not clear enough. Still, this is a minor problem. Otherwise, I think the new rules are fair.
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ReplyDeleteI think that the new rules are fair. There was a need for new rules following the blogging of the book "Speek" the first rule,"Responses will be thoughtful, personal, and show a clear understanding of the specific reading that the post has been done for." Is important because otherwise students could post something and not fully understand what he or she is truly saying. The second rule,Language will be formal, descriptive, and elevated." Much like the first is important. The third rule,"Each comment will be a minimum of 150 words." Is a little much because people especially kids will drag on there comments to fit the 150 words so instead the minimum should be 100 words. The forth rule,"Post will not include emoticons, text language or Teenspeak."makes a fair case and should be easy to follow. The fifth and final rule is "For Title of Post include Last name / Reflection Topic Number" this much like the fourth and should also be easy to follow. Otherwise, I think the new rules are fair.
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ReplyDeleteI believe that the new rules are very fair for everyone. My initial reaction was that the rules were going to be very similar to the last blog for Speak. We use to just have to write 150 about questions that related about the book, but that doesn't show that you read the book. Now, these new rules have an outline given to you on how you should write your post which is very fair to me. These rules such as the language will be formal, descriptive, and elevated and each comment will be a minimum of 150 words. This guidelines help you write a quality response to the book Night and get a deeper meaning of the book. The rules don't really favor anyone in particular but it just guides the kids who post every week on how to write better and the kids who post last minute and the response was ok, these rules will make them write better and have them take more time on their posts. The new rules did not hurt anyone in particular but just gave most of us more clarification on how to write our response better.
My First reaction was what did we do wrong to get these new rules. To be honest i do not rember what most of the rules are. my reaction now after reading the question that the rules relate to the book. People might be treated different in the book then others. The rules are some what fair but can be aruged about the fairness towrdas people in the class. It picks out people who might talk more then others to teach them a lesson. The rules seem like it might affect people who have good freinds in the class and talk to each other more. The 150 wors in each blog was nawt a new rule we had that in the last blog for speak.
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ReplyDeleteI find the new rules for the most part to be fair. I do not know if you are referring to the ones about posting or the one with the ten points. The rules on posting on the blog are pretty simple and very fair. 150 words may be a little high, but it still does not take that long. The post having to show an understanding of what we read in reasonable. It is not like you are asking for much, it is only a matter of actually doing the work. That benefits the people in the class who do their work thoroughly. In regards to the points in class I think that is fair. This rule benefits people who participate a lot, but can be slightly unfair to those who do not speak much. I do not think a lack of participation should cause you to lose points. This also benefits people who do not interrupt and who behave in class, who might deserve the extra good grade.
I find the new rules to be pretty fair for the most part. What i think is fair is that before with the blog on Speak, you did not necessarily have to read the book to be able to answer one of the given questions. With the new rules, you, for the most part, have to read the book to be able to comment on the blog. For example, if the blog asks for you to give a commentary on what you have read already in the book, you have to have read the book to give a commentary on it. The part of the new rules that i do not think is entirely fair is that each response or comment to the blog has to be a minimum of 150 words. I do not think that the number is unreasonably high, but sometimes i think it is difficult to write a 150 word response or comment to a blog. Other than the 150 word minimum to a response/comment, i think the new rules are fair.
ReplyDeleteI believe the new rules are very fair. I think this because it is more specific to the book itself. With the book, Speak, we got to chose which question we wrote about, and the question did not always relate directly to the story. With this book, and the way we are doing the blog this time, it seems like everyone will have an equal amount of work. Although I feel that having to write 150 words may be a little to much because not everyone has that much to say. I feel like if there was more of a range of the amount we have to write that would be a little better for each student. Other than that I believe all of the new rules to be completely fair, and that the way we are doing the blog this time is a better idea because it makes sure we read the book and it has everyone answering the same question.
ReplyDeleteI think the new rules addressed in class today were fair. At first, I thought that he would just take off points for anything that was generally disrespectfully or rude remarks made by students. As class went on I realized it could be for anything. One student laughed a little after another student got a point taken away from him, and he also got a point taken away. I thought that was a little unfair because he was not necessarily being loud. Other students had smirks on too, but only one student got points taken away. I think that these new rules hurt the more talkative students in class. The more they talk, the more points get taken away from them. It will help them to understand that they should be respectful while in class. The quieter students are in favor of these new rules because it is an easy way to pass the class. It will be easy to do work with silence and discuss topics without being interrupted. I think these rules are mostly fair because it teaches the students that they have to be respectful of their teacher. It also will help to cut down disturbances made by students. I like the new rules for the most part because I am not talkative or disrespectful to teachers.
ReplyDeleteI think that making the posts more personal and thoughtful will prove that we had read and understand the book. I also think that making the language more descriptive will make us have to interpret the reading and will help us to understand the book. Requiring the post to not include emoticons, text language or teenspaek will keep us from using those types of words just to fill up the blog. These restrictions on the type of language and the description will force us to read not scim the book, and will help us to understand the book better by having us interpret and reflect upon our reading.
ReplyDeleteI think that the new rules for the classroom are somewhat fair. I am not entirely fond of them but i do not think that they are very unreasonable either. When i first heard about the new rules, my initial reaction was that a point would just be taken off for interrupting, talking when you should not be, or not doing the classwork when you were supposed to. So i thought that it would be pretty easy to get a 100% if you just followed those rules. Then when a student got a point taken away because they had their hat on at the end of class, right before it was time to leave, i thought that that was a little unfair. I think that these rules favor the students who are quieter in class. I think that the new rules hurt the people who talk more in class. Overall, i think that the new rules in class are somewhat fair.
ReplyDeleteI think the new rules for classroom are fair. In beginning, I didn’t exactly understand what the new rules meant but as the class went on I started to understand them.I was also a bit scared and excited at the same time.The idea in general about ten points sounds pretty nice. It’s really easy to get tens a day.I think it was not fair for the student who got a point taken off for laughing while the other student in back was laughing louder but that student didn’t get points taken off.I believe that if the student in back didn’t get a point taken off than the other student shouldn’t have either or both of them should have gotten a point taken off.The rules do favor some of the students in class and not others.The quieter students in the class will have more advantage with the new rule rather than the talkative ones.Thou this rule will help realize student where they went wrong and what not to do in a classroom.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion the new rules are fair, and the fact that a student can walk into the classroom with 10 points and then leave with the same 10 points is more than reasonable. The fact that a student is in charge of taking another students points off on the other hand is a little bit unfair. Though telling them in front of the entire class that they are losing points is effective, it is also kind of embarrassing for both the student losing points and the student taking the points off. I find however that even though this is a little unfair, the new rules are working out in favor of most of the class.
ReplyDeleteOverall the new class rules are pretty reasonable. However they have their areas where I find them a bit unfair. Having ten points and losing them for interrupting or bad behavior makes sense. It benefits the students who pay attention and are quiet in class. On the other hand they also hurt the students who are quiet and do not talk as much because we now lose points for not participating. I do not think it is as fair to lose points for not answering questions as it is to lose points for talking out of place. For most students the ten points help and it is nice that many students get the ten points for just doing what they always do. For the students who lose the ten points, it is no that hard to follow the directions and get the points so that is on them. Making the loss of points known in the class is more effective than just keeping a tally, but it seems a little unnecessary.
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ReplyDeleteI believe the new rules in class are fair. They make sure that the kids who disrupt or not behave well in class will get points off. For the kids that do behave, it will allow them to get the grade that they deserve. I also think it's fair that we each start with 10 points everyday, a clean slate. My initial reaction was that we would just get points off for being rude or disrupted but now I do get the rules. As class went on and people started getting points off for laughing or smirking, that was a little ridiculous because that wasn't disrupting what the whole class was doing on their own. For the kids that do lose points, that will help them learn that you can't not do your work or shout in class and get away with it. The rules do favor the people in class who are quiet and do their work, but it doesn't favor the kids who are talkative or don't focus on their work in class.
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ReplyDeleteThe upgraded rules in the classroom are extremely reasonable. It is fair to take points away from students who are acting disrespectfully to the class or who do not do what they are supposed to. Every student has ten points a day and a certain amount is taken away when students misbehave. Some students, who have been disruptive, in the class are assigned to students, who haven’t been misbehaving, and that students job is to keep track of the points taken away from that student, and there are points taken away if a student does not participate. This is a very logical way to grade a student’s participation grade. It persuades classmates to behave right and participate often, for a fear of a lower grade as a consequence of not doing so. This does seem, at an angle, slightly unfair to people who are shy and don’t like talking aloud, but there’s still a choice that can be made. There’s no force in this new rule, just consequences for certain actions taken in class. This new rule puts pressure on us as a class to be ideal students, or at least come closer to being one.
I think that the new rules are fair. I believe that if you don't try hard and talk during class or do things that you are not supposed to do, i think that it is appropriate for you to have points taken off of your grade. At first I thought that it would be interesting, because i have never had a teacher give you ten points just for showing up to class on time. Even though you can lose those points, I do not think that the rules to keep them are unreasonable. The people who talk in class and are disruptive or disrespectful will learn from this because they loose points for talking and being disrespectful. Before the new rules were established, those students who talked more than they should had no reason to stop their behavior because there was no deduction/ punishment. Now they have a reason to behave better. The new rules are favorable to the students who behave well and respectfully in class. They will earn the recognition for being respectful in class because before the rules, they did not get recognized above the disrespectful students.
ReplyDeleteI think the new rules you put in place are strict, but fair. As a teacher it is your responsibility to make sure that the class goes along smoothly without any interruptions or distractions, Especially from students. When I first heard about the new rules I didn't mind and I thought it was a good idea. I thought that it would help us as a group stay on task and get more assignments and tasks done. I believe that If a student is willing to disrupt the class and be a distraction to it then as a result they should get points taken off their grade. It is essential that a classroom is kept on a mature and educational level and I think by enforcing these rules it will help keep it that way.
ReplyDeletethe new rules in class in my opinion are not to fair but that might just be because i have had some points subtracted already. but overall i think they are pretty fair and it is teaching us to stop talking and listen. i think that the new rules go on one group because some people talk but never get penalized for it and i always do so i do think it is just pointed on one group but it is still fair.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion the new rules are fair. I believe that the way points are subtracted is fair, but I think that there should be someway for students to earn those points back. Another thing is, that I do not like the idea of having the whole class knowing how someone is doing in the class. I would prefer it if we were able to keep how we were doing to ourselves. Those are the only things that I find to be unfair with the new rules. I like how the system works, and how it is easy to keep track of how we are doing in the class. I like how at the end of the term all the points will be added up and that will be our grade. I like this because it makes it easier for students to see how well they are doing on a day to day bases.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, the new rules are both fair because you only get points taken away when you misbehave or act rude. They are definitely not unfair because the kids that do not show respect to the classroom, other students, or the teacher deserve to lose points. When you first said them I thought the new rules were an excellent idea because if you act respectfully you won't lose points and it is a good way to help students with their grades. One thing that bothers me about them is how open it is to the class, I just wish that other students weren't told to write down when someone loses a point or two because it seems a little unfair. I think grades are personal because they have to do with how one person is doing in that class; and it should not be public to the entire class. The grades should be kept between that one student and the teacher. Besides that one thing I feel that the new grades are going to be very helpful to the grades and student because you know how you are doing and it gives students chances to act responsible. The new rules will be a great improvement for the new term.
ReplyDeleteI believe that these new rules are not fair all the time. I understand how they can be used to try to give discipline to people who interrupt or fool around, but it isn't fair when you get points taken off just for flashing a smile when some one else gets a point off. another way this is unfair is to all the kids who dont talk. They just get to sit there and get an easy ten while others who may just be helping someone with a question are getting points off. I might find them pretty unfair just because I got points taken off, but I do not feel that these rules are good for the class
ReplyDeleteMy first thoughts about the new rules were that it seemed fine because i didnt think points would be taken off from me. You would get 10 points for just showing up to class, that sounded fair to me. Then getting points off for not doing what you were supposed to do. That sounded like it would be fun because you would get points off for stuff like talking and a lot of people talk in class so a lot of people would get points off there grade. But then just two or three people were getting points taken off. It didnt really seem that fair to them because points were being taken off for nothing at all. I seemed nice for the people that werent getting points taken away. But the people that were getting points taken away they didnt like it at all because it was hurting there grade. But the other people were getting hundreds so it didnt seem bad.
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