Tuesday, July 17, 2018
Email Etiquette
After the story Jeff told about his substitute day with the cursive writing debate, I started thinking about email etiquette. Email is used on such a massive scale and yet proper email format is lagging. If technology demands such a move away from the eloquence of the traditional letter, then it is imperative that proper email format be taught. To use technology to implement that at an elementary level, kids could watch a YouTube video on the rules of email formatting. Then, each student would compose an email to another student and sent it to a different student for editing. Once finished, student that did the editing would forward the edited email to the student it was originally written to. Then as a class, the students could create an Instagram account and upload pictures of their properly written emails. This lesson is at the modification level because uses YouTube and a collaborative editing process as well as social media account creation to perform a task that would have originally been given as a handout.
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I love this! Email etiquette is so important, and it isn't taught, and often isn't even modeled by teachers in their communications with students. I remember learning how to write a business letter in elementary school, and even though that's not really a necessary skill anymore, I still remember most of the steps, so it's definitely a practical lesson that can have lasting impact. I wonder, could you have them send emails to members of the community, instead of posting pictures of them on Instagram? Sending thank you notes to policemen or firefighters, or writing the mayor to ask about something that is important to them might pull in more of a redefining element to the lesson. Good work!
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