Chapter 15- Parents as Partners in Twenty-First-Century Learning

I agree with using technology to keep parents on the same page. It can be so helpful for parents to see on my wiki when everything will be due; then they or the student can click on a link to view the assignment when the want to read more detail or know the assignment if they have lost their sheet. That won’t be an excuse for not getting the work in anymore! This type of learning will also allow me to send things like parent teacher conferencing sign-ups right to parents via he internet instead of relying of the student to take the slips home, remember to give them to the parents, and then remember to hand them back in on time. By just doing this with parents over the internet, it would be faster for both of us and conferences could be planned quicker. Yet is it a good thing for students to be taken out of this process? Perhaps it helps them learn responsibility and how to do an assigned task that is important to a deadline, well in advance of that deadline.
I also liked the postcard idea that this chapter mentioned. I think that for those parents that don’t have the internet, it will be important for me to send postcards letting parents know when their students are doing a good job. Just so that I have some positive interaction with parents, and students do come to hate when school related items show up in the mail. If they read my postcard before the parents get home, they will be ecstatic to show their parents the good news and they will be proud of it, not hiding it somewhere before parents arrive home.