Blogging can be used for simply reporting
events that are significant to each class to parents, other students, and
people around the world. However, blogs
should be used for more than simple reporting or teaching the skill of
blogging; blogs should extend learning by creating an audience for the learning
and promote reflection.
Blogs can build a community audience
among students, administration, and local or worldwide followers. An audience will motivate the student to
produce quality shared learning.
Students who are more motivated in their learning should think deeper
and should thus lead to a greater understanding.
Blogs promote reflection. A lot of time, student ‘work’ is completed, and
handed in prior to its final recycling fate at the end of the year. Blogs allow for comments to be posted from
whomever views the learning. The
possibility of comments, allows for meaningful reflection, or the initiation of
this reflection development in early primary years. Therefore comments become
the lifeblood of a blog, because if there are no comments the learning might as
well be in a notebook. The things that
can be reflected upon can include photographs, reporting of events, or specific
pieces of work that have been completed in class. Learning journals are one specific
example of what can be blogged.
The skill of blogging should not
replace traditional subjects. Rather it
is used as a reflection tool that will promote further and deeper learning, as
well as foster an audience for the student’s learning.
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A link on commenting for pre and
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