At a ceremony to honor excellence in education blogging yesterday, winners of the first-ever eSchool News “Best of the Education Blog” Awards talked about the significance of blogging in education during a panel discussion. All agreed: The impact that blogging is having on teaching and learning is profound.
Some of the quotes which I find useful/interesting as I scan the report:
- “Kids are getting excited and engaged in literacy through blogging, commenting, and sharing ideas”
- There is an excitement that comes from writing for a real, authentic audience instead of a circular file seen only by the teacher
- Our students are tech-savvy, and we need to make sure we take advantage of this
- today’s digital tools make blogging extremely easy, especially when compared with the effort it used to take to upload files online via the File Transfer Protocol or build a web page using Hypertext Markup Language
- Sharing ideas with the world today is “so easy,” Fryer said. “Now, it doesn’t take anything but a web browser to engage in these conversations.
- You shouldn’t ban the use of an instructional tool such as blogs, simply because it might be dangerous if misused; instead, you should teach students about the proper–and safe–use of the tool and then enforce the rules.
The full article goes here.
[source: eSN online]