Asher Nagy
3/12/17
ETEC-106
Pr. Smith
There many ways teachers can use blogs to either help kids who fall behind or help kids get ahead. At the very least it can keep kids stay engaged who are not interested in class or school. Most young people understand how technology or blogs works and have been using them for a long time as it is. Therefore it is not unreasonable to assume they are literate in them. Blogs are a great medium for an electronic written work to be scrutinized or accounted for. This can help children stay accountable and use technology to complete assigned work by a teacher and perhaps one day a boss. Teachers have a number of ways to integrate technology into the education of a child. Blogging is one of them.
A blog is short for web log. Writing was the main source for information to be dispersed discussed or reviewed in the past and blogging is just its current form. Blogging is used to write discuss and educate its subscribers about literally anything. A teacher can use blogging to assign an essay or discussion. These written works can then be submitted and reviewed online for critiquing or simply accountability. Normally an essay is submitted and a teacher must grade it by hand which can be time consuming. Even if a rough draft is submitted usually the next time it is given back is the next class 24-48 hours. The more technology can enable students and educators to solve problems and maximize time, the better. The more students write or exchange data, the more teachers can correct errors. Technology is used all the time to facilitate more routine tasks. Why not use it to enable teachers to spend more time on students' needs or deficits?
As it was mentioned before technology can be used to save time. When a student who is engaged needs help with a simple question a teacher is there to respond quickly maximizing the time spent on helping the student with minimal effort. This critical time difference could mean that a student understands a topic much sooner and master a skill before a quiz or deadline.
Another way blogs are used in classrooms is to publish basic information about the class, updates and corrections about an assignment. When a teacher uses blogs in their classroom it is not always the teacher that answers a classroom question. Blogs are used everyday by students to help other students. Sometimes it makes them more candid to share a problem they feel makes them look bad. Peer assistance can help a student understand that they are not dumb they are just encountering a problem that every student encountered and had trouble with. That is, until they talked to each other. This networking is one of the goals of education: participation. Blogs accomplish another one of the four goals of education which is; frequent interaction and feedback.
References
https://www.edutopia.org/blog/blogging-in-21st-century-classroom-michelle-lampinen
https://elearningindustry.com/how-to-use-blogs-in-the-classroom
https://ed.stanford.edu/news/technology-can-close-achievement-gaps-and-improve-learning-outcomes
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