While I use blogs for recreation right now, I would like to find ways of incorporating them into my daily lessons. Any suggestions on how and why it works would be helpful.
We can extend the thinking beyond our classroom doors. Allowing students to blog concerning classroom topics can expand when and where thinking takes place. It can record the thinking for further reflection on each thought. Some students who may not speak up in front of their peers may very well be willing to share their thinking through this format. What else?
blogs/forums use: 1)teachers and/or students gain further insight into a topic - through shared thinking/research 2)a means for students to collaborate research to create study guides, presentations, etc 3)teachers access student understanding of class, see what they are missing, get possible test questions (see what's significant to kids) 4)place for kids to ask questions they have or for teaching to pose out of class questions - that might warrant deeper thinking - and so - more time for response 4)and oh so much more, i'm thinking
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While I use blogs for recreation right now, I would like to find ways of incorporating them into my daily lessons. Any suggestions on how and why it works would be helpful.
We can extend the thinking beyond our classroom doors. Allowing students to blog concerning classroom topics can expand when and where thinking takes place. It can record the thinking for further reflection on each thought. Some students who may not speak up in front of their peers may very well be willing to share their thinking through this format. What else?
blogs/forums use:
1)teachers and/or students gain further insight into a topic - through shared thinking/research
2)a means for students to collaborate research to create study guides, presentations, etc
3)teachers access student understanding of class, see what they are missing, get possible test questions (see what's significant to kids)
4)place for kids to ask questions they have or for teaching to pose out of class questions - that might warrant deeper thinking - and so - more time for response
4)and oh so much more, i'm thinking
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