Wow, look at all the resources for the blogs! I really love this one http://supportblogging.com/Links+to+School+Bloggers I'm curious to know how to link other blogs to mine. I imagine this is in future "lessons". It would be great to link the other educators' blogs at my high school as well as facilitate information I find useful on the web. It not only would be useful to share perspectives but ideas for the classroom. Students would naturally gravitate to this type of communication. They are already pros at Facebook, My Space, and IM. Now teachers can assess students with a medium that appeals to the learner.
Imagine asking students to explain how a certain biology concept works or have them make their own study guides for tests. Each person gets one topic to explain in their own words. Or in Language Arts a whole class can discuss and reflect on a literature piece. The possibilities are endless. Students could find web links to certain topics in history, math, etc. and share. You can use this for any content area.
So, what if someone prints inaccurate information on the blog? I think a lot of learning is discerning fact from fiction. How do you know and validate the inconsistencies, half truths, and misrepresentations? I once had a teacher who refused to haggle over test points. If you disagreed with the "correct" answer, you needed to give a written response with proof from the text or another reliable source. This caused me to dig deeper and clarify my own thinking. Is this not true intrinsic learning? Isn't this what we want our students to be able to do as a real world application? I think so :-)
Imagine asking students to explain how a certain biology concept works or have them make their own study guides for tests. Each person gets one topic to explain in their own words. Or in Language Arts a whole class can discuss and reflect on a literature piece. The possibilities are endless. Students could find web links to certain topics in history, math, etc. and share. You can use this for any content area.
So, what if someone prints inaccurate information on the blog? I think a lot of learning is discerning fact from fiction. How do you know and validate the inconsistencies, half truths, and misrepresentations? I once had a teacher who refused to haggle over test points. If you disagreed with the "correct" answer, you needed to give a written response with proof from the text or another reliable source. This caused me to dig deeper and clarify my own thinking. Is this not true intrinsic learning? Isn't this what we want our students to be able to do as a real world application? I think so :-)
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