Blogging in Education

Technology is becoming a bigger and bigger part of our society as time passes. Children are given iPads as infants and toddlers, laptops and computers are readily available for students of all ages to use, and iPhones are often given as birthday presents to kids in middle school and sometimes even younger. Technology is taking over the world, and education is not immune to that movement. Technology can be incredibly beneficial to students, parents of students, and teachers in many ways.

Blogging helps teachers by not only connecting them to parents, but by tracking their progress in class. Not only can parents see what is happening in class, teachers can also go back and see what happened in the past. Progress tracking is important to teachers. They can see how projects have done in the past years and try them again in the years to come. They can also look back on earlier in the same year and see how much the students have improved since the beginning of the year.

Additionally, students can benefit greatly from blogging. An article written by Ben Curran of Editorial Projects in Education talks about how blogging can better the writing skills of students. The article mentions that teachers already have students write journals and have fellow students comment on them, but now they can do that online. Furthermore, blogging gives students the chance to express themselves in a unique way. Blogging can help students improve their digital literacy and creativity. They can gain confidence by publishing their works.

Blogging is very advantageous to the classroom as a whole, and I hope that you embrace it as much as I am willing to.

Article: Curran, Ben. "How Blogging Can Improve Student Writing." Education Week Teacher. N.p., 29 Apr. 2016. Web. 22 Feb. 2017.