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.
Thanks for sharing more about yourself and why you chose teaching as your career.
ReplyDeleteYou make some good points about the benefits of blogging. For teachers, also think about how it can be used to help them connect and share ideas with other teachers around the world. That collaboration can be very helpful! On the student side, also consider editing skills, global awareness, connecting to others outside of the class, and Internet safety and etiquette.
It looks like your article required a subscription to finish reading it - here's another one that might be interesting: http://www.bamradionetwork.com/edwords-blog/10-reasons-why-teachers-should-blog
Thanks for sharing your take on blogging in education! I agree that technology is consuming our society. As teachers we should make the most out of an expanding resource, because it can be very beneficial to ourselves and our students.
ReplyDeleteOn the teacher side, you mentioned that blogging is a great way to keep track of progress. I agree with this statement. As a teacher It is very important to stay organized. With all of the extra tasks that come with being a teacher, you need one place where you can keep all of your classroom data. This definitely can help take some of the stress out of your job.
You mentioned in your "about me" section that you want to be an English teacher. I used this article in my blog assignment. It gives the example of a college English professor who asks her her students to complete their assignments in a blog. You should check it out!
https://phys.org/news/2016-09-blogging-classroom-students.html
I totally agree with you that technology is consuming so much of our society and our culture is starting to revolve around it. I would also include in this how blogging for school could help cut down on bullying, as teachers and parents can monitor the students behaviors with one another and correct the unwanted behavior.
ReplyDeleteSomething you may be interested in checking out is http://www.edudemic.com/how-and-why-teachers-should-blog/
It goes over in depth different techniques and why blogging in the classroom is so beneficial.