Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Start 'em young
The more I look through other teachers blogs the more I think to myself that this is completely possible. I also think that the younger students start using technology and the more comfortable they become. On the blog Powerful learning Practice Wright details the importance of blogging and discusses how blogging is becoming the new persuasive writing tool for children. This is a new perspective that I haven't heard before, yet, I completely agree. Blogging for children is about their ability to share their knowledge and personal opinion about a topic. When students are young they do not know that they are persuading their readers to think in a certain way. Yet, it is a good skill for them to start using young.
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Thanks for the link to Powerful learning Practice- I liked when he said: "Teach whatever you teach for Language Arts, or other subjects, but include a blog component." It definately challenges what I thought a couple weeks ago about having too much technology in the classroom. I am becoming a true believer that the youngest learners are the most important ones to involve with technology.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great link...never thought of blogging as a new way for children to persuade their readers to think in a certain way. I think it's great that so many young children are able to use technology in so many ways because honestly, today's children will be the leaders of the future. Clearly, technology will be the way the world is run in the future, so the earlier they learn, the better off they are. That being said, it seems like the biggest challenge in today's world is providing teachers with the opportunities to learn how to integrate technology into the classroom on a day to day basis.
ReplyDeleteI completely agree with Cassandra and Nada- it is our youngest students that will benefit from technology integration with learning. In another class I am researching the effects of technology on higher-order thinking skills. I have also become a "believer" as I research and learn more about how the higher levels of cognition development require students to be the ones generating, while the teachers need to do more facilitating. It seems that blogging and other technologies are the vessel that education will use to aid students in acquiring these skills.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you as well. Blogging is a great tool for persuasive writing. I just started a blog with my 6th graders and I've found that they LOVE writing their opinion about events in the book we are reading and what is "really" happening in the novel we're reading. Their responses are already getting better as well!
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