Bloggin'

I learned an amazing amount about weblogs and using the internet just by reading Will Richardson's book. It seems as though this technology class could survive with just his book and website. Technology will be extremely useful in teaching literacy to students in today's classroom. What more could students ask for than to be assigned to do something they might enjoy. I like the idea of letting them choose a topic and research it and then go and blog about it. Students would also be interacting with each other on their blogs.

Another great idea was a paperless classroom. I could certainly see myself using this method of blogging. In this case, there would be a class blog and students would have to post all assignments. On this blog, peer review would occur as well as the teacher commenting on posted assignments and drafts. According to research, the majority of teens are blogging already. Now, what we need to do as teachers is to motivate our students to blog about things that can expand their minds and get them to think critically and creatively.