With technology advancing each day and new systems used in class rooms, it can be difficult for a teacher to expect his or her students to be tech-savy and know how to work these new advances. I would definitely use blogging in a class-room from grade 9 and up. I feel any grade lower than 9th would be a bit too early to expect them to create their own blog account.
However, I don't know exactly what I would assign my student to post on their blogs. But then again, the best thing of blogging is anything can be submitted and posted.
This particular class is one of two in which I've had to submitt responses and assignments on blogs. It was interesting to post papers and ideas in which not only my teacher would read, yet anyone in the world could have access to.
In retrospect to assigning blog posts to a high school class. I think it would be interesting to have students post ideas/ journals responding to a particular question in class, then, just as in english 495, the students would be required to respond to their class mate's posts.
The only concern is how often I would have them do a blog post. Once a week? Once every two weeks? It would have to be a trial and error to find how often this assignment would be enough without seeming overwhelming.
I think for a high school class reading classic literature, good assignments would be a paper (wiher analytical, persuasive, argumentative, explicative, etc), a journal entry or response (to a prompt in class) or a general response to a text. I believe it would be beneficial for the students to respond to eachother's works and bring that into class for discussion.
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ReplyDeleteI would definitely agree, I think having others students post responses to each others blog would be very beneficial as a part of developing their literacy skills. Yeah, it seems that there are many different directions you can take when assigning blogs as part of a written assignment. & yes, definitely would be a way to bring an engaging and creative energy to the classroom once students have responded to their peers that more than likely should spill over into the classroom, making for an interesting discussion.
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