Sunday, June 7, 2009

Blogging in US Classrooms #1

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/19/technology/circuits/19blog.html?ex=1250654400&en=df535dc1863105e8&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt
This article starts out talking about a second grade field trip to an Indian park, and instead of their teacher leading a classroom discussion on what they experienced she instructed them to blog about it. The teacher reported that blogging seems to level the playing field, those students that are shy and quite during classroom discussions come alive on their blogs. Blogging allows the students to continue what was being discussed in class if the discussion was cut short. They report that it allows the student to interact much faster. It really sounds like these students are well on their way to a cyber education.

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