Week 3 - Blogs in Schools

Pluses

1. Enhances communication and relationship between students and teachers.
2. Opens up opportunities to make learning relevant through interaction with professionals.
3. Students are motivated to write "authentic, credibly and accurately".
4. Creates meaning in learning through reflecting using own blog and interacting with others' blogs.
5. Students take ownership of their learning.
6. Improved writing skills through practice.
7. The diversity and range of uses for blogs means this is a useful tool.

Minuses

1. Uses higher order thinking - not appropriate for every student
2. In itself, blogs aren't automatically a learning experience, but a space for constructed learning when used properly by the teacher.

Interesting

1. Blogs are useful in scaffolding reflections of own learning.