Post #2 Blogs

Communication has allowed humans to co exist.  Recently through the birth of the internet we are now communicating  on a global scale, allowing humans to come together and work harder, faster, and more efficient than ever before. Internet allows more information at our fingertips than any previous resource. With the internet comes a new tool that we can use in the classroom as educators, blogging.


Blogging can provide many opportunities for learning in our classrooms, having the opportunity to share thoughts and ideas is a big advantage in community learning. Also with students collaborating and sharing ideas in their blogs, students have time to read information, self reflect, and then write as many times as they want to. Doing this allows work to get more work done faster and efficient. For a student researching information out of a book, this might be thought of as boring and motivation levels might be down, but through blogging and the internet students can be more motivated thus increasing more opportunities to work on their reading and writing skills. Teachers can use blogs to communicate with their students on assignments, and provide examples through links, saving paper and other costly expenses that normal classroom work has. 

The rest of the world is moving toward getting work done at extremely fast pace. With blogging as a tool in the classroom we are teaching our students some skills necessary to compete at the global the global level.