What do you think about using blogs? What and how do you think blogs would be useful for education? Some people think using blogs in classrooms is a waste of students’ time. How would you respond?
Personally, I think that blogs would be an excellent tool to use in the classroom. Not only does it provide a posting board and repository for a teacher's assignments and the students, it also allows for public communication of ideas and interaction from the safety of cyberspace and from their homes. It also allows students to become familiar with interaction online, which is a useful skill considering how much communication is done over the intertubes.
As to those who think that blogs are a waste of time, I can see where they can think that. Blogs are typically viewed as places for idle chit-chat about 'unimportant matters', or they feel that teaching is better done in a face-to-face environment. While I value face-time with a teacher, I would respond that sometimes it's easier to go to a teacher's blog and read assignments there, or leave comments in a discussion thread. There's a lot of use for blogs, outside of opinion logs and fan sites, after all, and we would be fools to not use all the tools at our disposal.
voicethread
17 years ago
